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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03845	An epitome of the history of faire Argenis and Polyarchus, extracted out of the Latin, and put in French, by that great and famous writer, M. N. Coeffeteau Bishop of Marseilles. And translated out of the French into English by a yong gentlevvoman. Dedicated to the Lady Anne Wentvvorth; Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis. English	Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623.; Man, Judith.; Barclay, John, 1582-1621. Argenis.	1640 (1640)	STC 1396; ESTC S104485	26,786	88

AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF FAIRE ARGENIS AND POLYARCHUS Extracted out of the Latin and put in French by that Great and Famous Writer M. N. COEFFETEAV Bishop of Marseilles And translated out of the French into English by a yong GENTLEVVOMAN DEDICATED To the Lady ANNE WENTVVORTH LONDON Printed by E. G. for Henry Seile at the Tygers head in Fleetstreet 1640. TO THE MOST VERTVOVS MY MOST HONORED LADY THE LADY ANNE WENTWORTH Eldest Daughter To the Right Honorable the Earle of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland MADAM IT is not needfull I should use many words to let You know that this Booke belongs to Your Ladiship It sufficing that You know I am Yours since You gave me the liberty to call my selfe so when I had the Honour to bee admitted into the House of my Lord Your Father where my Parents did introduce me and where I have profited neere You and my Lady Arabella Your Sister as in a Schoole of Vertue whence it followes that Jonely give You that which is Yours being found in me and though it should be otherwise I could not present it to any one that deserved it better then Your selfe The reading of this Epitome MADAM which I dedicate unto You as being Yours and which I put to light under Your protection will represent ARGENIS unto You as the Fairest most Vertuous and Constant Princesse of Her time And I have thought reading this History that I have seene Your true portraiture in the person of this Faire Lady For making a Parallell of this Princesse with Your Honour I finde You very suteable yea I can witnesse with truth that You surpasse Her since that besides the Beauty of the Body wherewith Nature hath endowed You You are also inrich'd with that of the Soule beyond measure and as touching Vertue whereof You are a Patterne You excell Her being Vertue it selfe You have besides the knowledge of the True GOD which is the Ground and Basis thereof and whereof our ARGENIS was ignorant and as for Constancy You have not I dare say Your equall seeing You are resolved to be conformable unto the Will of GOD and of my Lord Your Father To which may bee added Your Birth as well as unto our ARGENIS which makes You truely worthy to beare the Pearled Crowne wherewith my Lord Your Father hath beene Honoured without asking or intercession but by the Kings onely Will who gave it Him for His eminent Vertue and good Services being of the number of those of whom the French Proverbe makes mention saying TEL DEMANDE ASSEZ QUI BIEN SERT And to conclude MADAM I say that-even as it hath pleased GOD to fill our ARGENIS with Joy and Content giving Her Her POLIARCHUS as the most Compleat Prince of the Earth He may send You for Your and Your most Honourable Parents Comfort a Husband worthy of You And I am confident Hee will bee farre Compleater then POLIARCHUS These are the Wishes MADAM Of your most humble most affectionate most obedient and most obliged servant Judith Man To the Courteous Reader Gentle Reader my humor inclining to Melancholy induces me sometimes to seeke in my Closet for some diversion in the reading of Bookes suteable to a Gentlewoman of my quality and of eighteene yeeres of age That is it wherein I have most perticularly applied my selfe this Christmas and amongst the rest in the reading of this Booke which hath pleased me not only for the subject whereof it treats but also comming from the hands of an Author whose memory I honor though of a contrary Beliefe to mine because that being in France in my Parents company I have heard a great esteeme to be made of him as of the most learned Prelate of his time So as I might make my selfe so much the more perfect in the French tongue I resolved to translate it for my owne particular satisfaction having no other designe then to warme my selfe therewith as I have done with some others But I could not make this Worke so secretly but that those who watch over my actions and endeavour my diversion had notice thereof by whom I have beene in a manner forc'd least I should trangresse against the Law of God to expose it to the publike view And all the favour which I could obtaine hath beene to suffer mee to make choice of a second ARGENIS under whose Protection I sent it And J intreat thee Gentle Reader to oblige me so farre as not to presume that J doe it out of vanity because it is not without example and could produce thee many of my sexe who have traced me the way witnesse the translation into French of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia the New Amarantha and the Vrania with many others neither have I done it to be spoken of knowing very well that those of my sexe who are least spoken of are the more to bee esteemed But onely have I done it by meere obedience and duty therefore I pray thee to excuse the faults if there be any and remember that women for the most part are unacquainted with the studie of Sciences and by that meanes may sooner erre Also I esteeme that thou art Courteous enough to use mee according to the courtesie and custome due to the Ladies of this Countrie where I was borne And of whose Priviledge I make use giving ARGENIS the precedency rather then unto POLIARCHVS in the Frontispice of this Booke And in so doing I shall not be a little obliged to thee J. M. The Stationer to the Reader GEntlemen I should not hold my selfe satisfied with my Impression if I did not tell you that I hold it for a favour in the beginning of this yeare to see my Shop adorned with this little Volume which comes from the hands of one of the most Vertuous and Comeliest Gentlewomen of this Countrey and which belies not her birth which is truely Noble And but that shee is full of respect and humility towards ARGENIS and the FAIRE LADV unto whom she hath Dedicated this Worke they could make the most agreeable concordance that could be seene Also viewing them together though with the eyes of the minde I imagine I see the Graces or those three Faire Goddesses which puzzled so much that Judge of Beauty And therefore I desire You Gentlemen to esteeme it as this reputation merits that you may not but applaud her to the end that hereafter she may make you partakers of her lucubrations and in case you finde any faults attribute them unto the Printer for they are his as proceeding from the Impression God preserve you THE HISTORY OF FAIRE ARGENIS AND POLIARCHUS EPITOMIZ'D FORTUNE proud and insolent beyond all imaginationd emands a sumptuous Theater to cause the might of Her Empire to appeare It is in the Court of Great Kings where She elevates the Trophies of Her tyranny where She brandishes Her vanity It is there that She takes delight to breake a Scepter a sunder to overthrow a Crowne and to tread under