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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47946	The unequal match, or, The life of Mary of Anjou Queen of Majorca Part 1. an historical novel.	La Chapelle, M. de (Jean), 1655-1723.; Spence, Ferrand.	1681 (1681)	Wing L133; ESTC R10966	69,072	170

THE Unequal Match OR THE LIFE OF MARY OF ANJOU QUEEN of MAJORCA An Historical Novel LONDON Printed for Charles Blount near the Bear Tavern by the New Exchange in the Strand and Richard Butt at the Bear and Orange-Tree in Princess Street near the Horshoo-Tavern in Drury-Lane 1681. TO THE Right Honourable THE Countess Dowager of Tenet c. Madam WHen greatness is maintained and attended with all those Gifts and Talents which procure it ecteem and respect when Persons of the highest Rank and Quality are more illustrious by their Merit than their Fortune it is no wonder if the World flocks to them with Offerings and that their excellencies procure them sometimes trouble and importunities instead of ease and satisfaction All those who have the Honour to know you Madam speak even with that veneration of your Ladyship that I could not curb the Ambition I have of adding one voice to the general shout and from crowding up to your Feet with this present It is a Presumption Madam I should have despaired of ever having been able to have attoned for had not this story of the Queen of Majorca met with that approbation in the World that it has been found capable of entertaining with delight the greatest Judges amongst whom your Ladyship being with justice acknowledged to have the first Place this Queen fancyed she could be no where so safe as under so glorious a Protection and therefore was restless and impatient till I had Vshered and Introduced her into your Ladyships presence I shall have fully satisfied my vanity if you find her Company Madam as agreeable as others have done and if you can think fit to Pardon the dress she appears in which I 'm afraid will be found to have too much of the French in it and I in this a too Superstitious observer of their Mode But should I excuse my self with her being huddled up in haste I should but prove the more importunate Nor shall I tell the World that Honour Wit and Vertue have never had a better Example than your Ladyship it would be I fancy like a Man in the Month of May or April who in a clear bright Sun-shining Day having a fair Prospect of all the Beauties Nature was ever capable of bestowing and which were adorned by all manner of improvements would declare to the World that it was Spring and Figure to himself he had discovered a great secret in publishing what was already the general delight Admiration and Wonder he could not fail of being similed at for his folly which to avoid it is sit that I be silent in a Subject that is above description that I make my Legg and retire with all Submission and Respect Madam Your Ladyships most Obedient and most humble Servant F. S. MARY OF ANJOU QUEEN OF MAJORCA THe Caprichiousness of the Stars is much to be admired in the Destiny of Princesses who seem to have been only born in an illustrious Rank for to be the more unhappy Policy usually requiring that they be delivered to Husbands without consulting their Inclinations and that they be purely Victimes of State Mary of Anjou Daughter of Charles the Second King of Naples and Sicily was a Famous Example of the fantassticalness not to say of the injustice of the Stars The King her Father gave her or rather Sacrificed her to the King of Majorca He had for her that tender affection that the most accomplished Princess upon the Earth merited severall Princes aspired to so Illustrious a Possession and she might have been happy The King of Majorca was an Old Man of a whimsicall and fierce humour had already had two Wives nay and had the Reputation of knowing how to dispatch them when he pleased An Union so ill suited could not but produce a very ill agreement Yet all these reasons tho' very powerfull could not prevail in the mind of King Charles over the reasons of State His Affairs demanded this Sacrifice from him the King of Majorca offered him great succours by Sea of which he had extream need for the resisting the powerfull Fleet that was preparing against him by Don James d' Arragon out of whose Prison he was newly released Insomuch that he accepted that alliance preferrable to so many others if not more illustrious at least more suitable to the Age and Humour of the Princess his Daughter but which could not be then so usefull to him as that of the King of Majorca I shall take the Subject a little farther than would be necessary for a History of Gallantry but as it is one of the finest Circumstances of the History of Italy and that I shall say nothing which does not belong to a faithfull Historian I assure my self that a Reader the least curious will not take ill my having added to the amourous Narration a recitall of the passages of most importance in that time and which will be no less diverting than what there was of Gallantry Charles the Second of that name King of Naples and Sicily one of the greatest Princes then under the Heavens had been more than Ten Years free Possessour of those two powerfull Kingdoms when his ambition which could not contain it self in the Narrow Bounds of some States which made but a little part of the World stirring up his Warlike Humour inspired him with more glorious Conquests Constantinople that Famous City appeared to him a Subject worthy enough to make him take Arms and some Lands he had in Morea being capable of serving him for a reason or at least for a pretext to pretend to the Empire of the East He prepared himself to drive away the Emperour Michael Paleologue but fortune raised him on a sudden greater Affairs than he could put an end to and gave him in his own Country wherewith to Exercise his Marshall-Genius The French according to their usual Custome lived in Sicily with that Liberty amongst the Women they take in all places Their Gallantry little agreable to the Humour of the Country giving occasion of complaints to several Husbands there was one certain John de Procula Physitian of the deceased King Manfroy whose Crown Charles the Second then possessed who entertaining some secret Intelligences with the Principal Lords of the Kingdom resolved to deliver his Country from so Incommode a Nation He went for that end to Constantinople had made known to the Emperour Michael the design that King Charles had hoping to engage him by a Motive of revenge as well as of glory to favour the discontented party but his practices not succeeding in that Court which demanded nothing but Peace and was not at the least in a State of giving great succours to the Sicilians he passed into Catalonia where he offered the Soveraignty of the Isle of Sicily to Peter King of Arragon who had Marryed Constance Daughter of Manfroy King of Naples and Sicily Peter being an Ambitious Prince and one of the most valiant of his time pusht on by jealousy of