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A60163	The novels of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, knight of the order of St. James Faithfully Englished. Whereunto is added, The marriage of Belphegor, an Italian novel. Translated from Machiavel.	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645. aut; Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Jerónimo, 1581-1635.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Novella di Belfagor. English. aut	1671 (1671)	Wing S369A; ESTC R219865	64,311	169

THE NOVELS OF Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas Knight of the Order of St. James Faithfully Englished Where unto is added The Marriage of Belphegor An ITALIAN Novel Translated from Machiavel LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-bar 1671. The Preface THe end of most Prefaces being to beg submissively the favour and attention of a Reader who is most commonly inexorable had put me so out of love with them that I was resolv'd to make none for my Spaniard whose Nation or Wit seldom use to go a begging But the Book-seller not well pleased that his Book should want a leaf in the beginning which others have is very earnest to have me say something of one whose Name speaks enough for himself Quevedo Reader is my Author and his pleasant Visions which have of late so diverted you were the productions of the same brain as these Novels 'T is true there will be one advantage wanting to them and that is that they have not met with one that could dress them so well in the English habit as the Visions did But truly in that besides their misfortune you must blame the sullenness of the Spaniard who had so affected an humour this time as not to be perswaded to change his Scene or lay aside his Native customs It would have been easie to have changed the Prado into Saint James's Park but then what should we have done with the Guittar which is so absolutely unseparable from a Spaniards courtship in the Night the customs of hot Countries being much to give occassion to Night-Adventures It would have been somewhat uncouth to have brought him to walk the Streets of London where he would see no body but a few Wenches and the Constable with his Watch ready to spoil all at every turning This I thought fit to say as well for the Author as for the Translator but most of all for the Book-seller For I believe the Reader will find more satisfaction and a greater Apologie for the faults if any in the reading of the Book than of the Preface Adieu A Catalogue of Books Printed this year 1670. for John Starkey Book-seller at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-Bar THe Jesuits Morals collected by a Doctor of the Colledge of Sorbon in Paris who hath faithfully extracted them out of the Jesuits own Books which are printed by the permission and approbation of the Superiors of their Society Written in French and exactly translated into English Folio price bound 12 s. Basilica Chymica Praxis Chymiatrice or Royal and Practical Chymistry in three Treatises being a Translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal Chymistry augmented an enlarged by John Hartman To which is added his Treatise of Signatures of internal things or a true and lively Anatomy of the greater and lesser World As also the Practice of Chymistry of John Hartman M. D. augmented and enlarged by his Son with considerable Additions all faithfully Englished by a Lover of Chymistry in Folio price bound 10 s. A Relation of three Embassies from his Majesty Charles the Second to the Great Duke of Muscovy the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark performed by the Right Honourable the Earl of Carliste in the years 1663. and 1664. Written by an Attendant on the Embassies in Octavo price bound 4 s. A Relation of the Siege of Candia from the first Expedition of the French Forces to its Surrender the 27th of September 1669. Written in French by a Gentleman who was a Voluntier in that Service and faithfully Englished In Octavo price bound 1 s. The Present State of the United Provinces of the Low Countries as to the Government Laws Forces Riches Manners Customs Revenue and Territory of the Dutch Collected out of divers Authors by W. A. Fellow of the Royal Society In Twelves price bound 2 s. 6 d. the second Edition Accidence Commenc'd Grammar and supply'd with sufficient Rules or a new and easie Method for the learning the Latine Tongue The Author John Milton In Twelves price bound 8 d. A Relation of the Coasts of Africk called Guinnee with a Description of the Countries Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Productions of the Earth and the Merchandise and Commodities it affords with some Historical Observations on the Coasts being collected in a Voyage made by the Sieur Villault Escuyer Sieur de Bellefond in the years 1666. and 1667. faithfully Englished In Twelves price bound 1 s. 6 d. the second Edition A Guide for Constables Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyors of the High-ways Treasurers of the County-stock Masters of the House of Correction Baylifs of Mannors Toll-takers in Fairs c. shewing the extent and power of the several Offices Collected by George Meriton price bound 1 s. 6 d. the second Edition with additions A Relation of the French Kings late Expedition into the Spanish Netherlands in the years 1667. and 1668. with an Introduction discoursing his Title thereunto and an Account of the Peace between the two Crowns made May 2. 