speaking of _Henault's_ Return, describing
the Man, it was quickly discover'd, to be the same that was in the Sack:
He had his Friend taken up (for he was buried) and found him the same,
and, causing a _Barber_ to Trim him, when his bushy Beard was off,
a great many People remember'd him; and the _French_ Man affirming, he
went to his own Home, all _Isabella's_ Family, and her self, were cited
before the Magistrate of Justice, where, as soon as she was accus'd, she
confess'd the whole Matter of Fact, and, without any Disorder, deliver'd
her self in the Hands of Justice, as the Murderess of two Husbands (both
belov'd) in one Night: The whole World stood amaz'd at this; who knew
her Life a Holy and Charitable Life, and how dearly and well she had
liv'd with her Husbands, and every one bewail'd her Misfortune, and she
alone was the only Person, that was not afflicted for her self; she was
Try'd, and Condemn'd to lose her Head; which Sentence, she joyfully
receiv'd, and said, Heaven, and her Judges, were too Merciful to her,
and that her Sins had deserv'd much more.

While she was in Prison, she was always at Prayers, and very Chearful
and Easie, distributing all she had amongst, and for the Use of, the
Poor of the Town, especially to the Poor Widows; exhorting daily, the
Young, and the Fair, that came perpetually to visit her, never to break
a Vow: for that was first the Ruine of her, and she never since
prosper'd, do whatever other good Deeds she could. When the day of
Execution came, she appear'd on the Scaffold all in Mourning, but with a
Meen so very Majestick and Charming, and a Face so surprizing Fair,
where no Languishment or Fear appear'd, but all Chearful as a Bride,
that she set all Hearts a flaming, even in that mortifying Minute of
Preparation for Death: She made a Speech of half an Hour long, so
Eloquent, so admirable a warning to the _Vow-Breakers_, that it was as
amazing to hear her, as it was to behold her.

After she had done with the help of _Maria_, she put off her Mourning
Vail, and, without any thing over her Face, she kneel'd down, and the
Executioner, at one Blow, sever'd her Beautiful Head from her Delicate
Body, being then in her Seven and Twentieth Year. She was generally
Lamented, and Honourably Bury'd.

_FINIS._

NOTES: The History of the Nun.

p. 262 _The Dutchess of Mazarine._ Hortense Mancini, niece of the great
Cardinal, was born at Rome in 1646. Her beauty and wit were such t