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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59596	Female falshood, or, The Unfortunate beau contain'd in the genuine memoirs of a late French nobleman / written by Monsieur S. Evremont ; and now made English.	Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.; Villiers, Pierre de, 1648-1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing S303; ESTC R33704	128,974	288

without the least Concern her Plot being so contriv'd that I was to be the Object of her Husband's Revenge Her Answer was That she neither fear'd me nor her Husband and knew well enough how to disappoint our Designs I was astonish'd at this Reply and thinking she had mistaken me repeated over-again what I had been saying to her vowing I would rather dye than assist her Husband to her Prejudice She seem'd well pleas'd at it and answer'd If I did not bear Witness against her she had nothing to fear I reply'd I wondred how she could suppose I should ever think of doing her any Injury and thus we parted But this Woman was more mischievous than I could ever have imagin'd I was no sooner gone e're she went to her Husband and told him shedding abundance of Tears she found her self bound in Duty and Conscience to acquaint him That he entertain'd a Man whose whole Study was to contrive his Shame I know continu'd she what he has made you believe to gain your good Opinion he has own'd it to me himself thinking me so mad as to love him He was the only Algerine that ever came to me for it was under that Disguise that he would have got up into my Chamber From his Hand you receiv'd your Wound All this I knew and if I have since endur'd his Company the Reason was because you were so infatuated with him that I could do no otherwise but his Impudence is at length grown to such a Pitch that I can bear with it no longer All the Lies she impos'd on his Belief seem'd to him so probable that he wondred how he ever had suspected her Vertue seeing she ever had given him notice of my endeavouring to cuckold him and being now fully persuaded of what she said he tenderly embrac'd her vowing he would be reveng'd on me I in the mean while suspected nothing of all this yet fearing Manrique would execute the Design he had made me acquainted with I kept from his House and it was above a Week since the last Visit I paid him when I receiv'd a Note from Eleonor to give me Notice That my Death was decreed and that I had best quit Spain with all possible Diligence Tho' it was very Pressing I could not trust to it but resolv'd to speak with the Person that sent it me I had not seen her since the Promise I had made not to visit her but upon the Receipt of her Letter I put on my Algerine Habit and waited on her pretending I came from her Husband Hearing I was there she ran down to me and informed me in a few Words That Manrique had given out I was the Person who under the Disguise of an Algerine Slave had kill'd the Duke de 's Son that the King was acquainted with it and grew extream jealous thereupon that he had quarrell'd with her accusing her of having harbour'd me under that Disguise and had not seen her since so that she thought her self wholly out of Favour and that as for me the King the Duke de and Manrique had agreed I should be murther'd so that my Ruin was unavoidable if I did not immediately fly out of the Kingdom By the manner of her Delivery I judged I had no Time to lose and that it was my best way to take her Counsel and be gone but my Sorrow at leaving her and at my being the innocent Cause of all the Trouble she had receiv'd made me very loath to part which she perceiving grew angry with me telling me She saw I did not care what became of her since I would remain there tho' I knew she were lost if it reach'd the King's Ears that she had spoke with me which said she retir'd ordering me to be gone I was vexed at heart to see my self thus sever'd from a Person for whom I still retain'd an unfeign'd Passion and from whom I had some Reason to expect an equal return and the Desire of seeing her once more and bidding her a more tender Adieu prevail'd with me above the Dread of my Danger I had not the Power to go out of Town and my Love blinded me to that degree that I endeavour'd to find out some plausible Excuse for my Stay The Prince's Business were a Pretext sufficient to satisfie my self and however useless I might be to him yet my fond Imagination made me fancy he could not be without me whenever my Dotage would not suffer me to think of a Retreat Here I again experienc'd That Love soon grows stronger than all our other Passions when we yield our selves up to it and those who once suffer it to gain Ground must expect it will make them deaf to all other Considerations But tho' the Hope of giving Eleonor another Visit were the chief Motive of my remaining there yet that of being revenged on Isabella did not a little conduce to it and after all that was my greatest Care so unsteady was I in my Wishes and Resolutions I had indeed several substantial Reasons to hate that Woman yet I resented nothing so much as her preferring the Algerine before me Thinking she was not fully satisfied that the Algerine and I were the same Person I attempted by deceiving her once more to work my Ends and to that purpose sent her the following Letter Madam YOV will perhaps be surpriz'd at receiving this But tho' the Hand may be unknown the Person I hope is not I am Acma-Hamet once happy in your Love and who have been oblig'd to abscond through the Perfidiousness of one I though undeservedly call'd my Friend However I have now put it out of his Power to injure me since he is ignorant of my being here which I have taken all possible Care to conceal from every one save the Person for whose sake I have ventur'd hither I lodge with Alonso Riberos and if you can still love me expect shortly to hear from you My Landlord thinks I come from Morocco and am call'd Muley Asan Vnder that Name it is I must be enquir'd for This being safely deliver'd I went and lay at Alonso Riberos whom I made believe that I was a Morocco Merchant and was come to Madrid about some Business relating to my Trade Thus under this new Disguise I was safe from my Persecutors I satisfied the Fancy I had to remain there and fed the Hopes of compassing my Designs When I reflect on my Madness I am convinc'd that any one Passion is sufficient to make a young Man venture on the most desperate Undertakings for the more perilous my Projects were the more eager was I to put them in Execution and certainly Age and Wisdom can alone reclaim a Man from this ridiculous Romantick undauntedness I was not long at Riberos's before I had an Answer to my Letter It came safe to Isabella's Hands and it is not to be wondred at if having formerly thought the Algerine Slave and I to be two different Persons she was confirm'd in

