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Editor: Charles Davies

The Augustan Reprint Society

Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances

With an Introduction by Charles Davies

Publication Number 42

Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1953

GENERAL EDITORS

ASSISTANT EDITOR

ADVISORY EDITORS

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

INTRODUCTION

Charles Davies

University College of N. Wales, Bangor

NOTE

PARTHENISSA, A ROMANCE.

In Four Parts.

The First Part.

THE PREFACE.

Part First.

To all the LADIES of this NATION.

Fair Ladies,

Fair Ladies, Your most humble Servant.

An Apologie for ROMANCES.

BENTIVOLIO AND URANIA, IN FOUR BOOKES.

A PREFACE TO THE READER, CONCERNING The DESIGN of this BOOK.

But though She's such, let her return, and make An end of what we suffer for her sake.

THE Martyrdom OF THEODORA, And of DIDYMUS.

SUCH AN ACCOUNT Of the following BOOK, Sent with it to a FRIEND; As may serve instead of a PREFACE.

And lastly, I was induc'd to allow my self a more fashionable Stile, than would perhaps be suitable to a meer Sermon, or Book of Divinity, because I fear'd, that the Youthful Persons of Quality of both Sexes, that I was chiefly to regard, would scarce be sufficiently affected by unfortunate Vertue, if the interweaving of passages relating to Beauty and Love, did not help to make the Tragical story, Delightful, add the Excellent Sufferers Piety, Amiable.

ERRATA.

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