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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01370	The amorous travellers, or, The night-adventures written originally in Spanish by a person of honour. Translated into French by the exquisite pen of the Sieur Deganes, and into English by J.B.; Engaños deste siglo y historia sucedida en nuestros tiempos. English	Loubayssin de Lamarca, Francisco.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.; Ganes, sieur de.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3021AB; ESTC R224365	80,867	226

and so always esteemed by those that saw him and his wit and address joyned to the boldness which Love infused into him made him every way so complete that I question whether Achilles made a better Girl when he courted King Lycomedes his Daughter in that Habit or whether Jupiter took a better shape when he enjoyed his Calisto in that of Diana Don Carlos was sent by the Duke his Father at the age of sixteen to study at Osmus an University whose Learning that flourisheth there has made it sufficiently known throughout Spain In this place lived Donna Margareta's Father whose House was directly opposite to Don Carlos his Lodgings who the first time he saw her appear through the Window more beauteous than the Sun rising from the East quickly became amorous of her and it was needless for Love to represent the charms of her Beauty a second time because at this first view he became so smitten that he yielded up his Liberty to her disposal sacrificing his Heart to his fair Deity Time and Necessity the mother of Diligence and Love the Mistriss of Invention gave means to our new Lover to discover his Affections to Donna Margareta who no less sensible than he of the wounds of Love accepted the tender of his Service and gave him her Heart in exchange These Amours continued still encreasing by degrees whilst none perceived them but at last their passion so far augmented that it was impossible to conceal it any longer and they having no other remedy but a free enjoyment for those pleasing Flames that consumed their Hearts resolved to come to the point to which all Lovers tend which they had accordingly done had they not been interrupted by the following misfortune Don Carlos his Tutor perceiving amongst others his new Affection thought fit to reveal it to his Father to avoid bearing the blame of his Pupil's fault for so now a days we term the Love of the Rich to their Inferiors in Estate which with the Ancients was the least thing considered amongst Treaties of Marriage who set a far higher value upon Vertue than Money For what greater happiness can a man enjoy however highly he be advanced in Fortunes favour than in stead of the dross of temporal Riches to enjoy a Woman rich in the more pure ones of Wit and Vertue which hath been the chief accomplishment desired in a Wife even by the most Barbarous Nations Don Carlos his Father violently startled at the news of these Amours took Post immediately to break them and in a short time arrived at Osmus just time enough to prevent the Marriage which was then upon point of celebration This was to them as it happens to a Pilot who being come even in view of the Harbour desired and thereby free from suspecting a stop or mishap finds himself suddenly by the violence of Winds and fury and impetuosity of the Waves driven to a Haven which of all others he would have avoided Even so our Lovers sped for the Duke coming after he had sharply chid his Sons offence in the neglect of his Duty and contracting Marriage without his Fathers consent for his Penance he enjoyn'd him two years Exile in Flanders judging and indeed rightly that nothing but absence was able to cure his Sons distemper After which he reproached the Father of Donna Margareta for going about to make a Match so unequal and injurious to him as that of his Daughter with the Dukes Son Don Pedro that was the name of Donna Margareta's Father excused himself saying that this was the first time he ever heard of it and that he was infinitely sorry his Children should be the occasion either of displeasing or incommoding him since none was more his Servant than he But Sir continued he be pleased somewhat to undeceive your self for there is perhaps no such inequality in it as you suppose for though you be Duke I am a Gentleman of so good a House that my Ancestors have no reason to give place to yours either in Nobility Vertue or Merits but rather in some things have much the advantage for some of them have governed the Kingdom of Castile with Name and Dignity of Vice-Roys which under favour Sir is more than I suppose yours could boast of These words so provoked the Duke that he laid hold on his sword to revenge the injury upon Don Pedro who likewise drew his to defend himself and if some Cavaliers their Friends had not opportunely arrived to part them there had undoubtedly some mischief ensued But all things being appeased they separated the one home and the other with his Son Don Carlos to conduct him into Flanders Don Pedro to stop the mouth of the ignorant Vulgar which is always readier to defame than to praise any one from uttering words