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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36285	Don Sebastian, King of Portugal an historical novel in four parts / done out of French by Mr. Ferrand Spence.; Dom Sebastian, Roy de Portugal. English.	Spence, Ferrand.	1683 (1683)	Wing D1847; ESTC R1157	90,753	327

MODERN NOVELS VOL. V. CONTAINING I. Don Sebastian King of Portugal II. Agnes de Castro or Fatal Beauty III. Amorous Abbess In Two Parts LONDON Printed for R. Bentley in Russel-street in Covent-Garden 1692. Don Sebastian KING OF Portugal An Historical Novel IN FOUR PARTS Done out of French by Mr. FERRAND SPENCE LONDON Printed for R. Bentley and S. Magnes in Russel-street in Covent-garden 1683. TO THE Right Honourable THE COUNTESS OF STANFORD Madam AN Unfortunate Prince begs Audience of Your Ladiship in hopes of representing His Unhappy Circumstances to be such as that he may with Justice lay claim to Your Ladiships Protection He is sensible that neither His Ambition or rather His Destiny could make Him amends for the Misfortunes they have plung'd Him in than by suffering Him to reappear in the World under Your Ladiships Commission If He succeeds in this Request He questions not to Reign again with as much Glory and Lustre as He was before oppress'd with the Malignity and Perverseness of His Fate To You Madam He flies for Refuge knowing the Whole Universe must pay Veneration to such an Asyle and that the Sactuary cannot but be inviolable that is supported by so much Beauty so much Wit and Vertue He is assur'd His greatest Enemies will be forc'd to court His Reconciliation and Friendship when under Your Colours and that they will freely make Restitution of all the Stars unjustly gave them to His disadvantage rather than incur the Blame and Censure of the present Age and all Posterity For it is Declaring War to All to continue at variance with a Prince under the Guarranty of a Lady whose many Charming Qualities would have obtain'd her even the Adoration of the Ancients But he is most capable of telling His own Story And as for doing You Justice Madam in so nice a Character as that of Your Ladiships a Character that entitles You to the Love of Heaven and demands the Esteem and Admiration of all Mankind is what surpasses the Art and Skill both of Pen and Pencil Every Action of Yours is a Panegyrique of it self You stand in no need of the Daubing either of the Writer or the Painter Daubing I said Pardon the Word Madam but every thing must prove Course that vainly attempts to Copy so perfect an Original So much Merit needs no Historian As it has already rendred You the Favourite of the present Age so Tradition will transmit you to Posterity as an Extraordinary Instance of all the Advantages of Birth and of Fortune of Body and of Mind without any of the Vanities that almost constantly attend these Blessings and Accomplishments in others But this is a Subject so bewitching that it had almost transported me beyond the Bounds of the most profound Respect and Submission wherewith I am Madam Your Ladiships Most humble and most obedient Servant F. SPENCE Don Sebastian KING OF PORTUGAL IN the first Years of the Reign of Don Sebastian Portugal was the most Peaceable and Flourishing Kingdom of all Europe The Divisions and Contests about Religion which so cruelly shattered other Provinces had not spread their fury into that Country And ever since Don Alphonso Henry the first King of Portugal aided by William Long-sword had chaced the Moors out of his Territories the Quiet of that People had not been troubled by any fears This King had hardly attained his fifteenth year but he made himself admired by all his People and fear'd by all his Neighbours The vivacity of his Wit the elevation of his Soul the dexterity he made appear in all his Exercises and the greatness of his Courage rendred him the most accomplished Prince of that Age. He was Handsome well made Valiant and Liberal He had a Majestick Port Royal Inclinations and it seemed as if Nature had taken leisure to form him with all the Qualities that can make a Prince recommendable to Mankind A crowd of young Courtiers who were brought up with him or whom the desire of timely advancing themselves by Employes had drawn from all parts to Lisbon composed his most agreeable Court And as Youth Amours and Pleasures have ever been inseparable and as Love is the first and softest amusement of Mankind all these Courtiers insensibly applyed themselves more to their Mistresses than to their Prince and their hearts being little touched with Ambition made them give sighs to Love when they fancied they rendred Assiduities to Fortune That Court was made up of Persons of extraordinary Merit Queen Katherine the Kings Grandmother was no less elevated above those of her Sex by her Virtue than by her Quality She had ever applyed her self with a great deal of Prudence and Success to dissipate the troubles that threatned the State during the Infancy of Don Sebastian And when this young Prince took upon him the Government of his Kingdom she gave her self entirely to the Practice of all those Virtues that can recommend a Queen to the World The Dutchess of Braganza had a great share of Wit and Beauty and though she had a Son of the same age with the King she despaired not of charming that Prince and employ'd all her Arts to inspire him with Friendship Esteem or Affection She was much in Katherine's favour and managed her self with so much Cunning that Acting as well the part of a Lucretia as of a Gossip she shared in all the Exercises of the Queens Devotion and in all the Matches of the Kings Divertisements The Duke her Husband knowing her heart to be too susceptible of Ambition to be the like of Love suffered her with Tranquility enough at Lisbon with the Young Duke of Barcellos their Son and was himself almost always at his Country-House Eugenia whose Relations had ever had the most considerable Charges of the State admirably well maintained her Quality in that Court She was brown of an advantageous Shape and had a sweet and solid Wit And though she had lost her Father and Mother when she was very young her Carriage had been ever so regular that she gave as much admiration for her Virtue as for her Beauty Christopher de Cavora who was Master of the Horse to the King and his Favourite had a Daughter called Leonora who maugre her tender Age was already the Ornament of the Court and with her Blooming Beauty made the most insensible to tremble That Court was filled with several other Persons who had no less merit than those I have mentioned though they were of a less Elevated condition Violanta was of these last She was Maid of Honour to Jane of Austria a perfect Beauty and infinite Deserts and if her Charms were proper to give Birth to a great Passion her heart was capable of being sensible of the like But all the lustre of the Court was not confined within the Circle of the Beauty of this Sex the Men made there likewise admirable Figures Cardinal Henry Don Sebastian's Uncle had ever made appear great deal of Conduct in the Tutelage that was