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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48230	Zayde a Spanish history, or, romance / originally written in French by Monsieur Segray ; done into English by P. Porter, Esq.; Zaïde. English	La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.; Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, 1624-1701.; Porter, P.	1678 (1678)	Wing L172A; ESTC R23097	82,422	192

ZAYDE A Spanish History OR ROMANCE Originally Written in French By Monsieur Segray Done into English by P. Porter Esq The First Part. London Printed for William Cademan at the Popes-Head in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand 1678. TO THE High-Born and Mighty PRINCE Henry Fits-Roy Duke of Grafton Earl of Euston Vicount Ipswich Baron of Loestoffe c. My Lord THe Honour I had once to be Yours gives me the boldness to affix your Graces Name before this Book made English in your Service at those vacant hours I could borrow from the Function of my Employment It is a Romance but so like a True Story that your Grace may reap by it the use and profit of a true History It was a good Tale in Monsieur Segrays dress therefore I must humbly beg your Graces pardon if I have spoil'd it in the Telling The scope of it is chiefly to shew the deformity of Treachery Ingratitude the Folly and Mischiefs of ill-grounded Jealousies as also to punish Vice and reward Vertue though Vertue be Pulcherrima merces ipsa sibi Yet if not cultivated and applyed it may be truly said of her as in this our Age is made out Virtus Laudatur alget But if we may ground our Conjectures upon those early Rayes of hopeful Goodness which breaks forth like a glorious Morn from your tender Years we may with Assurance promise the World that You will not starve her And that the Riches and Beauty of your Mind will in time out-shine that of your Body in which although the Majesty of your Great Sire and the lovely features of your Mother at once dasle and surprize the eyes and the hearts of all that see you yet the clearness of your Understanding the quickness of your Apprehension the happiness of your Memory your Gracefulness and Manly carriage in performing all your Exercises your Solidity in Reasoning well-grounded assurance in Discoursing even with the greatest and most Learned men may confirm us in our most assured Hope that if the Almighty be graciously pleased to prolong your Life you will out-doe our just expectations of You. And that when you are called by the Prerogative of your Blood to publick Employments you will embrace them not as prises of Ambition Oppression Injustice and Covetousness but as your proper Sphere wherein you will move most usefully for the Service of God the safety and honour of your Prince and Country nourishing Arts and Vertue wheresoever you find them And that when all occasions of the publick are at a stand you will be able most profitably to actuate upon your self as the properest object of your Industry God having made you so rich a Soil that you will be still improvable and rather chuse to bestow your time in Cultivating the rich mines of your Great and Princely Soul of which you give daily most clear demonstrations to all those that have the honour to Converse with you than to suffer your self to be carryed away by the ill managery of others or by the example or imitation of such who Mispend their times in evil Conversation and worse Manners and that you will not let so hopeful a Field produce a degenerate Crop having this Maxim still in mind That 't is Vertue alone that can make you powerful and happy and that nothing but Vice and the practise thereof can debase what was intended so Great I therefore most humbly beseech your Grace to pardon this my boldness and to accept this small Oblation of this First Part of Zayd with that goodness which is so natural to you from one whose chiefest Ambition has been since he had the honour to know and serve your Grace to approve himself My Lord Your Graces most Obedient and most Faithful Humble Servant P. Porter Spanish History A NOVELL Written in FRENCH by MOVNSIER SEGRAIS FIRST PART SPAIN began to Free it self from the Dominion of the Moors its People who had Retired into the Asturies had laid the Foundation of the Kingdom of Leon Those who had withdrawn themselves into the Pyrenean Mountains begun the Kingdom of Navarr There were that raised themselves to be Counts of Barcelona and Arragon so that in a Hundred and Fifty Years after the Invasion of the Moors more than half Spain found it self delivered from their Tyranny Amongst all the Christian Princes that then Reigned there there was none more powerful than Alphonso King of Leon Sur-named The Great His Predecessors had joyned Castile to their Kingdom At first this Province was Commanded by Governours who in process of Time had made their Governments Hereditary and People begun to apprehend that they would set up for the Soveraignty They were called Counts of Castile whereof the most powerful were Diego Porcellos and Nugnes Fernando this last was considerable for the vast Extent of his Territories and the Greatness of his Understanding And his Children were instrumental for the Preservation not only of his Fortune but enlarging of its Bounds He had a Son and a Daughter of extraordinary Beauty His Son whose Name was Gonsaluo whom nothing in all Spain might equal his Person and Wit had something in them so admirable that it seem'd Heaven had made him differ from the rest of Man-kind Some important Reasons had obliged him to quit the Court of Leon and the sensible Displeasures he had there received induced him to the Designe of leaving Spain and to retire into some solitary Place He came into the remotest Parts of Catalonia with intention to ship himself in the first Vessel he should find bound for any of the Grecian Ilands The careless Disposition he was in made him often neglect the Roads he had been shewn so that instead of passing the River Elbe at Tortose as he had been directed he followed the Course of the River almost to the Place where it disembogues it self into the Sea there he perceived he had lost his Way He inquires if there were never a Barque there 'T was told him That in that Place there would be none to be found but that if he pleased to go to a little Port not far off he might find some that would carry him to Tarragone He goes to this Port lights off his Horse and asked of some Fisher-men he met with If there were not any Shallop ready to put to Sea As he was talking to them A Man that was walking pensively by the Shore-side being surprized with his Beauty and good Meine stood still to consider him and having over-heard what he asked of those Fisher-men he made Answer That all the Barques were sayled for Tarragon and that they would not return untill the next Day and that he could not Embarque until the next Day after Gonsaluo who at first did not perceive him turning his Head towards that Voyce was as much surprized with the good Aspect of this unknown Man as the Stranger had been with his He saw in him something of Great and Noble and full