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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40460	The French King proved a bastard: or The amours of Anne (Queen to Lewis XIII.) With the Chevalier de Roan.		1691 (1691)	Wing F2185B; ESTC R215126	36,033	59

Queens Divertisement and which so ingeniously related discovered a Treasury of that rich Wit and Sense in the accomplish'd Chevalîer as could not but plume new Darts from this new Quiver and heighten the impending Fatality of those more and more dangerous Charms which were before but too mortal The Cardinal in the mean while considering how requisite it would be for himself to act in conjunction with Father Joseph in the Religious Attack upon the Queen the great Church-battery to be planted against her not doubting his own Ability in furnishing a great many sinewy and forcible Arguments the necessary Artillery towards it and yet on the other side reflecting on his own known Rancour and Revenge against Orleans he finds himself a very unqualified Orator on that Theme For in spight of all the pretended fair Face of Zeal and Religion designed for their purpose he is but too sensible that the Queens piercing Judgment will discover the Vizer and detect the rooted and gangreen'd malice at the bottom But for wise prevention of all this he instantly resolves upon this Expedient viz. by Father Joseph and other private Agents to have the Monsieur recalled to Court and himself to appear so cool so easie and indeed so gall-less in the remission of so heinous an Affront as shall utterly stifle all suspicion of the least remaining Dreg of Spight or Resentment against him Accordingly the next News we hear is the Return of the Monsieur His Banishment so gently repeal'd without either Pardon ask'd or the least Atonement or Submission made that the hushing up of so noisie a Storm in so sudden and unexpected a Calm is the Subject of universal wonder insomuch that the whole Conduct of the tame-forgiving Cardinal herein much to their astonishment appeared more agreeable to the meekness of a cloistered Saint than the Spirit of a State Church-man and so publickly resounded his more than Christian Moderation and Lenity as his Revenge could not well have its Cloven Foot better covered All things carried on thus plausibly the indefatigable Engineer Parisatis has so often gain'd the Chevalier those near and familiar Accesses to the Queen that new Fewel is added to the old Fire and the poor Quen comes big with a sad and lamentable Account of her Female Weakness to her Confessor Her Confession makes a Relation of that dismal Violence committed upon her Heart by the more and more prevailing Influence of her bold and formidable Incroacher as requires no small expiatiory Contrition Our well-pleased Joseph who had it been yet time to speak would have told her it had been more her Vertue than her Sin however takes a very gentle cognizance of her Frailty and gives her so easie an Absolution that by the cheapness of her present Balm in Gilead the Queen had good reason to believe that her Offence if his Ghostly Spectacles saw true was not altogether so frightful as her own over-prying Terrors of Conscience had presented it The Capuchin immediately posts to the Cardinal and gives him at large the whole pain of the Queen and the full Dimensions of her opening Wound her whole Confession having disclosed that radicated and invincible Passion for the Chevalier that to lose no time they think the Iron full hot for striking and if if she be ever malleable 't is now 'T is resolved therefore that the Cardinal and his trusty Joseph shall presently desire a private Audience of the Queen and prepare for a general Storm Such a private Conference by Persons so high in her esteem is no sooner ask'd but obtain'd where the Cardinal with a Gravity suitable to the occasion very eloquently by way of Introduction makes a long Harangue upon the Happiness of those Kingdoms where the Smiles of Providence have blest the Royal Bed with Heirs to Empire recounting several Instances from History in divers parts of the World of the establishment of the Peace and Glory of Nations founded and secured upon that only Basis of their Felicity hinting several unfortunate examples of Crowns devolving upon Collateral Lines and the publick Feuds and fatal Troubles arising from that unhappy Cause From this Topick he begins very artfully to condole the like unhappiness of Lewis in Defect of Issue from the Illustrious A 's Veins insinuating also the like impending misfortune of France from that National Calamity the present Childless Bed of Lewis telling her how much the whole Kingdom