istresses more besides me, and made no
scruple of it at all.

However, I say, as to my own part, I enjoyed myself in perfect
tranquillity; and as the prince was the only deity I worshipped, so I
was really his idol; and however it was with his princess, I assure you
his other mistresses found a sensible difference, and though they could
never find me out, yet I had good intelligence that they guessed very
well that their lord had got some new favourite that robbed them of his
company, and, perhaps, of some of his usual bounty too. And now I must
mention the sacrifices he made to his idol, and they were not a few, I
assure you.

As he loved like a prince, so he rewarded like a prince; for though he
declined my making a figure, as above, he let me see that he was above
doing it for the saving the expense of it, and so he told me, and that
he would make it up in other things. First of all, he sent me a toilet,
with all the appurtenances of silver, even so much as the frame of the
table; and then for the house, he gave me the table, or sideboard of
plate, I mentioned above, with all things belonging to it of massy
silver; so that, in short, I could not for my life study to ask him for
anything of plate which I had not.

He could, then, accommodate me in nothing more but jewels and clothes,
or money for clothes. He sent his gentleman to the mercer's, and bought
me a suit, or whole piece, of the finest brocaded silk, figured with
gold, and another with silver, and another of crimson; so that I had
three suits of clothes, such as the Queen of France would not have
disdained to have worn at that time. Yet I went out nowhere; but as
those were for me to put on when I went out of mourning, I dressed
myself in them, one after another, always when his Highness came to see
me.

I had no less than five several morning dresses besides these, so that I
need never be seen twice in the same dress; to these he added several
parcels of fine linen and of lace, so much that I had no room to ask for
more, or, indeed, for so much.

I took the liberty once, in our freedoms, to tell him he was too
bountiful, and that I was too chargeable to him for a mistress, and that
I would be his faithful servant at less expense to him; and that he not
only left me no room to ask him for anything, but that he supplied me
with such a profusion of good things that I could scarce wear them, or
use them, unless I kept a great equipage, which, he knew, was