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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44891	A treatise of romances and their original by Monsieur Huet ; translated out of French.; Traitté de l'origine des romans	Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.	1672 (1672)	Wing H3301; ESTC R38997	35,979	129

A TREATISE OF Romances AND THEIR ORIGINAL By Monsieur HUET Translated out of French LONDON Printed by R. Battersby for S. Heyrick at Grays Inn Gate in Holborn 1672. Licensed October 21. 1671. Roger L'Estrange THE Translator TO THE READER AS our Manners and People are refin'd Romances also hold pace with us and by the same degrees arrive to perfection Giants Dragons and Enchanted Castles which made so much noise in Romances of former times are now no longer heard of The Composers do now consult Nature and endeavour to exhibit her true and lively Portraict in all their works and so linck Instruction with Delight that while the Reader gapes for this he swallows both they cajole and surprize him into Vertue and make him good when he never dreams on 't But it is not my Province to plead for Romances be they good or bad since they are now so much in vogue in the World and make so considerable a part of the politer Learning 't is presumed the Ingenious have a Curiosity and desire a more perfect account of them then possibly hitherto they have met withall The generality are so much in the dark about these matters they neither know whence they spring nor how they got the name of Romances The two Italian Authors cited in this Treatise were it should seem diligent enough in their researches yet you will find what pitiful conjectures they were forced upon and how wide they shoot from the mark while one would derive it from 〈◊〉 the other from Rheyms You will find in our Author besid●s his great learning and acquaintance with Antiquity a critical wit and correct Judgement many instances whereof are displayd as he traverses Aegypt Phoenicia Arabia Persia Syria and the Indies in pursuance of his design for our Author is not content with Suidas and Photius and what other Magazines of Learning and Monuments are found in Europe but he ransacks the East and makes the Oriental Libraries contributary After our Author has taken survey of these people and considered their Wit Inclination and Genius and critizised upon their Writings and Romances he descendes in course to the famous Bishop of Tricca Heliodorus whom he avows to have excelled all whoever went before him and among other things takes notice of the singular Modesty observed religiously throughout his Work though others say too superstitiously For I find the Criticks are not well pleased that he should make Theagenes give the fair Chariclea a box o'th'Ear once when she would have kist him that have Lovers to do say they with his Episcopal vertues the toyings and little freedoms of Lovers and the reverence of Bishops suit but ill together a Vestal Chastity is none of the accomplishments of an Hero whose Love is above these scrupulous formalities which clog his Noble emotions and agreeable transports They conclude that he had better have burnt his Book ten times over then have made his Hero so absurdly guilty and left so vile an aspersion on his Name After Heliodorus Romances degenerated and yielded to that common fate which shortly after fell upon good Letters and of Natural Exact and Probable became Wild Grotesque and Chymerical and so continued till of late days Monsieur d'Urfee took Pen●● Hand and presented the World with his Astrea which our Author avers to be the most perfect piece that ever was Writ in its kind For all this he escapes the Criticks no better then Heliodorus what notion say they had he of bien-seance when he makes his Heroine Astrea one of the three Shepheardesses who are discovered all naked to Celadon was this confistent with her honour or had not she otherwise sufficient wherewith to complete her Conquest And Silvander say they is made a philisopher to good purpose brought from the famous School of the Massilians to turn Shepheard and in this habit and condition to read Philosophical Lectures and deliver such profound notions as might turn the Brain and confound all the Shepheards in Christendom And is allowed the opportunity to discover his Talent and talk wisely but once in all his life time and that is when nobody hears him Our Author next takes notice of Madamoiselle de Scudery to whom the World is obliged for the Illustrious Bassa Grand Cyrus and Clelia the worth of all which pieces the Reader cannot be ignorant of I shall therefore onely present the Reader with some cavils or exceptions which are made against some particulars in them Some object that her so Illustrious Bassa is no very good Christian and that it was no part of an Heroick vertue to dissemble his Religion His Horns should have been concealed and not his Religion whereas they are made most shamefully notorious to make the Hero a Cuckold say they is such on enormity as but too much bewrays the sex of the Author She very franckly gives him a Wife who make him thankful was no Novice a Woman of experience andone who after three Moneths aboad in the Seraglio gave him to judge whether she had needed any of his instructions They say likewise that whoever had taught this Author her Geography had cheated her extremely The Fleet of this Bassa departed from the Port at Constantinople and at or about the end of three Weeks after were seen Caracaoling in the Caspian Sea 't was merrily Sayled in about three weeks time four hundred Leagues by Land what mortal Ships could do the like in these days She had consulted some Cambridge Burgess to make the High-ways Navigable The Grand Cyrus too say they is as injuriously dealt withall For all his Toyl Travail and Fatigue all his Trophees and Conquests which he Sacrifices to Mandane he is like to have but a sorry bargain of her she having been stoln away four times ere she came to his hands The Grand Cyrus must be so credulous as believe she escapes pure and untouched from all these Ravishers or else this mighty Hero must be content with their leavings Grant she were Chaste these were too unconscionable proofs of her vertue for once peradventure she might come off clear but relapses are always mortal in these cases Her Honour might defend her the first assault but the second bears down all is not to be resisted by a Fort already shaken or by so frayl materials as Flesh and Blood Neither say they has this Author been more favourable to her own Sex Clelia has as much cause to complain of hard usage in assigning her such a paultry Gallant as Aronces Never a younger Brother of Normandy could leave a meaner Idea of his person and vertue then the Heroe of this Romance Suppose one who has neither Page nor Equipage one in a greasie Buff● Doublet who changes his Crabat but once in eight days whose fortune has no establ●shment who spunges upon his friends dining to day with one next day with another and climbes up three Stories h●gh to Bed at Night This is the Portraict of Aronces And because forsooth he was Son