sty Servants, whom he had
left to wait upon her, for Money for her Accommodation; so that she was
now reduced to one Woman, one Page, and this Gentleman. The Prince, in
this Time of his Imprisonment, had several Bills of great Sums from his
Father, who was exceeding rich, and this all the Children he had in the
World, and whom he tenderly loved.

As soon as _Miranda_ was come into _Holland_, she was welcom'd with all
imaginable Respect and Endearment by the old Father; who was impos'd
upon so, as that he knew not she was the fatal Occasion of all these
Disasters to his Son; but rather look'd on her as a Woman, who had
brought him an hundred and fifty thousand Crowns, which his Misfortunes
had consum'd. But, above all, she was receiv'd by _Tarquin_ with a Joy
unspeakable; who, after some Time, to redeem his Credit, and gain
himself a new Fame, put himself into the _French_ Army, where he did
Wonders; and after three Campaigns, his Father dying, he return'd home,
and retir'd to a Country-House; where, with his Princess, he liv'd as a
private Gentleman, in all the Tranquillity of a Man of good Fortune.
They say _Miranda_ has been very penitent for her Life past, and gives
Heaven the Glory for having given her these Afflictions that have
reclaim'd her, and brought her to as perfect a State of Happiness, as
this troublesome World, can afford.

Since I began this Relation, I heard that Prince _Tarquin_, dy'd about
three Quarters of a Year ago.

NOTES: The Fair Jilt.

p. 70 _To Henry Pain, Esq._ Henry Neville Payne, politician and author,
was a thorough Tory and an ardent partisan of James II. Downes ascribes
to him three plays: _The Fatal Jealousy_, produced at Dorset Garden in
the winter of 1672, a good, if somewhat vehement, tragedy (4to, 1673);
_Morning Ramble; or, Town Humours_, produced at the same theatre in 1673
(4to, 1673), which, though lacking in plot and quick incident, is far
from a bad comedy; and _The Siege of Constantinople_, acted by the
Duke's company in 1674 (4to, 1675), a tragedy which very sharply lashes
Shaftesbury as the Chancellor, especially in Act II, when Lorenzo, upon
his patron designing a frolic, says:--

My Lord, you know your old house, Mother Somelie's,
You know she always fits you with fresh girls.

Mother Somelie is, of course, the notorious Mother Mosely.

Henry Payne wrote several loyal pamphlets, and after the Revolution he
became, according to Burnet, 'the most active