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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64511	The third part of The amours of Messalina wherein the secret intrigues of the four last years reign are compleated, and the love adventures of Polydorus King of the Gauls, and the late Queen of Albion, made publick / by a woman of quality ...	Woman of quality, fl. 1689-1690.; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1689 (1689)	Wing T912; ESTC R14248	18,814	34

THE Third Part OF THE AMOURS OF Messalina WHEREIN The Secret Intrigues of the Four last Years Reign are Compleated AND THE Love Adventures of Polydorus King of the Gauls AND THE Late Queen of ALBION Made Publick By a Woman of Quality a late Confidant of Q. MESSALINA LONDON Printed for John Lyford 1689. THE Bookseller TO THE READER THE Promis'd and long Expected Third Part of the Amours of our MESSALINA is here at your Service And though some Criticks I am inform'd and indeed my Sale tells me as much have not put an equal value on the two foregoing Parts the Second lying under the Repute of much Inferiour to the First My Historian makes no other Apology than that the Fair Messalina had so many Engines at Work in turning that great Hinge of the Pagan Glory Her Warming-pan Plot and her Hands and Head so full of Politicks on that Important Occasion that She then wanted Leisure for Intrigue and Amour which indeed being the main Delight of the Generality of my Readers might perhaps lessen the Satisfaction expected from the Second Part. But since her Majesties Departure from the Heretick Albion has Translated her to a more agreeable and natural Element the Pagan Court of Gothland her heavier and sullen Business she begins to shake off and resumes the lighter Air of Love and Pleasure And accordingly we dare without Vanity assure our Kind Reader That the former Defects are supplyed in the Entertainment of this Third Part of her History An Amorous Polydorus little less famed under the Banners of Cupid than the sometimes Glorious Britomard himself lying at the Feet of the Adored Messalina affords a little mre Matter of Adventure and Diversion With this Recommendation to our little Volumn of the Great Messalina We beg your present generous Acceptance And if you find your Messalina warm with any extraordinary Spark for the Imperial Polydorus you are to consider that the Sanctuary and Glorious Reception she meets in the Court of her ever firm Friend the King of the Gauls have Inspired her with no small Gratitude to that MOST PAGAN Heroe and Champion of her Altars The Third PART LOVE could no longer brook this intefering Business in the Court of Albion for seeing with Indignation how Ambition daily had intrench'd on his Prerogative he reassumes his long neglected Darts and vows severe Revenge on his Rebellious Subjects And now Messalina's haughty Heart which vast aspiring Hopes had long engaged softens again in Gentleness and Love She had seen the Languets of her Charming Count and heard his gentle Murmurs with Compassion she knew the great restraint he forc'd upon his Heart when by reason of her numerous Attendants and Visitours he had not opportunity to breath his Love sometimes a Wink an Amorous Look or Sigh she would by stealth return or otherwise in some Ambiguous Words she would discover her Concern and Care for his endearing Passion but in such dumb shows alone as there were more than Three Weeks spent e're she could possibly engage or speak with him alone During which time her Beauty with the Satisfaction of her Mind was much improved and that forc'd Abstinence which her pretended Child-bearing had made her undergo conduc'd as well to carry on the Cheat as to revive some fading Glories in her Face caus'd by the Fears and Apprehensions of Miscarrying Now in Triumphant Wise she 'd Walk and Look and with Disdainful Jests among her Confidents Laugh at the weak dull Christians of the Court. Come Dear Aspasia would she say let us no longer doubt of good Success let 's every Year bring forth a Son and stock the Kingdom with a Race of Pagan Princes shall my aspiring lofty Soul stoop to the nice Destructive Rules of their insipid Morals One flight of Pagan Fancy quite out-strips their heavy tedious Motions and till now our Fears alone have been our Bugbear Apparitions With how much ease did we Contrive and Finish what some faint puny hearted Creatures thought impossible Oh how I am pleased to think how naturally I manag'd the Intreague Didst thou observe how gravely some would sland and when my feigned Groans and Cries would reach their Ears how then Officiously they 'd shake their Heads devoutly lifting up their Hands and pray for my Delivery Then when my seeming Pains would make me faintis●… with what Concern they 'd Sigh and Whisper while I would gently grasp and turn to thee and smile at the Success of our Invention Come Come let 's see this Darling of our Hopes this Ground-work of our Everlasting Joy long Live and Live to Reign my little blooming Life and Live to be the Scourge of our Curst Christian Foes I 'll swear thee like another Hambal their Mortal Foe each drop of Milk thou suck'st shall breed an Age of Malice in thy Heart A Christian's Name shall grate upon thy Soul and thou shalt prove the Plague of their Profession I 'll breath my Spirit through thy tender Pores and make thy hatred of them Everlasting Down down ye Pagans to your Great Deliverer Adore your Mighty Prince and your Redeemer See how the base dejected Christians shrink see how they Tremble at his Awful Frown Albion is once again Redeemed Aspasia and now my Crown sits firm and easie on my Head. Thus in Vain Raptures would the Queen break out and boast her Promises to be Prophetical but soon alas she found her self deceived and all her Glorious Promises vanish of a sudden Anaximander and the Princess Artemisia while Licogenes and his Pagan Councellors continued only to make some small Encroachments and Breaches on the Laws of Albion seemingly designing for no more than a small Toleration of the Pagan Religion in Albion kept themselves within all bounds of Modesty and Submission to the King their Father only in some small Remonstrances they did Declare their Unwillingness to appear Parties in the Annulling or Dispensing with those Laws made purely for the Security of the Christian Religion against the Practices and Contrivances of the Pagans but when they plainly saw their Own and the Kingdoms Interest resolved to be made a Sacrifice to the Ambition and Covetousness of a small Party that by the known Laws of the Land were declared the irreconcileable Enemies of the Christians they thought it then high time to look about them and though they paid all the Reverence imaginable to the King their Father yet they could not resolve to yield their Rights and Inheritance and hold precariously their Estates at the Discretion of an Anti-Christian pack'd Councel besides by several Remonstrances and Petitions from the Chief of the Nobility and Gentry they had been solicited to take them into their Protection and to endeavour a Redress of their Grievances and heavy Oppressions Anaximander being a Prince of a Vast and Generous Spirit was easily induc'd to condescend to their Relief for besides his proper Interest in the Crown of Albion which by the common Principles of Nature he was obliged to