shews that let a Woman be never so great a Fool she still has Wit enough to make one of a Man While this Dispute lasted in which the Victory began to incline of her side we saw a Company of Horsemen who coming up to us seiz'd on her and told me That his Electoral Highness would willingly have an account of the Reasons I had to run away with her This was as much as to say That they arrested me in his Name so I went along with them without putting them to the Trouble of a more rough Complement and came to Heydelberg where every one look'd on me as the Author of her Flight For the German asham'd of having given Credit to the Extravagancies she had told him was the most forward in publishing That I had persuaded her thus disguis'd to accompany me thinking thereby to save his own Credit for he was return'd before his Absence had been taken Notice of I sure had Reason to curse my ill Fortune on this account it being now the Third or Fourth Time in my Life that I had been tho' innocent suspected of stealing Women A Man must take great Care how he engages himself with Strangers for it often happens that by being too officious to them he hazards his own Quiet and Safety I gave the Elector a faithful account of what had pass'd and he readily believ'd me and laughing heartily at the German Lord's Simplicity assur'd me That he would do his Endeavours to help him to the Wife he had so great a Mind to Then I had leave to depart but fell sick by the way and spent above Six Weeks in my Journey I understood before my arrival at Warsaw That the only Person I fear'd was dead some Days since The Readers Memory may soon suggest to him That it was the Poysoning and Daggering Lady that I stood in such awe of She had since my leaving her marry'd the Lord I had surpriz'd her with and as it was commonly reported being weary of her Husband design'd to have poyson'd him but he was too hard for her at her own Weapons and prevented her King Ladislaus had been dead ever since the Year 1648. and his Brother Prince Casimir had succeeded him as well in the Enjoyment of his Queen as in that of his Kingdom I found her Majesty with Child and ready to lye in she told me I came in a very good Time for Two Reasons One to deliver my Brother out of the Trouble he had brought himself into and then to comfort a poor afflicted Gentlewoman who had had recourse to her and made great Complaints of me I was acquainted in the whole that my Brother had procur'd himself many Enemies by his Rash and Inconsiderate Behaviour especially in his Amours insomuch that he was forbid coming to Court And as for the Lady I understood by the Description was given of her thas it was my Heidelberg Mistress who was arriv'd into Poland almost a Fortnight before The Queen inform'd me That she had given out I had promis'd to marry her and having obtain'd my Desire had ungratefully forsaken her I satisfied her Majesty in that particular and gave her a true account of all I knew of her then her Majesty let me know further That the King began to be in Love with her at which I was glad hoping so potent a Rival might deliver me from her Impertinence The Story of her leaving Heydelberg runs thus After her Return the Elector endeavour'd to marry her to her stupid German Lover but having less Wit than he and still fondly persuaded that her Stars directed her to Poland she refus'd so good an Offer The Blockhead eager in his Pursuit and assisted by his Prince caus'd her to be confin'd thinking by that means to make her comply but she found a way to escape and having put on Man's Cloaths came to Warsaw with a Woman whom she had persuaded to accompany her under the same Disguise Being arriv'd there she enquir'd for me whom not finding she thought of the fine Story she had told the Queen But the King's Affection for her gave her other Thoughts and she look'd upon it as the Forerunner to her future Glory We chanc'd to meet not long after but with the same Indifferency as tho' we had never seen one another and the feign'd Promise nor the Adventures at Heydelberg were not once mention'd in our Conversation I found her free from all those Extravagancies she was now grown as sensible as she was fair and I must confess I never saw a Woman more charming She made me the Confident of her Intriegue with the King which brought me into fresh Misfortunes The Queen being as jealous of this as she had been of her former Husband would have had me acquaint her with all I knew of their Amour but I loath to be an Informer and fearing to displease her in refusing to obey her Commands pretended I had an Intriegue with her my self and that the King had wholly forsaken her The Confidence her Majesty repos'd in me made her give more Credit to what I said than to the Advices she had of the King's Falshood and she could not forbear acquainting him with this Report saying She wondred how People could have such mean Thoughts of him as to imagine he could love a Woman I entertain'd The effect of this was that he suspecting me order'd his Mistress to forbear seeing me When the Queen understood that I durst not visit her she was convinc'd I had deceiv'd her and resented it so highly that she began to hate me as much as she did her Rival My Brother 's wild Conduct had on the other Hand made our Name odious to the Polanders Having as I have already said been oblig'd to quit France about a Year and a half before he came to Warsaw thinking to find me there where he met with the Gentleman who had been my Second at Venice who was but just arriv'd The Queen made them a very kind Reception and Prince Cazimir's Election and Marriage having given an occasion to all sorts of Pastimes the Court was so much taken up with those Divertisements that War had for some time been wholly laid a side so they had not an occasion of serving his Polish Majesty against the Swedes to which end they said they were come and for want of other Employment wholly spent their time in the Ladies Conversation All the Particulars I could hear were That they had fought several Duels and that their rude Behaviour to every Woman they lik'd had at last oblig'd the Queen to command them to come no more to Court so that they confirm'd the Opinion Foreigners had then That what the French are most famous for I mean Politeness is what they least practise in their Amours which Prejudice I do not see that those who have travelled since have effac'd for it is look'd on as a Miracle to see a young French Gentleman behave himself with Discretion