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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78017	Balzac's remaines, or, His last letters· Written to severall grand and eminent persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Chapelain, Jean, 1595-1674.; Dring, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B616; Thomason E1779_1; ESTC R209057	331,826	458

BALZAC'S REMAINES Or his last LETTERS WRITTEN To severall Grand and Eminent Persons in FRANCE Whereunto are annexed the Familiar Letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his Friend Monsieur CHAPELAIN Never before in English LONDON Printed for Thomas Dring at the George in Fleet-street neer St. Dunstans Church 1658. Mounseur de BALZAC R. Gaywo●d fecit THE STATIONER TO THE READERS GENTLEMEN I Am not ignorant that the Book which now fills your hands is uncapable to receive either Supplement or Ornament from any Preface And it may be in these wild times there are few can be accused of such a degree of Conceitednesse as 〈◊〉 imagine that Balzac may be Complemented Let this letter then be reckoned as a Tax payd to Custome being sadly sensible that the labours of greatest merit are like to suffer as abrupt rude except the Reader be courted and invited in the Dedication There is one grievance more which I earnestly deprecate You commonly date the worth of the book from the Abilities you taste in the Epistle and if this Humor prevaile here I am Undone Besides you destroy my harmless designe which was to try whether the Noble conceptions of the Monsieur would admitt of any Advantage and appear more orient as they are foil'd by this trifle If any shall dispute the Decency of the Title and aske How these letters came to be call'd choise since none fell from the same incomparable pen which did not challenge the same Denomination J shall easily yeeld but must crave leave to affirme that by persons of high discernment these have bin gather'd as prime Stars from the other Sporades and are here presented in one entire Constellation There was nothing but Gold in the whole Mine but here you will find such as has bin tried and stamp'd and pass'd in all places not only Currant but Admir'd He is much a stranger to the world that does not know that the style of Monsieur Balzac was consider'd in France as the Treasure and Test of Elegance And he was esteem'd the best proficient in that which they call flos linguae the Delicacy fineness and Idiom of language who had attayn'd the nearest Resemblance of this Author Observe the vigour and flame of his fancy the Cleannesse and Roundnesse of his expression the spirit and brisknesse of his Notions the prudence and Insinuation of all his Addresses and you will judge him a fit Parallel for any of his Predecessors that Rome or Athens has most celebrated The Comedian was handsomely caress'd by him that said If Jupiter would speake Latine He might find Apparrell for his thoughts in Plautus his wardrobe Possibly if the same Jove had occasion to transmit his pleasure those Gods wanting the mysticall waies of Communication which we now ascribe to spirits he had chosen no other Mercury but this Frenchman I am unwilling to be guilty of so much folly as to define or distinguish Letters and then list them under their severall Colours descanting upon those perfections which render them peculiarly gratefull to knowing men lest any should suspect that this one Letter was not written by my selfe Gentlemen I shall not blush to acknowledge that 't is much my Interest this volume should be generally read For I believe there is Charme enough in it to dissolve the most covetous Resolutions And that such revenues of pleasure and improvement will arise from the perusall of this book as may prevailingly tempt the greatest husbands to buy more Your humble servant THOMAS DRING Books Printed for Thomas Dring and are to be sold at the George in Fleet-street near St. Dunstans Church Law-Books THe Pleader containing perfect Precedents and Forms of Declararions Pleadings Issues Judgements and Proceedings in all kinds of actions both reall and personall by Mr. Brownlow Mr. Moyle Mr. Gulston and Mr. Cony published by J. Hern Gent. in Folio The Law of Conveyances of all manner of assurances with directions to sue out and prosecute all manner of Writs by John Hern Gent. in Octavo The Reports of that reverend and learned Judge Sir Richard Hutton in Folio The twelfth Part of the Reports of Sir Edward Cook in Folio The Reports of that Learned Judge Owen in Folio The Reading upon the Statute touching Bankrupts by John Stone in Octavo An abridgement of the Common Law with the Cases thereof drawn out of the old and new Books of Law for the benefit of all Practisers and Students by W. H. of Graies-Inne Esq in Quarto An abridgement of the Acts and Ordinances of Parliament from 1640. to the year 1656. by W. H. Esq in Quarto The Reports of Serjeant Bridgman in Fol. The grounds of the Lawes of England extracted out of the fountains of all Learning and fitted for all Students and Practitioners in large Octavo A profitable Book of Mr. John Perkins treating of the Lawes of England in Octavo An exact Abridgement of that excellent Book called Doctor and Student in Octavo The Interpreter or Book containing the signification of all the words of the Law by Iohn Cowell in Fol. The Maxims of Reason or the Rule of the Common Law by Edmond Wingate Esq in Fol. An exact Abridgement of all the Statutes in force and use upon the fourth of Jan. in the yeare 1641. 1643. faithfully extracted out of the said Statutes from Magna Charta to the said time by Edmond Wingate Esq Romances ARtamenes or the Grand Cyrus a Romance Compleat in five volumnes in Folio by Monsieur de Scudery Clelia an excellent Romance in three volumes in Folio by Monsieur de Scudery The Illustrious Bassa a Compleat Romance in Folio by Monsieur de Scudery Astrea a new excellent and compleat Romance in three volumes in Folio Translated by a person of honour The History of Polindor and Flaetella a Romance in verse by J. Harrington Esq Histories THe History and lives of the philosophers with their figures in two volumes in Folio by Thomas Stanly Esq The History of the warrs betwixt Swedeland and Poland with all their policyes in Folio by John Fowler An Historicall discourse of the City of London with the History of Westminster with the Courts of Justice Antiquities and new buildings thereunto belonging by James Howell Esq in Folio The History of the Goths Swedes and Vandalls by the Bishop of Vpsall in Folio The History of Masiniello the second part with a Continuation of that tumult and the end of it by J. H. Esq The naturall and experimentall History of winds written by the Lord Bacon and translated into English by R. G. The life and death of Freeman Sands Esq by R. Bereman in quarto Divinity THings new and old or a Store-house of above two thousand Similies Sentences Allegoryes Apophthegms Adagies Apologues divine and morall Politicall and Historicall with their proper applications A book that will furnish the Reader with Rarities for the adornment of his discourse upon any subject whatsoever Anti-Socinianism or a Confutation of Socinian heresy with the description of the lives