to his Daughters disadvantage resolved to marry her which he did snottly after through a Friends means with Don Sebastian who is at present the Subject of this Narration Don Carlos had not yet finish'd the first year of his Exile when a Courrier from his Mother brought him news of his Fathers death ordering him upon receit of that Letter to take Post and return speedily for Spain Whether he received this news joyfully or no I am not certain and am as unwilling to discover my Conjectures in these lines because a natural shame proper to all good Christians restrains my Hand and stops my Pen and makes me confess that nothing ought to be put in parallel with the Love of our Parents though Love hath so absolute and puissant an Empire over the Soul that in former Ages we may read and in our own see many horrid Examples of the most inhumane and bloody faults that Humane Nature is capable to invent exercised with the greatest Barbarity imaginable upon their own Blood to satisfie the bruitish appetite which this furious passion excites in them which are possessed with it and yield up themselves to the rule of its Tyranny Though Don Carlos suitable to Cavaliers of his Age and Constitution had contracted new Amours since his being in Flanders yet now seeing his way so plain and all the difficulties removed which not long before combated his designs all obstacles now being buried in the Grave of his Father however engaged in other promises of Love in Flanders his inconstant humour continually brought into his fancy the memory of Donna Margareta which represented her to him with the same perfections she before possessed which so redoubled his ardent desire for her backed with the consideration of the delights and joys they had formerly interchanged that he resolved to marry her and to quit his interest in any that could claim a title to his Affections in Flanders Thus resolved he left Bruxells without taking leave of any one and transported with the hopes of seeing Donna Margareta he made such a quick dispatch of his Journey that he arrived at his own home in less than fifteen days where he staid only to

of his good Service To discover himself to his Mistris and beg her pardon he durst not and to steal away without her knowledge he was afraid she might discover it in the morning by some innocent raillery with her Husband upon the passages of that night and by that means unwittingly discover that which could not come into open air without his Life to accompany it These fearful apprehensions did so perplex his soul that it was an even wager whether his past pleasure or present fear were greater till the former found means to dissipate the later by the invention of this following Stratagem Donna Margareta had a Waiting-woman for Beauty and Parts much exceeding most of her rank who had a most signal love for this Page whose gratitude joyned with her merits wrought in him a reciprocal affection testified by his caresses to her the most endearing his fancy or affection could afford Their Master had had intelligence of these Amours who being desirous to keep his Family clear of such Vices though you cannot but find how negligent he was to begin with himself had under the strictest penalties forbidden the continuance of this familiarity or a further privity in their Amours suspecting their designs in those affairs to tend to the same end with his Valerio so was our Page called endeavouring to cloke this present fault by one which was already but too well known would undeceive his Mistris in that affair which would be the ruine of them both if discovered to his Master by her ignorance and finding her more than ordinarily astonish'd and altogether silent embracing her more straitly than before he first broke silence speaking to her as if he had meant it to another I durst never hope dearest Chimena this was the Girl 's name so happy a reception from thee searing that our Master's threats had ere this rooted out of thy heart all the affection there planted for me But since I see thy affection so immovable said he and sealed it with a kiss believe me my dear Soul that if nothing less could purchase thy embraces than the passing a more dangerous Straight than that which Leander stemm'd to enjoy his beloved Hero the reward I receive in possessing thee would make the attempt the most inconsiderable thing imaginable But what is the matter said he again reiterating his kisses my dearest Life Why art thou silent Or whence proceeds this astonishment Knowest thou not that thy Companion though she may perhaps have espied our secrets is the faithful Secretary of our Amours and would as soon die as discover them On the other side our Master altogether ignorant of what has passed now finds himself happy in the enjoyment of that lovely Girl thou sawest wait at Table the last night As for our Mistris there is no fear of her who poor Lady is at present fast asleep little suspecting the Treason of her ingrateful Husband With these and such like words often interrupted by the kisses and embraces he gave her without leaving any part of her lovely face untouched by his lips she easily found this was not her