waited, and where the page found _Brilliard_, of whom he asked for his lord; but understanding he could not possibly come in some hours, being designed for Court that evening, whither he was obliged to go and kiss the Governor’s hands, he went to the lady, who was almost dead with impatience, and told her, what he had learned: upon which she ordered her chairmen to carry her back to her lodgings, for she would not be persuaded to ask any questions of _Brilliard_, for whom she had a mortal hate: however, she resolved to send her page back with a billet, to wait _Philander_’. coming, which was not long; for having sooner dispatched their compliment at Court than they believed they should, they went all to supper together, where _Brilliard_ had bespoke it; where being impatient to learn all the adventures of _Cesario_, since his departure from him, and of which no person could give so good an account as _Chevalier Tomaso_, _Philander_ gave order that no body whomsoever should disturb them, and sat himself down to listen to the fortune of the Prince. ’.ou know, my lord,’ said _Tomaso_,’.he state of things at your departure; and that all our glorious designs, for the liberty of all _France_ were discovered, and betrayed by some of those little rascals, that great men are obliged to make use of in the greatest designs: upon whose confession you were proscribed, myself, this gentleman, and several others: it was our good fortunes to escape untaken, and yours to fall first in the messenger’s hands, and carried to the _Bastille_, even from whence you had the luck to escape: but it was not so with _Cesario_.’ ‘Heavens,’ cried _Philander_, ‘the Prince, I hope is not taken.’ ‘Not so neither,’ replied _Tomaso_, ‘nor should you wonder you have received no news of him, in a long time, since forty thousand crowns being offered for his head, or to any thing that could discover him, it would have exposed him to have written to any body, he being beset on all sides with spies from the King; so that it was impossible to venture a letter, without very great hazard of his life. Besides all these hindrances, _Cesario_, who, you know, was ever a great admirer of the fair sex, happened in this his retreat to fall most desperately in love: nor could the fears of death, which alarmed him on all sides, deter him from his new amour: which, because it has relation to some part of his adventures, I cannot omit, especially to your lordship, his friend, to whom every circumstance of that Prince’s fate and fortune will be of concern.