groaned under that Affliction and what inexpressible Delight and Transport they would receive if Heaven even yet would hear the Prayers of an Age and relieve the Distresses of a People in opening that Gate to their Bliss as late as it was and as long shut as it had been by raising them a Branch from so Divine and so dear a Sovereign Stock The Queen who yet fathom'd not their Depth was pleased modestly to reply That she was highly obliged both to his and her Peoples kind wishes But as the immutable Will had otherwise ordained they must all acquiesce in the Divine Pleasure and cease those fruitless Prayers which Heaven had now too manifestly decreed should be in vain Decreed Madam replyed the Capuchin very passioonately Kind Heaven forbid No Madam if the Divine A a would look down with an Eye of Mercy upon a mourning Kingdom we have no reason to distrust but Providence would pity where you pityed And since the Almighty Dispensation as high and as great a First-mover as it is has not so wholly assum'd the entire care of Mankind to it self but in a high measure has remitted the Attainment of some Blessings to inferiour and second-moving Causes And though our Worldly Felicities are truly all formed for us above however there must be that humane co-operating Study and Industry the effective Means of receiving them And since as we have too long and too just Reason with anguish of Soul and fulness of sorrow to lament we your nearest and faithfullest Servants are but too sensible of a drooping Kingdoms Loss and the true and only defective cause of their long Infelicity my Lord Cardinal that zealous and pious good Man and learned Prelate with my unworthy self are sent to you commission'd from the Divine Authority to open your Ears to the Cries of a Nation and in the everlasting Name to soften your Compassion into that Maternal Care of France as may raise up her languishing Head and establish her Welfare Tranquility and Honour to endless Generations Yes Royal Madam proceeded the Cardinal With that Divine Authority and for that great purpose we are come your Suppliants beseeching your Attention to those cordial and faithful Admonitions which as Ambassadors of Truth we are emboldned to lay down before you under the Warrant and Credentials of that Heavenly Command that sends us Ah Madam if the languishing Flower-de-Lisses a wailing Kingdoms Tears and an Empires waning Glory could move you to Commiseration propitious Heaven might yet raise that blest Fruit from these Illustrious Veins as one day shall

adorn the Gallick Throne an Heir that my Prophetick Soul foretels shall Reign a Hero upon Earth and shine a Saint in Heaven But oh the misery the incomprehensible misery that the Royal Chanel in the unhappy Lewis should be so totally block'd up that our kneeling Vows must look up to some new Sourse of Providence for so Divine a Blessing Consider Gracious Lady how the natural Orb of Glory is totally shaded and let your pitying Goodness supply some borrowed Luminary or all the Light of France must set for ever Nor let any sudden Fantom for 't is only Fantom from this shocking sound assame a shape to fright you For I assure you I come a Minister of Light and not an Imp of Darkness and bear a shining Lamp of Heaven and not a sooty Brand of Hell before you No Madam to answer even to your most ghastly Fears and dispel the Gorgon for I cannot make too plain a Scrutiny into so nice a point of Conscience Consider Madam that the terriblest of Sins Adultry being a Command within the second Table of the Law is only so far a Violation of the Divine Ordinance as it is a Breach of our Duty or a wrong to our Neighbour The true Adultress is the Defiler of her Nuptial Bed in the Invasion of her Husbands Right But alas that horrid Blemish will no ways touch the Innocence of A a For a Right cannot be invaded before a Right possess'd As hallowed as the Matrimonial Bond and as inviolable as the Conjugal Bed should be it is not the Sacred Words alone before the Altar that tie that Bond and make that Conjugal Knot so uninfringible but the stronger consummating Seal of Matrimony If any personal Defect renders that Consummation impossible and indeed Marriage it self under any such personal known defect is rather a Privarication with God than an Holy Sacrament the Matrimonial Obligation is of it self so invalid that the Law lies open to null it with a Breath and every days common Process can dissolve it I confess could any Vows Oblations Prayers or Sacrifices prevail to obtain this inestimable Bliss to the up-raising a despairing Kingdom by an Heir from Lewis my Soul would tremble at so unhallowed a Motion as