1668. Englished by G. H. In Twelves price bound 1 s. The Voyage of Italy or a Compleat Journey through Italy in two parts with the Characters of the People and the Description of the chief Towns Churches Palaces Villas Gardens Pictures Statues Antiquities as also of the Interest Government Riches Force c. of all the Princes with instructions concerning Travel By Richard Lassels Gent. who travelled through Italy five times as Tutor to several of the English Nobility O●us Posthumum Corrected and set forth by his old Friend and Fellow-traveller S. W. Never before extant In Twelves price bound 4 s. The present State of France containing the Orders Dignities and Charges of that Kingdom Newly corrected and put into a better method than formerly written in French and faithfully Englished in twelves price bound 2 s. 6 d. Paradise Regained A Poem in Four Books to which is added Samson Agonistes a Drammatick Poem the Author John Milton In Octavo price bound 2 s. 6 d. The Golden Calf in which is handled the most rare and incomparable Wonder of Nature in transmuting Metals viz. how the intire substance of Lead was in one moment transmuted into Gold obrizon with an exceeding small particle of the true Philosophick Stone at the Hague in the year 1666. Written in Latin by John Frederic Helvetius Doctor and Practitioner at the Hague Faithfully Englished In Twelves price bound 1 s. THE NOVELS OF Dom Francisco de Quevedo The Night-Adventurer IT will be needless in the beginning of this Work to use an Invocation of Apollo for since we do describe the actions of one who was at feude with those beams of light which make the happiness of other Mortals if we did require the assistance of any of the Divinities of the Fabels it would rather be that of Diana whose pale rays preside over the gloomy dark shades of the Night But leaving there the Stars we must make our addresses to something more black

than those Clouds through which their influences are still preceptible and I think Ink is the best thing we can hit upon for indeed can there be any thing from which we may expect a more favourable assistance since its deep black is the very belov'd Liverys of our Adventurer 'T is true Paper will have some reason to complain to see its whiteness soiled and its evenness disfigured with so many different Characters but I must desire it to put up this injury among the many others which it patiently endures every day from the an infinity of scribling Authors whose temerity and ignorance are eternally prompting them to affront it Hail then thou black Dye by whose means Mortals renown and fame is both illustrated and blur'd help us to describe the actions of a tenebrious Knight the wanderer of Church-yards the camerade of Bats and Owls but let us not be too nice in our stile for it's Truth from which we intend to borrow our Ornaments Talavera a considerable City in the Kingdom of Toledo and situated upon the banks of the golden Tagus was the place where our Heros first saw light he was of a noble Family which had no blemish either in its Honour or Religion In his first Infancy his house became a Scene of sorrow for his Father being engaged in a duel dyed gallantly and left his Son an ample inheritance of fame and honour his Mother surpassing all the VViddows who now a dayes cannot afford to stay till their mourning be over till they engage in new amours prevented even the news of her Widdowhood by a second Marriage Our Cavalier was the youngest of three Brothers and by consequent designed for the Church his name at first was only Don Diego but in time by his conduct he acquired the Sirname of Lucifugne or enemy of the Light The Church who takes care of her Children was so fond of him that she nourished him from his tender years with the sweet milk of divers rich Benefices which from time to time were conferr'd on him whereof some requiring his residing at Toledo made that a necessity in him which else would have been a choice For it is one of the deliciousest places in the VVorld but whether it were that he was soon glutted with the abundant pleasures of the place or that the obligation of their tasting them took away the greatest part of their relish he stayed not long there but having attained the 20th year of his age he disposed of his Benefices into other peoples hands still reserving to himself considerable pensions upon them with the aid of which and of his own Patrimony he made up a Revenue of 6 or 700 pound a year Thus provided against Fortune and full fraught with the expectation of that variety which young peoples vagabond inclinations do most run after he came to Madrid the chief City of Spain and the ordinary residence of the King and Court There he seated himself in that part of the Town which was most suitable