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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02450	Lisarda; or, The travels of love and jealousy. A novel. In two parts. / By H.C. gent. ...	Cox, H.	1690 (1690)	Wing C6701AA; ESTC R174365	32,579	112

a fit occasion to put it off a second time Or else continue saying every now and then with a bonne Grace But Damn me Madam if it ben't very silly This will do for without doubt Sir the Ladies will credit you and the unknown Author hath but lost his labour in thinking to forestall you and be satyrical first he 'll bemoan the loss of so much pains and ten to one the next Novel he writes you will read in the Preface that he hath either hang'd or drown'd himself to put the thoughts of it out of his mind Lisarda OR THE TRAVELS OF Love and Jealousy PART II. THE Corregidor daily visited Ricardo Antonio who though his Wounds were by the diligence of Skilful Surgeons almost heal'd yet none understanding his continued Distemper nor the means to heal his Heart he was of a brisk Gallant Man become extreamly the Contrary full of thought and often discoursing and muttering to himself that the Corregidor extreamly fear'd Madness might be the Consequence of his restless Mind and therefore by all means endeavour'd to recreate him but this augmented his uneasiness by adding to his grief such things as he shunn'd therefore being wholly Cur'd of his Wounds he resolv'd by travel thinking Lisarda lost to get rid of his Cordial though troublesome Friends and to this purpose he with all privacy got things in a readiness and in the duskish of the Evening rid out of Town and in short time arriv'd at Barcelona and finding an opportunity to Embarque aboard the Gallies of the Great Duke of Tuscany who were upon their return before he Embark'd by Letters he acquainted his Friends of his health and taking Bills of Exchange for Rome he set forward He acquainted the Captain of the Gally who he was who treated him with all the Respect due to a Person of his Merit and order'd his Lodging in the great Cabbin where he endeavour'd to divert himself with the Lecture of some Books he had bought to that purpose at Barcelona there was also lodg'd another Gentleman near Ricardo whose Pensiveness and Melancholy occasion'd Ricardo to take notice of him and made him desirous to know the cause of his Sadness sometimes he was seen to lift up his Eyes to Heaven at other times was heard to sigh and Curse his adverse Fortune One night after the many that Ricardo had heard this Gentleman sigh and groan when others were bless'd with repose and only they two lay a-wake for with the grieved there is no pleasing slumbers nor rest but such as Nature by force extorts from their Melancholy hours Ricardo said to him Truly Sir though you are a stranger to me the trouble I perceive you lie under has extreamly disturb'd me for 't is not a small Portion of Pity that should be bestow'd on so worthy a Gentleman under Affliction which truly if I could any way remedy I would willingly adventure my Life to obtain your quiet and in travelling many times are knit the strictest bonds of Friendship Pardon me my own Condition somewhat resembling yours in that I also am under very uneasy Circumstances if I desire that we may for the time to come be pair'd in the happy number of Friends and therefore hoping your bounty will not refuse my desire I am willing to relate to you my Misfortunes which I believe if they are not greater they may equal yours hoping also that you 'll pay me in the same Coin Extreamly pleased was the Melancholy Gentleman with the courteous offers of Ricardo who desir'd not to wonder that he of himself should relate a misfortune that ought to be for his honour kept private from all the World but his Civilities had such influence over him that he had not Power to refuse him any thing besides he thought the stillness of the night requir'd a Companion to Discourse with to pass away those tedious hours so that Ricardo began and related the whole story of his Misfortunes and having ended the Gentleman confest his Misfortunes were great but those he should relate were far exceeding his in as much as he had not only lost a Mistress that he lov'd but a Wife whom he admir'd above all Worldly things and his Honour a thing that ought to be dearer than Life And it was thus The History of Don Enrique Thomas MY Name is Enrique Thomas de Guanches Fernandez Ysugo my Country Barcelona the Metropolitan of the noble Principality of Cattalonna my Quality of the Most Illustrious in that State my Estate though not of the largest yet enough and my Age thirty four Years There dwelt in the very next House to my Fathers a young Lady whom I lov'd as I grew in sense and years beginning from my Childhood I mistake I should say ador'd for 't is more than love not to be said to live out of her sight Our Parents were intimate Friends and so our Acquaintance and Intimacy was the less noted by the Neighbours or scandaliz'd by the Envious I will not tire you with the account of my Endeavours to please and gain that amiable Creature that would be to tire you as also refresh my Mind and make me suffer a second Martyrdom but in short I 'll say no Art no Industry no Zeal can ever second mine to Donna Estefania for so is she nam'd who by her Ingratitude hath caus'd my Misery It will be enough to say we were both Children our Loves great her Beauty vast and her behaviour at that time exceeding Modest very Witty and consequently well discours'd our opportunity did not a little encrease our Flames for with the leave of our Parents we at any time might see each other and indeed seldom was it we were a sunder by which our Parents perceiving our desires confirm'd their Friendship by affinity Marrying us both very young who yet for all that in our desires had been long wedded Whoever say that Marriage gluts and consequently impairs Love certainly must be such dull Souls who more like Brutes than Men are but satisfying their sensual Appetite while I 'm sure all refin'd Spirits who by the continual Enjoyment have daily the Experiments of the Wit the Modesty the Love the pleasing Behaviour affording daily fresh supplies to edge his Appetite though her Beauty should diminish and though I cannot pretend to more than just a reasonable Man yet like another Columbus after many years of Enjoyment when I thought it was impossible to love more I found new Worlds and daily fresh Delights unknown to me the day before ten Years did compleat my Joys with her for as Heaven envy'd my Happiness and malicious Hell resolv'd to obstruct it after these years where Joys and Blessings crowded to me by the vastness I had been happier had my love been less Our Estates joining together was so great that her desire could not reach my Liberality the Ostentation being conformable to our Riches that we never so much appear'd Lover and Mistress as when we were Man and Wife but