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Title:  The memoires of the Dutchess Mazarine out of French.
Author: Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.
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this Confession from me, she asked me his Name, but I knew it not. And though she took all the paines imagi∣nable to make me describe him, she was above two moneth vexing of me before she could find him out. She understood at last that it was an Itali∣an Gentleman newly come from be∣ing Page of the great Chamber who was then but one of the sub-Lieute∣nants in the Guards, but has been since Killed in a higher employment in Flanders. She told me his Name, and likewise made her self merry with the King about my pre∣tended inclinations, from whom she could conceal nothing. The Cardinal knew it a little after, and believeing it quite another thing than it really was, spoke to me of it in very harsh terms. It was the right way to make somthing of nothing; and if I were capable of in∣gageing my self for spight, his repro∣ches might incline me to deserve them. As this Gentleman was familiar in the House, the Noise the Cardinal made about it, reached his Ear, and raised in him Thoughts which he perhaps ne∣ver had before; at length he found 0