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Updated: May 28, 2025

Madam d' Ensilden did all this time whatever could be expected from a sincere affection, in order to procure his enlargement; but the interest of her friends, at least of those who would be employed in this intercession, were infinitely too weak to oppose that of Flemming and the king's own inclination, so that he remained a prisoner, without being permitted either to write to madam d' Ensilden or see her, till the time of his being delivered into our hands.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

When he first entered into the service of Augustus, he became passionately in love with madam d' Ensilden, a young lady, whose beauty, birth, and fortune rendered her worthy the affections of a man of more honour than he had testified in his public capacity: her friends at least thought so; and chancellor Flemming making his addresses to her at the same time, had the advantage in every thing but in her heart: there Patkul triumphed in spight of all objections: and tho' king Augustus vouchsafed himself to sollicite in behalf of his favourite, her constancy remained unshaken as a rock; which so incensed a monarch haughty and imperious in his nature, before humbled by our glorious Charles, that he made use of his authority, and forbid her to think of marrying any other: to which she resolutely answered, that she knew no right princes had to interfere with the marriages of private persons; but since his majesty commanded it, she would endeavour to obey and live single.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.