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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62311	The comical romance, or, A facetious history of a company of stage-players interwoven with divers choice novels, rare adventures, and amorous intrigues / written originally in French by the renowned Scarron ; and now turned into English by J.B.; Roman comique. English	Scarron, Monsieur, 1610-1660.; J. B.	1665 (1665)	Wing S830A; ESTC R12793	230,557	440

honest man as he did to the contrary There was nothing but what was very suspicious and mean in him and I appeared to be somewhat above my poore condition rather behaving my self like an Earles than Garigues son And though I am now reduced to the necessity of being an Actor yet I rather construe it a Pique of Fortune against Nature then any oversight of nature in my production or if I may take leave to give you my opinion freely then let me tell you it hath been often observed that Nature takes delight sometimes to confer her favour on those whom fortune hath an unjust aversion for I shall step over the infancy of two young country Boyes for Glaris was by inclination more a Peasant than my self since our chiefest adventures in that unripe age was onely our frequent wrangling and cuffing But thus much by the way when ever we fell together by the Ears I always got the Victory unless my Father or mother took his part in the contest which they did so often and with so much heat and passion that my God father by name Monsieur de Sant Sauveur was troubled at it and begged of my Father to let him have me away To this he consented with much gladnesse my Mother being yet more willing and joyfull then my Father to be rid of my company Thus was I kept at my Godfathers well clad and not ill fed he very much caressing and seldome beating me He spared no cost to have m● taught both to Read and Write well and as soon as I was advanced to an Age capable of undertaking the Latine tongue he perswaded a person of quality his neighbour and a man that had great riches to let me Study with his two Sons under the tuition of a very learned Scholler he had sent for from Paris to whom he gave a very considerable allowance This Gentleman by Name and Title the Baron of Arques bred up his children with a great deal of care The elder was called St. Far a youth of an indifferent good shape but withall bruitish without reclaiming whereas the youngest besides that he was better fashioned then his brother was indued with a vivacity of Spirit and nobleness of mind equal to the comliness of his body In short I do not believe there could be greater appearances or hopes of virtue and signal honesty in any person then were to be found in this Gentleman whose name was Verville He honoured me with his friendship and I loved him as if he had been my own brother ever respecting him like a Master As for Saint Far he was uncapable of every thing but his unruly passions nor can I better express what sentiments his soul cherished for his brother and me then by affirming that he had no more regard or affection for him then for me whom he treated with a careless neglect and had no less love for me then for his brother whom he little valued His divertisements were very different from ours He delighted in nothing but hunting and loathed his studies Verville seldome followed that sport but gave himself much to his books in which we held a rare conformity as in most other things to which my inclination and not complaisance onely prompted me though in civility I was obliged to the last The Baron D Arques had a very fair Library of Romances Our Tutor who had never met with any in his Latin Province and therefore had at first forbidden us the reading them and often condemned them to the Baron there by to render them as despicable as they were pleasing to him was at last so charmed with them himself that after he had devoured both Ancient and Modern he acknowledged that in his opinion the reading of good Romances instructed so delightfully that he believed them no less effectual to stir us up to noble atchievments and polish the minde with Wit and Judgment then Plutarch's works themselves He therefore perswaded us to be conversant in them with as much earnestness as he before prohibited it and bid us in the first place begin with the most Modern but those were yet above our apprehension and till we came to be at the age of Fifteen we found more Gust● in Amadis de Gaule then Astrea and those other curious Romances of a latter date wherein our French Authors have made it appear as well as in a thousand other particulars that though they are not so happy at inventing as other nations yet they exceed them all for imitation and improving We therefore wasted a great portion of the time allowed us for our recreation in the lecture of Romances But as for St. Far he nicknamed us The dull Book-wormes and went each day abroad a hunting or beating the counrey people at which he was very active The inclination I had to study and temperance got me the good will of the Baron of Arques who was as tender of me as if I had been his kinsman He would not part me from his Sons when he sent them to the Accademy about which time an eminent Noble man and one that was related to the Baron D' Arques raising some troops of horse for the Venetians service Saint Far and Verville perswaded their Father so much that he gave them leave to go thither with him The good Gentleman would needs have me venture likewise and Monsieur de Saint Sauveur my God father who lov'd me extreamly freely gave me a very considerable bill of Exchange that I might not be too chargeable to those whom I had the honour to accompany and to make use of upon occasion We took the farthest way about that we might have the sight of Rome and some other of the chiefest Cities of Italy in each of which we made some stay those onely excepted whereof the Spaniards are Masters In Rome I fell sick and the two brothers prosecuted their journey he that carried them not daring to loose the opportunity of the Popes Gallies which were going to joyne with the Venetian Armada about the Dardenellas where they lay in wait for the Turks Vervill was the most sorrowful man that could be to leave me and I almost dispaired to think of his going at that time from me when I hoped to have rendred my self worthy of his affection by some signal service As for Saint Far I think he parted as if he had never seen me nor did I respect him but as the brother of Vervill who left me all the money he could amass together but whether with his brothers consent or not is unknown Thus was I left sick at Rome without any other acquaintance then my Landlord who was a Flemish Apothecary I had all the attendance and assistance that could be desired during my Malady he had no little skill in Physick and according to my poor judgment I found him farr more able then the Italian Doctor that undertook me In the end I recovered and got strength enough to goe and view the most