to his capricious humour which was that which was least frequented and in a by-Street where few people did come The house he bought was pretty large and so capable of being divided into two parts with all necessary apartments to each the one he reserv'd for himself and the other for his friends which last he furnish'd very neatly and modishly as for his own he order'd it according to his extravagant humour First he took down all the upper stories as being useless to one who was resolved to keep as much under ground and in the dark as it was possible Secondly he caused all the VVindows to be stopt up not leaving the least cranny for the Sun-beams to peep through then he hung all the VValls of it with black in a word 't was rather a sepulchre for the Dead than a habitation of the Living He was most passionate for the art of Musick taking a singular delight in playing upon his Guittar and singing to it and in this he was so great a Master that there were but very few that could compare with him and indeed his excellence in this Art and Poetry made up the greatest part of his ambition for he was very well pleased with his own condition not at all moved at other peoples vanity or preferments and so far from courting fortune to an encrease of his that all his design was only to enjoy himself and his friends in his own singular way he seldom or never stirr'd out in the day time giving all that to Musick and sleep as soon as it was dark and that there was no distinguishing of objects then did he set out for a walk which he alwayes perform'd without any other company or protection than that of his Sword a Rondach or Buckler and his Guittar and in this Equipage walking all night he met with great variety of Adventures some good some bad but still ending gloriously and to his Honour If it please you Reader to surcease your other occupations which it may be are as idle as the relation of his Adventures will be I will recite some of them to you and do promise before hand that they shall be both diverting and profitable Adventure the first IN the middle of the VVinter and of the moneth of January a season in which the Nights are a great deal longer than the Dayes and so cold that the most fiery completions are ready to freeze if they chance to be abroad Don Diego being weary of sitting at home all alone resolv'd about eleven of the Clock at Night to take a turn in the Streets of Madrid he took his Guittar and in his way playing some Sarabands and sometimes singing to it had gone through a great many Lanes and By-places when at last being come to a very solitary quarter of the Town he stop'd a little to consider where he was and looking up heard a Casement open and a Voice call him with the inviting noise of ist ist He whose heart was alwayes enclined to new discoveries in Nocturn Adventures drew near and heard a whispering Voice say these VVords If it be you that left this place last Night with so many marks of an entire satisfaction why come you again to Night so late Don Diego was a little surprized at so pleasant a question but immediately recollecting himself answered 'T is I I am the same Man open the door as soon as he had spoke the door was opened and he heard some body bid him tread very softly he obeys and following a person that led him by the hand did begin already to thank his genius for prompting him to the quick acceptance of the good fortune which he thought attended him within After he had passed two or three Doors and as many Entries he came at last into a Room at the entrance of which instead of the amorous Embraces which he expected he found himself seized by three or four strong Men borne down to the ground and

in the Chauncell a strange body it being a place which belonged only to the Lord of the Mannor the Curate appeased them and Don Diego coming up and being somewhat concerned that his dead man should not be able to find rest any where bethought himself of a stratagem to hinder their throwing him out of the Church and desired they would give him some dayes time in which he hoped to prove that his dead body had a relation to that of their Lord he did this only because he supposed the mourners would be gone the next day and so leave him the liberty of burying the Corps In the mean time the Parson having enquired into the cause of the sudden death of his Patron was told that it had proceeded from a great grief which he took for the loss of two thousand Ducats which some thieves at Madrid had rob'd him of in the Night four dayes ago This was the same robbery for the discovering of which the Alguasil which Don Diego had met with in his Inn was going post and indeed the diligence of the dead Lords Heirs was such that having dispatched people on all hands upon the inquiry some of them at last met at the entry of a Wood with a fellow whom for his suspicious looks they seised upon and searched they found his pockets full of pick-locks and such other instruments whereupon they immediately brought him before the Judge of the Village where Don Diego was there for fear of being rack'd he confessed all as followeth That he had been with seven