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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81547	The disorders of Bassett, a novel. Done out of French		1688 (1688)	Wing D1673; ESTC R229575	29,172	114

to the same Persons that won it before and appoint 'em to be there on purpose to loose it back again by which means they will see plainly he did not design Cheating and shou'd the Chevalier chance to speak on 't as he mistrusted the Event was sufficient to justifie the Act. Besides said he if the Town should come to talk of a Quarrel between you and Madam Landroze's Brother when they see you Taillying at her House 't will be look't upon as an idle Report and soon be forgotten The Marquiss approved of what was said The Count went to the Chevalier and the other Persons who were to loose the Money to acquaint 'em with the design and give 'em the Money with all Orders necessary thereunto Then he gave notice to several other Gamesters that there would be Bassett at Madam Landroze's about Six of the Clock As for the Marquiss he went to Madam Landroze's and told her what the Chevalier had said to the Marshal of France how they sent some of the Guards to him and what bad hapen'd thereupon Afterwards he proposed to her the taillying at her House about Six of the Clock She desir'd nothing more then to play and was only troubled that they did not begin two Hours sooner There chanc't to be a great deal of good Company there that day who design'd to play deep But just as the Marquiss had drawn out the Bank money in order to Tallièe and the Setters made choice of their Cards they heard a great noise in the Street they saw a publick Officer with a Trumpet before him and a piece of Parchment in his Hand in the midst of a great crow'd and heard him pronounce the Word Bassett several times but cou'd make nothing of what he said Mean while the Company being greatly puzzl'd to know the meaning on 't in came an Old Gentleman Husband to a young Lady who was then present and had set several Loüis d'ors upon a Card With great Joy in his Looks he told 'em it was an Order of Council to forbid Bassett then looking a little angrily he commanded his Wife not to play she laught at him and the more he forbid her the more pressing she was with the Marquiss to deal on The Penalty of the Order said he is Five hundred Livres forfeiture upon every one that plays Three thousand upon him that keeps the Bank and the House where they play to be shut up This perplex'd and madded all the Company Madam Landroze was for rallying it off and said she liked the Company too well to shut her Doors against ' em The Marquiss was loath to incur the Forfeiture of Three thousand Livres The Chevalier enraged at the Order was very positive and offer'd to lay Five hundred Loüis d'ors one might safely play the rest of that day however there being few of his Mind they broke up and went away without it As they were going off he endeavour'd to perswade 'em to come back but finding it to no purpose told 'em that the forbidding Bassett was of a mighty consequence which he was desirous to communicate to 'em and therefore invited 'em all to Supper The Ladies and all those Gentlemen who were Strangers to the Chevalier thank'd him for his Invitation and went away while such as were his Friends and Acquaintance went along with him to the Petit-Paris where he bespoke a Supper The Marquiss promis'd the Chevalier to be there as soon as he In the mean time as the Company were taking their leaves he counted over his Money and put Eight hundred Loüis d'ors in a Purse by it self Then finding himself alone with Madam Landroze he offer'd her the Purse in which the Eight hundred Loüis d'ors were confessing the whole Cheat in hopes she wou'd pardon him and look upon 't as the excess of Love. While he was speaking Madam Landroze turn'd sometimes pale sometimes red and chang'd Collour above a hundred times What said she to him reaching out her Hand to take the Purse is it possible and are these Eight hundred Loüis d'ors and the Twelve hundred you left here yesterday my own Which the Marquiss assuring her Well said she to him you are a Man of Honour and I forgive you freely in full assurance whereof as likewise how much I look upon my self to be interested in any thing that concerns you I will make you an intire Confident in all my Thoughts Ah! Madam said the Marquiss interrupting her how good and how obliging you are and how sensible am I of it nay further continued she I 'll give you advice which makes against my self and if you 're wife you 'll follow it but for fear any body shou'd come in and surprize me with this Purse in my Hand let me go lock it in my Cabinet which accordingly she did and being come back again Troth Marquiss said she I had a narrow escape yesterday for my ill Fortune at play had reduced me to so great an Extremity that I protest I had not the power to deny you any thing you cou'd ask me But thanks to Providence and my own little Cunning I am now safe deliver'd But withal Sir continued she I must needs say you have not lost much by 't for whatever you had done with my Person I had from my very Heart detested the Action and lookt upon it only as a hard Ransom to Redeem me out of that Slavery whereinto my late Losses had unfortunately thrown me Know Marquiss that my Affections are otherwise engaged and that too to the most ungrateful Man breathing one who once had or at least counterfeited a strong Passion for me and oh if 't was counterfeited 't was done to the Life one who has a thousand times sworn to love me as long as he liv'd However the Traytor has proved false and what is yet worse Falshood has been so far from curing me of my Love that it has rather increas'd it the more Once when I upbraided him with his Ingratitude and beg'd him to return to the Passion he formerly had for me Cou'd I said he Ah! Madam how gladly would I do 't Can there be a greater Happiness in the World than that of loving where one is belov'd but we are not so much Masters of our own Hearts I value you above any Person breathing and wou'd readily sacrifice my Life and Fortune to your Service but I beg you not to exact the Tribute of a Heart which is not in my own power to dispose of A hundred and a hundred times have I call'd my self perjur'd and ingrateful and blush'd at the shame of so infamous a Character but how in vain are all such Attacks upon a Heart resolv'd never to surrender I thought this Discourse so very ridiculous that I broke off with my Faithless Lover and forbid him from ever more corning near me and yet Marquiss 't is but too great a Truth and what I have experimented upon you that the Heart is a head strong

