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A31224 La picara, or, The triumphs of female subtilty display'd in the artifices and impostures of a beautiful woman, who trapann'd the most experienc'd rogues, and made all those unhappy who thought her handsome : originally a Spanish relation, enriched with three pleasant novels / render'd into English with some alterations and additions by John Davies ...; A lo que obliga el honor. English Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648?; Davies, John, 1625-1693.; Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648? Garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas. 1665 (1665) Wing C1232A; ESTC R19065 175,851 314

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LA PICARA OR THE TRIUMPHS OF Female Subtilty Display'd in the Artifices and Impostures of a Beautiful Woman who Trapann'd the most experienc'd Rogues and made all those unhappy who thought her handsome Originally A Spanish Relation Enriched with three Pleasant NOVELS Render'd into English with some Alterations and Additions By JOHN DAVIES of Kidwelly LONDON Printed by W. W. for John Starkey at the Mitre within Temple-Bar 1665. IMPRIMATUR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Septemb. 30th 1664. To the worthily Honoured Sir JOHN BERKENHEAD KNIGHT Master of the Faculties and Master of the Requests to his Majesty and one of the Members of the Honourable House of Commons SIR THe world is come to that improvement of experience as to account Dedicatories more certain acknowledgements of obligation than any Noverint Universi especially when there is a great distance of Quality between those by whom they are made and those to whom they are directed That this should be thought such I am rather pleas'd than troubled since my being oblig'd argues my being known to you and consequently that from the one I derive a satisfaction from the other an advantage The last Piece which came abroad under my obscure name was The Travels of the Embassy from the Duke of Holstein into Muscovy and Persia The excellent Person who was the original Author of it Olearius oblig'd with us most of the Neighbouring Nations who also rendred his work into their several Languages I am told it was not unkindly receiv'd here onely the occasion I have to speak of it now is that the coming forth of the English Translation with greater lustre than haply it had done otherwise is among those of some others due to your encouragement But I am not to date your notice of me from that I must descend much lower to a Time wherein you thought it dangerous to know or be known to many Be not startled when dangers are over there remains onely a pleasing remembrance of them It was long before the Committee at Derby-House was advanc'd into a Councel of State an Age since considering the subsequent reign of Tyranny and Barbarism and the perpetual alarms and frights whereto worry'd Loyalty was every where expos'd These you have happily weather'd out and seen the contrivers thereof at last overtaken by the slow pace of divine Vengeance an advertisement to All Christians and Lay-Elders who either gratulate or envy you the favours of a Prince for whom you would have run yet greater hazards As to the Piece I now present you with I have onely this to say It is a Spanish Relation written by D. Alonso de Castillo Savorsano a famous Author of that Nation One of the most refin'd Wits of France thought it worth his pains to render it into the Language of his Country with all the graces and advantages it might derive from either I have done it out of the latter with a freedome of alteration and addition as my fancy led me to make it the most divertive I could in ours which is the onely recommendation of all things of this nature My Author promises his Readers a continuation of the Story if what is already publish'd be kindly entertain'd I do mine the like upon the same precaution but with this particular inducement That it will give me further occasion to assure the world how much I am Sir Your most humble and very much obliged Servant J. DAVIES Books Printed for and Sold by John Starkey at the Mitre betwixt the middle Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar in Pleetstreet Folio's THe Voyages and Travels of the Duke of Holstein's Ambassadors into Muscovy Tartary and Persia begun in the year 1633. and finisht in 1639. containing a Compleat History of those Countries whereto are added the Travels of Mandelslo from Persia into the East-Indies begun in 1638. and finisht in 1640. The whole illustrated with divers accurate Maps and Figures written originally by Adam Olearius Secretary to the Embassy Englished by J. Davies of Kidwelly The World Surveyed or the famous Voyages and Travels of Vincent le Blanc of Marseilles into the East and West-Indies Persia Pegu Fez Morocco Guinny and through all Africa and the principal Provinces of Europe A Practical and Polemical Commentary or Exposition upon the third and fourth Chapters of the latter Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy by Thomas Hall B. D. Brevia Judicialia or an Exact Collection of approved forms of all sorts of Judicial Writs in the Common-Bench together with their returns by Rich. Brownlow Thesaurus Brevium or a Collection of approved forms of Original and Judicial Writs in the King's Bench with their special Directions by J. C. Action upon the Case for Slander or a Methodical Collection of thousands of Cases in the Law of what words are Actionable and what not by William Shepherd Esq Guillim's Display of Heraldry Blundel's Treatise of the Sybels A General Collection of Discourses of the Virtuosi of France upon Questions of all sorts of Philosophy and other Natural Knowledge made in the Assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most Ingenious persons of that Nation English'd by G. Havers The Common-wealth of Oceana by J. Harrington Esq Quarto's A Collection of Declarations Messages Speeches Remonstrances c. which passed betwixt King Charls the first and the long Parliament in the years 1641 1642 1643. Baxter's Treatise of Saving Faith The History of Gavel-kind with the Etymology thereof containing a vindication of the Laws of England together with a short History of William the Conqueror by Sylas Taylor Andronicus Comnenius a Tragedy by John Wilson Heraclius Emperour of the East a Tragedy by Lodowick Carlel Esq Octavo's An Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazones in America with an exact Map thereof Translated out of French The Shepherd's Paradise a Pastoral by Walter Mountague Esq Aminta the famous Italian Pastoral translated into English Plowden's Queries or a Moot Book of choice Cases in the common-Common-Law Englished Methodized and Enlarged by H. B. An Exact Abridgement of all the Statutes in force and use made in the 16th 17th and 18th of King Charls the first and in the 12th 13th 14th 15th and 16th of King Charls the second viz. from the 4th of Jan. 1641 2. to the 24th of Novemb. 1664. by William Hughs Esq Finch's Discourse of the Law in four Books Engl. Tho. Goodwin Opuscula Theolog. Lat. Tho. Hall Apologia pro Ministerio Evangelico Lat. Translation of the second Book of Ovid's Metamorph. Treatise against the Millenaries The works of the famous Mr. Francis Rabelais treating of the Lives of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel to which is newly added the Life of the Author translated out of French into English by Sir Thomas Urchard Kt. Rome exactly describ'd as to the present state of it under Pope Alexander the seventh in two curious Discourses written in Italian and English'd by J. B. Twelves Hooker's Missellanies in Divinity Baxter's Call to the Unconverted LA PICARA OR