more assistant at a great robbery committed at Madrid that to transport their prey the more securely they had disguised themselves like Monks and Mourners and had buried their prize in a hearse which they had loaded upon two Mules and attended it as if it had been a dead body that by the help of this invention they had passed all Guards and avoided all searches that they had rested themselves at a Village where he had unluckily taken too much Wine and was left a sleep by his Camerades who had taken his Mourning and given it to another whom they had hired that as soon as he was awake knowing the place they were going to he had followed them and that he was much surprized at his arrival to find two of them dead and the rest lye wounded upon the ground in little hopes of life that all that he could get from them was that during their conflict the Stranger whom they had hired was run away with their Mules and their booty and that he was taken by them as he was endeavouring to find out the trace of the Mules By this ample declaration the Judge came to know that that was the robbery which had precipitated the old Lord in to his Grave and immediately sent for the Curate and Don Diego to acquaint them with it great was their admiration they go immediately to the Chauncell where were the two bodies the one of the Lord and the other of his treasure it was opened in presence of witnesses and found entire they sent post to the Heir who came transported with joy to view the truth of so good tidings he forgave the poor thief who had revealed made the Jaylor let him make his escape The next effect of his gratitude was to Don Diego whom he would have presented very handsomly but he who was noble and generous refused all other testimonies of his kindness besides the honour of his Frindship After that he presented his Curate with the two Mules and so took leave carrying along with him the richest of the two dead bodies Don Diego after this would have taken leave of the Curate but could not get away his intreaties to stay being so cordial and his conversation so good he stayed with him eight day es discoursing with him of the vanities of the World and the Soveraign happiness or summum bonum of mankind which they setled in a tranquil contempt for the pleasures of this life The day of his depart came at last and though he would have excused himself with many Complements from taking one of the Mules which the Curate offered him it was not in his power to do it but engaged in requital to keep a perpetual correspondency with this honest Parson and divert his solitude sometimes with the news of the Court Our Adventurer having thus taken his leave was spurr'd with a desire of being at Madrid which made him infuse the like passion into his Mule whose legs were better than those of that other whose weariness had brought him into all this Adventure Adventure the ninth IT would have been very necessary for Don Diego to have stayed a little longer with this venerable Church-man for it may be his conversation in time might have reformed something of the extravagancy of his customs As soon as ever he came to Madrid he sent word of his arrival to all his Camerades desiring them to meet him at the old Club which was at a Tavern where the best Wine was sold Eight of this mad gang failed not at the assignation and there having renewed their acquaintance and confirmed their League by some Bachuick Ceremonies they all walked out with their Guittars after some Serenades given to their respective Mistresses they stopped before an Apothecaries door whom they resolved to make the subject of that Nights entertainment It was Don Diego that did bear him a spight ever since the great disease he had when Leander dyed and his Wife turned Nun for this Apothecary being Diego's Neighbour had out of malice seeing that our Adventurer did not make use of him caused his Prentices to make such a damnable noise upon two brass Mortars all day long that it was impossible for Don Diego to sleep his intreaties and prayers had signified nothing towards the silencing of the Mortars for he was still answered that he must follow his Trade and that Seignior Don Diego would not keep him and his family if they should neglect their vocation to let him enjoy his rest so that at last he was fain to fine for silence for a fortnight at a pretty round rate and that at the end of his disease too having suffered much before by that troublesome chiming All this considered and by our Adventurer related to the Company inflamed them who were already heated with Wine to a desire of revenge but Diego who was chiefly concerned resolved also to be the main actor and advancing to the door bounced at it as if he would have beat it down the Apothecary who was just got to bed was loath to rise but answering from his bed began the following Dialogue with Don Diego affecting still a little Latin in it to shew he had enough to understand the Doctors bill The Apothecary Who 's that that knocks so hastily ad Portam meam either they are insipid fellows or worshipfull Constable for none else durst be so bold at this time of the Night Don