Libertine that will love only where it pleases How often have I to the most advantage that cou'd be reminded my self of the great Obligations I owe you of your high Merit and Passionate Affections for me with frequent Suggestions to my self how happy I shou'd be in your Love cou'd I but love you again I endeavour'd by such gentle Stratagems as these to surprize my Heart and make it come over to you till having by degrees got a Habit of loving you it shou'd declare for you against that perfidious Man your Rival but so successless were all those Stratagems that they recoyl'd upon me and what ever my Reason made use of to strengthen your interest my Heart insensibly turn'd to the advantage of that ingrateful Man. Judge now what endeavours I 've used to perswade my self to love you and to how little purpose they have all been 'T is not Choice or Reason that governs the Heart but being byass'd by it knows not what it suffers it self to be hurried away with an unaccountable Pleasure to it knows not whither or wherefore and so strangely contradictory is the Temper of those who are in Love that they fondly pursue their Tormentors and fly from those that would make 'em Happy Oh! Cruelty reply'd the Marquiss interrupting her is it not enough to tell me you don't love me but that I have a Rival whom you do love Well Marquiss said she since 't is so let us try in some measure to alleviate the security of our Fates you by endeavouring to wean your self from me and I by studying to forget your Rival since to love and not be loved again is certainly the greatest Plague upon Earth For Heavens sake Madam reply'd the Marquiss teach me the Secret to forget you 't is all the Reward I ask of whatever I have endur'd for you There is a never failing one said she which is never to see me more and leave the rest to time Never to see you more Madam reply'd the Marquiss to spend Hours Days Months nay Years without seeing you or so much as ever hoping to see you more Ah! what a Cruel Remedy you tell me of will time do you say work the rest Alas how slow and weak a Cure is Time for so violent a Distemper Just as the Marquiss had said this in came the Chevalier and told him Supper was ready and that the Company staid for him though the Marquiss had a great deal more to say to Madam Landroze yet he was forc'd for that time to take his leave of her which he did with so much concern that he cou'd scarce hide it from the Chevalier Wh n he was come to the place where they were to sup he told those Persons whom he had engaged in the design against Madam Landroze that he had restor'd her all the Money they had won of her and turn'd it off with a Jest Whereupon they gave him the Eight hundred Loüis d'ors which the Count Charlois had given them Supper being upon the Table and all the Company going to sit down the Chevalier told 'em he had a matter of great importance to impart to 'em of which it was highly necessary that every one should give his Opinion that most Voices shou'd carry 't in order whereunto they shou'd chuse a President to count 'em but not begin the Debate till the Fruit was upon the Table and in the mean time to consider well of the choice Several Healths went round briskly at last the Fruit being set on the Chevalier ask'd the Company if they had thought of a President whereat they all with one Voice cry'd out they had made Choice of him Immediately the Chevalier putting on as Grave and Magesterial a Look as tho' he were President of the Council open'd the Sessions in this manner The defence of Bassett Sirs is to be the Subject of our present Debate and we being the chief Gamesters whatever Rule we make herein will be binding to others wherefore I desire every particular Person may give his advice in this weighty Affair deliberately and without any prejudice The first thing then to be consider'd of is Whether 't is most for our advantage to play at Bassett or not And if to play then secondly What is to be done to avoid the Order which was this day Proclaimed to the contrary Begin Monsieur l' Abbè said the Chevalier addressing himself to the Abbèe Olarion you whom the World has honour'd with the Glorious Title of Clerk of the Bassett Table For my part Sir said the Abbè I 'm of Opinion the whole Company has reason to keep up Bassett I 've ever found it turn to good Account and that the Bank must be the only Winner at long run 'T is true that Bassett is an ill Game for the Setters but we that are here present have not so little Wit as to do any thing but go in the Bank. 'T is not continued he smiling but with great labour and pains that I have purchas'd that Glorious Title of Clerk of the Bassett Table having crouppied day after day to several Banks from two of the Clock after Dinner till Eight at night and so from Nine till One of the Clock the next Morning Now I leave it to you to consider how strong a Head a Man must have to undergo so great a Fateigue The first Point which is whether 't is most for our advantage to play at Bassett being thus clear'd I come now to the Second viz. How we may play at it without any danger This I must confess does a little gravel me There is no Pleasure in being made an Example At first they will be very strict in putting the Law in Execution in my judgment therefore 't is not safe to oppose them in the heat of their first Resolutions but wart with patience till better days which cann't but be e're long for Bassett is too too bewitching a Game not to draw many of the Nobility and other Persons of Quality in to play at it which will serve for a President to us and this in short is what I think of the whole Matter Come thou Reverend Judge of Bassett says the Chevalier thou to whose infallible Decission all difficult and controversial Points of Bassett are submitted with an implicit Faith let 's hear what you say I said Chatigny am of Abbè Olarion's Opinion but cou'd wish that in the mean time some Expedient might be found out of playing in some Noble Mens or Ambassadors Houses and that sometimes we may have private Bassett in our Chambers to keep us in breath What think you Noble Captain says the Chevalier you that as the Town will have it have been so unfortunate at this Game I said the Captain for my part have been so provok'd with Bassett that I wish him hang'd who first found it out Before this Game came up I and some others that understood play pretty well cou'd now and then pick up a little Money and