Husband At these last words the poor Lady remained more astonished at her Husbands miscarriage and her own misfortune than Alcmena of old when Jupiter had enjoyed her under the form of Amphitryo But seeing there was no remedy and that if by so strange an accident she had broken her faith and bonds of Marriage the fault lay not on her side but that all ought to be imputed to her Husband to whom God would give the just chastisement of his sin by the same means by which he offended others she then taking a Pendant from her ear which she had forgot to lay by at her going to bed put it in his hand saying as low as she could Take this Pendant bold young man by which to morrow morning thou wilt perceive the Treason thou hast acted against thy Master Upon this the Page without reply left her Chamber to hasten to his own where arriving without being seen by any one he shut the door after him and void of those joys or fears he found with his former Bedfellow laid down by his Camerade who had slept all the while like a Dormouse his joy being thus doubly augmented by the thoughts of having enjoyed so eminent a Beauty and avoided so evident a danger like a Slave who in stead of undergoing a miserable Captivity till the payment of his Ransom finds his Liberty advantageously restored by the augmentation of a mass of Treasure And what more immense riches or more grand felicity could one imagine to give so complete a satisfaction to a Youth of the age of our fortunate Valerio than the sweet embraces of so complete a Beauty as our Donna Margareta Also this spruce young Blade being of an excellent humour did acknowledge the incomparable engagement he had to Fortune for so signal a favour and forgetting the peril he before endured he would willingly have dared the Rocks and Waves in the same Vessel in which his Heart was now embarked if he could but promise himself to find another so favourable reception Donna Margareta considering Valerio's ready wit and comely stature his beauteous complexion and admirable discretion was so far from being displeased at what was past that she preferr'd her Revenge far before her Honour rejoycing that she had thus quitted scores with her faithless Husband whom she attended every moment But seeing the Captain of her Fort came not she accused her own indiscretion for having dismiss'd so valiant a Lieutenant who was now endeavouring to recruit by a profound sleep the strength he had lost in his former service Let us leave him sleeping and her also to vail her sparkling eyes with her lovely eye-lids and let us return to our Don Sebastian who in the mean time suffers under a Bed miseries enough to balance the pleasures he had enjoyed upon it for the reasons you shall understand in the ensuing Chapter CHAP. II. DOn Sebastian had not yet pass'd two hours with his beauteous Catalina but her Husband came knocking at the further Gaie of the Inn close by the Stables which was too far from his Wifes Bed-chamber for the noise to approach her ears He did not knock there long for the Ostler who lay over the Stable heard him the first stroke and had let him in before he needed to make a second Being entred he only took off his Portmanteau and recommended his Horse to the Ostlers care and taking a Candle went directly to his Wifes Chamber where our two Lovers were bound in stronger chains than those that ensnated Mars and the Queen of Love He knocked twice or thrice at the door but the Wife who was just then in the height of her speed at her delicious exercise was not at leisure to answer him but like a Woman of good forecast in affairs resolved not to begin another till she had finish'd what she was about At last hearing

wonder Sir your eyes should be so dim as not to see the Sovereign Beauty you speak of having her so near you that is she that is just now entring the Yard whom you are so desirous should accompany your Niece which I suppose may easily be compassed for I guess you go all one way I know not answered the Cavalier whethe Lady will agree to it Donna Margareta who had over-heard their Discourse answered Yes Sir and I shall take it for a great honour At least Madam replied the Cavalier you will find in the Lady that comes along with me a Sister not onely in Beauty and good Grace but also in her desire to serve you and in me an humble Servant On the contrary Sir replied Donna Margareta you and she shall find me ready to serve you upon all occasions And if my Beauty do not equal that of the young Lady your Niece yet I will so far endeavour to make amends in the conformity of my will to hers that her desires and mine shall be the same For me and my Niece said the Cavalier I promise you that we will strive by our behaviour in this Journey to let you see that our chiefest study shall be to please you Upon this Donna Margareta took leave of him to go see if her Husband were awake without giving leave to the Cavalier to renew his obliging language onely making him the civillest obeisance she could Donna Margareta entring her Chamber found her Husband awake and ready to arise whereupon she told him all she had seen and the good Company she had met with to ease the