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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88621	The loves and adventures of Clerio & Lozia. a romance. Written originally in French, and translated into English by Fra. Kirkman, Gent.	Du Périer, Antoine.; Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3260; Thomason E1289_2; ESTC R202767	66,013	191

THE LOVES AND ADVENTVRES OF CLERIO LOZIA A ROMANCE Written Originally in French and Translated into English By Fra. Kirkman Gent. LONDON Printed by J. M. and are to be sold by William Ley at his shop at Pauls Chain 1652. TO His much honored Friend WIL. BEESTON Esq Worthy Sir DIvers times in my hearing to the admiration of the whol Company you have most judiciously discoursed of Poësie which is the cause J presume to chuse you for my Patron and Protector who are the happiest interpretor and judg of our English Stage-Playes this Nation ever produced which the Poets and Actors of these times cannot without ingratitude deny for J have heard the chief and most ingenious of them acknowledg their Fames Profits essentially sprung from your instructions judgment and fancy J am vers'd in Forraign tongues and subscribe to your opinion that no Nation ever could glory in such Playes as the most learned and incomperable Johnson the copious Shakespear or the ingenuous Fletcher compos'd but J beleeve the French for amorous language admirable invention high atchievements honorable Loves inimitable constancy are not to be equalled and that no Nation yeilds better Arguments for Romance Playes the onely Poëms now desired then the French Therefore and for you have I translated the Adventures and Loves of Clerio and Lozia and I doubt not though they fail to receive incouragement from you your son Mr George Beeston whom knowing men conclude a hopeful inheritor of his Fathers rare ingenuity may receive them with a gracious allowance And sir though the work be not entirely happy in your construction for my years are not arrived to knowledg to add where the Author wants matter or to lessen where he abounds yet you will find much newness in the Story worthy an excellent Poët to insoul it for the Stage where it wil receive ful perfection equal to the ambition of The constant admirer of your Excellent Parts Fra. Kirkman jun. THE Loves and Adventures OF CLERIO and LOZIA THe Fortune of Man is an obscure riddle which Time only the most Orthodox Interpretor of the Heavens of the Gods and Nature can truely explicate My Ladies The Fortune of the Famous Clerio and the fair Lozia whose lives and loves are both delineated in this insuing History I present to you with this perswasion That as a pleasant Land-skip it will yeild some small contentment to your mindes and recreation unto your Spirits In the Description of whose variable conditions I will first begin with Clerio whom with my pen I will portrait before your eyes as our chiefest and choisest Judges This young Gentleman from his youth being indued with courage and induced by curiositie went abroad into Forraign parts to see the customs of those places to add by industry some higher degree of perfection to that which Nature amorous of him had so freely bestowed upon him After he had seen Germany and the Eastern Countries he stayed three whole years in Italy where he was accounted so perfect and exact in all sorts of exercises becoming a Gentleman that it was impossible to finde any man more perfectly accomplished then himself This Merchant for honour having made a successfull adventure returned home to the Court full fraught both with glory and renown which durst I say so was empty during his absence of the greatest part of its splendor who was not like a star of the first Magnitude shining brightly in the firmament thereof but as a glorious Sun whose presence brought a day and whose absence a night upon the Horizon of the Court which did not only inlighten it but sliding from the eyes it crept into the hearts of the fairest Ladies the Court afforded who at the first sight of so lovely a wonder were wonderfully enamored of him Clerio not setling the circumference of his desires in the center of any of their hearts which were so desirous of his but as a triumphant Conqueror carried al theirs captives into Spain leaving them behind to bemoan their misery in so happy yet unhappy affections where also he murthered a Million of innocent lovers by an over-rigid disdain of their beauties but they were soon avenged on him for this rigorous dealing for not long after he became exceedingly in love with the Princess Lozia who was young rich and very beautiful equally adorned with pulchritude in her face and perfection of parts in her mind And although Clerio was a gentleman but worth fifteen thousand Francs of revenue yet did he undertake to serve so noble a Princess who since the decease of her Father and Mother was under the Gardianship of the Duke of Blanfort her Uncle who intended to match her to the Duke of Doudonne his Son and for fear any other should espouse her he watched her so narrowly above the common custome of the Country both with Argo's and with Lynk's eyes and kept her within so straitned limits that if Clerio could by chance see her yet could by no means come to speak to her Fill'd with love and despair he did so diligently inquire and carefully pursue his desired wishes that at last he came to know her Lady of honour which was named Vincia and was a French Gentlewoman the death of whose husband did so exceedingly afflict her that she was constrained to banish her self by a voluntary exile into Spain Clerio being very joyfull of this news procured the sight of her whom at the first view he knew not although she was his neer Kinswoman because he had not lately seen her and which was the strangest she was acoutred after the Spanish fashion but in fine after a thousand hearty congratulations and welcome imbracements they promised to owe each the other so much service and affection that under this pretext Clerio visited Vincia every day not so much because his respects unto his Cousin did oblige him thereto as he was drawn thither by the attractive loadstone of lovely Lozia The Moon had six severall times received its borrowed light before Clerio durst discover unto his Cousin that affection which he bore to her Mistress but at last not being able to resist those fervent flames that the eyes those two glorious Suns of that famous Princess had kindled in his heart meeting one day with Vincia in the Garden thus aboarded her Vincia do not you know seeing my countenance altered and my face so wan that there is also a change in my heart which appeareth thus upon my brows and that if you were very quick sighted and had but a window to open into my heart you would see the Characters of love so deeply ingraven thereon that the very perusall of them would sufficiently acquaint you with my dolefull condition Vincia being overtaken with sorrow and impatience interrupted his discourse saying Clerio I never had so sensible an apprehension of any afflictions as of that which your dolorous speeches have caused in my heart alas whence hath so sudden a change as since yesterday happened