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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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her, for being with Child. The Re∣sentment which she shewed, diverted all so, that it was agreed she should be still told of it. They streightened her Cloaths from time to time; and they made her believe that she was growing very big.This continued as long as it was thought necessary, to perswade her, to the likely-hood of her being with Child. Yet she would never believe any thing of it, and denyed it with a great deal of heat, until the time of her Lying-in came, she found betwixt her Sheets, in the morning, a Child new born. You cannot imagine the Astonishment and Grief she was in, at this sight. Such a thing, said she, ne∣ver happned to any, but to the Virgin Mary and my self; for I never felt any kind of Pain. The Queen came to con∣dole with her, and offered to be God-mother; many came to Gossip with her, as newly brought to bed: And that which at first was but a Past-time, within doors, came to be the publick Divertisment of all the Court. They pressed her hard to tell who was the Fa∣ther; but all they could get from her, 0