troubles of the remaining Journey Don Sebastian was hugely pleased at his Wifes Discourse principally when she exagerated the Beauty of her that was so desirous of her company and wish'd that Time's Wings were a little swifter he longed so to see this Lady whom his Wife had painted to him with so advantageous a Discourse He arose very joyful of the contentment which he hoped for from this new Company which put Wings to his haste in making himself ready telling his Wife that his Head-ach had left him and that he found himself so lively that he should think himself unworthy of that blessing if he did not testifie his gratitude and satisfaction by putting on the most sumptuous of his Apparel and that besides it was fit he should appear something extraordinary in such noble Company to make himself appear in the lustre his Condition required It this design of changing his Sute occasioned this Discourse the loss of his Cloke as you have heard made him desirous to accomplish it the better to conceal his last-nights debauche So that leaving his former Habit he took another very gentile one and asked his Wife how it became him who told him very well which pleased him extremely So taking leave of her for half an hour he went to Mass CHAP. II. DOn Sebastian was no sooner gone out of the Chamber to hear Mass but Don Sancho and Donna Leonora for so were our new Guests named came in to visit Donna Margareta who was then discoursing with Chimena her Maid about what they had seen in the Church After Complements passed on the one part and the other they sate down and passed betwixt themselves all the time till Don Sebastian returned from Mass entertaining one another with words so charming that none but those two could have made such Complements with so good a grace and with such gentile reparties as passed betwixt them in this first encounter and those expressed with so brave an air that one would have thought that Love had given them his Artifice to ravish the hearts of all the Hearers These Entertainments lasted pretty long till Donna Margareta calling to mind a Person whom she had formerly loved as dearly as her life and whose Portraicture she fancied she saw drawn to the life in the Face of Donna Leonora could not speak so discreetly as before nor give such sharp or subtle replies to Donna Leonora who asked her a thousand questions for her fancy was so fixed on that dear object that it had no room left for other concerns Donna Leonora knew but dissembled her knowledge of the disorder of her spirit and not seeming to take notice of it rising up and taking her by the hand she said Madam 't is a general Rule That to Persons who enjoy a great contentment the time seems so speedy that though they continued a whole Age in that felicity it would all seem to have slipp'd away in a moment At this time I have had a full Experiment of the verity of this Assertion for though effectually I have had a large enjoyment of your sweet Conversation yet methinks I am but just entring upon the brinks of that delight Wherefore Madam said she with a low obeisance I hope you will pardon me if I have been troublesom in this my first Visit which is the first and greatest happiness I have received of Fortune in making me happy in the knowledge of so deserving a Lady And as Donna Margareta was desiring her to sit down again and with a thousand caresses to let her know the content and honour she took it for to be visited by a Lady of her quality upon this Don Sebastian entred who seeing his Wife in so good company he being a complete Courtier accosted them the best he could and with very great civility Donna Leonora returned him hers very gracefully with whose Beauty he was infinitely charmed and fancied to himself he never saw a more complete one They began anew their Entertainment and in less than an hour all their four humours were so exactly conformable and in so much pleasure and contentment that after the communicating of one anothers Affairs and the causes of their Journeys they contracted amongst themselves an inviolable Friendship as you may remark in the Sequel of this History And for this happy encounter which every one of them had made they resolved to stay there that day which they intended to spend in Sports and Pastimes The pretty Catalina did not fail in employing her utmost dexterity amongst them in their Plays and Dances but Don Sebastian had his mind so firmly fixed upon a more worthy Subject that he had no room for admiring her excellencies though all the rest did highly esteem them Donna Margareta who fancied that she saw in Donna Leonora the lively Image of one who had formerly captivated her Affections revolved in her mind the continual thoughts of their former Amours and the contentments which she and her Lover had formerly enjoyed The heaviness and trouble which feised her at the remembrance of so sweet forepast joys wrought in her the secret Discourses following O happy time in which I enjoyed the sight of my adored Don Carlos O fortunate season Would God that losing the enjoyment of so delicious a pleasure as I was blessed with during thy short hours in the company of so dear a Person