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epose, he was forc'd to promise not to go; however, she consider'd all their Circumstances, and weigh'd the Advantages that might redound both to his Honour and Fortune, by it; and, in a matter of a Month's time, with the Persuasions and Reasons of her Friends, she suffer'd him to resolve upon going, her self determining to retire to the _Monastery_, till the time of his Return; but when she nam'd the _Monastery_, he grew pale and disorder'd, and obliged her to promise him, not to enter into it any more, for fear they should never suffer her to come forth again; so that he resolv'd not to depart, till she had made a Vow to him, never to go again within the Walls of a Religious House, which had already been so fatal to them. She promis'd, and he believ'd. _Henault_, at last, overcame his Heart, which pleaded so for his Stay, and sent his Father word, he was ready to obey him, and to carry the first Efforts of his Arms against the common Foes of Christendom, the _Turks_; his Father was very well pleas'd at this, and sent him Two thousand Crowns, his Horses and Furniture sutable to his Quality, and a Man to wait on him; so that it was not long e're he got himself in order to be gone, after a dismal parting. He made what hast he could to the _French_ Army, then under the Command of the Monsignior, the Duke of _Beaufort_, then at _Candia_, and put himself a Voluntier under his Conduct; in which Station was _Villenoys_, who, you have already heard, was so passionate a Lover of _Isabella_, who no sooner heard of _Henault's_ being arriv'd, and that he was Husband to _Isabella_, but he was impatient to learn, by what strange Adventure he came to gain her, even from her Vow'd Retreat, when he, with all his Courtship, could not be so happy, tho' she was then free in the World, and Unvow'd to Heaven. As soon as he sent his Name to _Henault_, he was sent for up, for _Henault_ had heard of _Villenoys_, and that he had been a Lover of _Isabella_; they receiv'd one another with all the endearing Civility imaginable for the aforesaid Reason, and for that he was his Country-man, tho' unknown to him, _Villenoys_ being gone to the Army, just as _Henault_ came from the _Jesuits_ College. A great deal of Endearment pass'd between them, and they became, from that moment, like two sworn Brothers, and he receiv'd the whole Relation from _Henault_, of his Amour. It was not long before the Siege began anew, for he arriv'd at the beginning
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