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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48269	The famous romance of Tarsis and Zelie. Digested into ten books. / VVritten originally in French, by the acute pen of a person of honour. ; Done into English by Charles Williams, Gent.; Tarsis et Zelie. English. 1685	Le Vayer de Boutigny, M. (Roland), 1627-1685.; Williams, Charles, 17th cent.	1685 (1685)	Wing L1797; ESTC R25799	390,801	342

The Valley of Tempe LONDON Printed for Nath Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry 1684. THE FAMOUS ROMANCE OF Tarsis and Zelie Digested into TEN BOOKS VVritten Originally in FRENCH By the Acute Pen of a Person of HONOUR Done into ENGLISH By CHARLES WILLIAMS Gent. LONDON Printed for Nathanael Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry 1685. To the Right Honourable GEORGE Earl of BERKELEY Viscount Duresly Lord Berkeley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce Baron of Berkeley-Castle Governour of the Levant Company c. MY LORD SInce 't is become modish to make Dedications of Books to Persons of Honour and high Quality amongst whom your Lordship is worthily ranked one of the greatest in Eminency I humbly make bold to Present this to your Patronage being the Fruit of some spare Hours of Recreation spent barely in the Translation out of the Original from which I have not Deviated I hope to obtain your Lordships acceptance which I shall look on as a Signal Addition to your obliging Favours to my self and several of my Worthy Friends both at home and abroad My Design being chiefly to testifie my Gratitude to your Honour until I am capable to make some more effectual Demonstration of Real Services who am Right Honourable Your Lordships most Humble Servant C W. London the 12 th of November 1684. TO THE READER TElamon and Tarsis two Sons of Alcidias one of the chiefest of the Inhabitants of the Vally of Tempe wherein he had large Revenues called there a Shepherd as were the Prime Nobility of that Region having sent them to be Trained up in their Youth in Greece in the Schools of the most Learned Philosophers amongst whom having gained great Repute by their Proficiency in Learning they betook themselves to Forraign Travels and then to Military Imployments when they changed their Names to Kion and Leonides and under those Appellations signalized themselves in Martial Exploits and Feats of Arms Fighting under the Banners of the Greatest Princes then waging War against their Enemies whom having Conquered they retired into their own Country wherein they were Vanquished themselves by two Fair Ladies Sisters with whom they fell in Love who called themselves Shepherdesses Daughters of Leucippe and the Grave Matron his Wife called Melicerte Telamon obtaining his end Espousing the Eldest Daughter who was Marvellously Vertuous Tarsis endeavouring the same with the Youngest though with much more difficulty would have succeded in his Design had not unkind Fortune frustrated it and deprived him of his Fair and Beloved Zelie whose Favour and Affection he had gained with the Approbation of her Parents whose Filial Obedience and Modesty was as Wonderful as her End was supposed Tragical These Brothers who Reciprocally Imbarked themselves in the Success and Calamities of each other acted a large part and became the Subject of a considerable share in the ensuing Discourse calling themselves Shepherds were serviceable to many once Potent Princes who by Vicissitudes and Change of Fortunes were agitated and tossed betook themselves to these Brothers for Shelter Succour Advice and Assistance and obtained it The Variety of the Passages and Actions both by Land and Sea Discoursed of in this Treatise are far too Numerous to be inserted in a Preface and are as well pleasant as profitable What Faults may have Occurred from my Pen or the Press the Reader is desired to Correct and put a favourable Interpretation upon The Author to ZELIE I Know not my Shepherdess whether you will not accuse me of Infidelity and whether it be not Treachery to your Chastity to oblige you to appear in Publick in a condition where I promised you should only appear amongst your best Friends They would not have seen you thus slighted if you had believed you had been exposed to the Eyes of Strangers you would have taken some care to appear Adorned or you would have desired me not to have obliged you to come out of Tempé and to have left you in that delightful Desart there to Enjoy the Society of your Faithful Shepherd in the Delight of a Rustick Life and in the Delicacies of your perfect Friendship Will you not even tell me that I have Conducted you into a Kingdom where time out of Mind the Shepherdesses were not accustomed to mingle themselves or to have conversed with the rest of the World and if any have appeared there otherwise with a Glimps it was that they were come in an Age where Beauties were very Rare and where Princesses and Ladies did no wrong to those of Shepherdesses In Sum with what Splendor can you hope to appear in this Day in Presence of Cassandra Cleopatra and which is more in those of Mandane and Clelie Truly my Shepherdess it appears that you have had great reason to be a Party in these Complaints against me And perhaps I am the less excusable that if I have in that done you such an Injury they may alledg that I have done yet a greater to my self For if in short you should have left that Reputation of being Fair which you have so Auspiciously Acquired amongst our Shepherds at least-wise they could not deny you those excellent qualifications of Modesty and Vertue as for me whatever Vertue what Modesty and what even Beauty you could have been Garnished withal I foresaw they would not have left me blameless to have fastned my self too much to a Shepherdess and abandoned the most serious Employments for an Occupation which they deemed no otherwise Pardonable than have they of the Idleness of those who have no others But notwithstanding all that I cannot Repent of my Resolution and after all my Shepherdess I suppose you ought not to complain your self if you should lose the Reputation of being Fair you would have lost but that which you have always despised As for me what Imports it to be condemned since I desire not to be known it is not that I am uncapable to answer those who blame the Tie that I have had for you which hath never diverted me even one small Moment from those Occupations which they call the most Solid and which have gratefully diverted me without any perplexity But I have kept my self my Dear Zelie from any other thoughts than those of Loving you that otherwise were a Crime that had need of some Justification But contrarily that of our Affection which I will make my chiefest Honour as it hath hitherto done that of my Joy And that is to Immortalize if I could the Remembrance I have for you and to Proclaim it throughout the World I would tell you that it is true that I take Pleasure to trace to Posterity even by the same Means a Draft or Lineament of the same Spirit and of the Qualities of our Incomparable Ergaste to leave after his Decease an Eternal Monument of that Excellent Friendship which united us during his Life which serves me as a Ligament which joyns with your Hazards and which declares and speaks forth those of his and to