this then would be and sink my blushing Face in dust at the horror of so tremendous an Imagination But since the fatal Wants of the lamented Lewis have barricadoed even the least Glimps of Light out and excluded all our Hopes from thence what Injury what Injustice to Lewis can the Fair A a commit What private Violation of her Shackles and Fetters for such rather than her Hymeneal Tyes I must call 'em can she make especially under so urgent a call when even those Shackles she may publickly in the Face of the World by the Laws of God and Man utterly unbind cancel and throw off if foolish worldly Honour that by long prevailing Custom has laid a popular Stain on such a preceeding would permit so reproachful though so highly legal a Separation Besides Madam were there a shadow of a Fault or any remaining unsatisfied Scruple against the Sacred Counsel I have given you consider that when Extraordinary Occasions call Heaven has permitted the use of Extraordinary Instruments and so warrantable have those Extraordinary Instruments been that the Divinity it self has laid down Patterns and Precedents even of its own exemplar Conduct under the same Dispensation Look back Madam but to the Creation of the World and you will see the first Original of Mankind raised even by incestuous Beds a Generation betwixt Brother and Sister And though at the same time we must own that the unlimited Almighty Power had the inscrutable Wisdom so thought fit could have otherwise Peopled the World yet such was his Decree that even that which his first delivered Law proscribed and condemned as so black and deformed was nevertheless by Himself under his own dispencing Pleasure for Necessity with Omnipotence is incompatible made the very corner Stone to that fair Fabrick the Race of Men the Image of Himself And if Madam so universal a dispencing Power was exercised for the Benefit of Mankind shall one singular Distencing Act for the Benefit of a whole Nation be Capital especially where that Dispensation infringes no Law Violates no Right and breaks no Command as has so fully been proved to your Majesty Alas Madam 't is the Intention makes the Sin the Gratification of a Lust may be Criminal whilst the Preservation of a Kingdom shall be righteous and unblameable But perhaps Madam you may have some little Tenderness to the Pretensions of the present Expectant Heirs of France and nicely think the Diverting of Succession a Trespass upon their Birthright No Royal Madam stagger not your Royal Reason there Examine but the Conduct and Practice of Imperial Policy in imumerable Examples How many of the Great Roman Cesars have Adopted Sons to Inherit I may say even the Empire of the World for such was then the Roman Greatness And if Adopted Heirs utter Aliens and Strangers to the Blood were so publickly let in to rise up in Bar of all the nearest Imperial Demandants and so notorious an Exclusion of Lineal Right justified by those strict and critical Observers of Meral Justice the Roman Administrators how much more Righteous will an Adoption to the Crown of France appear when so far from an Alien it shall challenge at least half the Royal Title the Rich Veins of the fair Partner of the Throne the Sacred A a And the other Additional borrowed part only a charitable Supply of Indigence and support of Weakness Alas Madam cryed the interposing Joseph let me do the noble Cardinal this right as to avow that not a prophecying Martyr could have delivered more oraculous Truths than the Profound and Divine Reason he has uttered Yes Madam replied the Cardinal what I have uttered has been delivered in the Spirit of Truth and Fidelity without a Taint or Sully of the least malicious or sinister Thought I confess indeed I have received Wrongs from Orleans and perhaps crying ones But so forgive me Heaven as I have forgiven him and that I speak the Sincerity of my Soul the Eternal Witness can bear Record for me Forgiven him answered Joseph very passionately Yes and so exemplar a Forgiveness as the admiring World resounds it even to your Reproach That meek forgiving Goodness to that great bad Man so much above a Christian Love and Fraternal Amity even to a Humane Weakness Believe me Royal Madam continued the Cardinal I have given you Counsel and perhaps may have surprized you in it but to answer before the everlasting Tribunal for the Integrity of my Thoughts towards the Sacred Majesty of France in the Person of the Royal Anne of A a the Righteous Judge that knows the hidden Secrets knows that your Guardian Angel cannot bear his Charge over you more Faithfully and would more tenderly guide your least unerring Step than Richlieu Better a