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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

least smil● at this Gallantry but as I told you before h● was rather an envious then a risible anima● Rancour then asked him what he though or 〈◊〉 their she Players the Little Fellow answered not but blushed as red as Scarlet Rancour repeated the same question at last stuttering blushing afresh and turning his head aside he told Rancour That he was infinitely taken with one of them And which of the two is it said Rancour The discovery he had already made and this sudden question puzled him so strangely that he replyed I cannot tell nor I neither said Rancour This perplexed him more and made him cry it is it is he repeated the same words four or five several times over which made the Comedian so impatient that he added in troth I believe you she 's a very handsome Girle this confounded him so absolutely that he could never express the particular party and perhaps there was reason for this hesitation for I believe it was rather lust then love that had ceazed his heart but which of the two he most inclined to seduce he knew not himself In fine Rancour naming Madam Star he confessed she was the object of his desires but for my part I believe if he had named Angelica first or her Mother Cave he would have forgiven the rap the one gave him on his knuckles and the others age and have vowed both soul and body to the thing he had named so much was the Goat given up to his pleasure in Women The Player made him toss up another great glass full of Wine to wash down his confusion and drank the like himself after which he told him whispering in his ear and looking round the room as if it had been some weighty secret though he knew well enough no body was near Well Sir Your wound will not prove mortal since you have met with a Love-Chyrurgion that can bring you a Balsom may cure it provided you give faith and keep it secret and yet it is no easie Enterprize for Madam Star is a very Tygress and her Brother Destiny a meer Lion but however I believe you may prove more then her match if you follow my counsel for I know what I know in the mean while let us take off our drink to morrow is a new day The drinking of a fresh health or two interrupted a while their Discourse but then Ragotin again renewed it by giving a Catalogue of his Perfections and Wealth to Rancour and telling him That he had a Nepueu a servant to one of the Treasurers that this Nepueu had made acquaintance with the Partisan la Ralliere during his being at Manse whither he was sent to settle a Tax or Impost and made him believe he would get him as considerable a Salary as any of the Kings Players by this Nepueu 's interest Nay he told him moreover That if any of his Relations had Sons that were Schollers he could procure them some good Benefice or other by the intercession of a Neece of his who was married to a good Womans Brother that was maintained by an● Abbots Steward of that Country who had many good places in his disposal Whilst Ragotin was thus displaying his prowess Rancour who grew thirsty with over-much drinking did nothing but fill the two glasses which were as soon tipt over their tongues again Ragotin not daring to refuse any thing at his hands who was likely to do him so much good At last with swallowing so much they began to grow full Rancour was only a little more serious then before but Ragotin grew so doz'd and heavy that he leaned his head on the Table and fell fast asleep Rancour called for one to come and make ready a bed it being too late to return to his own Inn. The Maid told him She thought it would not be a miss to make ready two seeing what a pickle Monsieur Ragotin was in In the mean time he slept on and never did any man snore louder then himself Two Beds were dressed in the same Chamber where there was a third unused but all the noise they made in putting on the sheets and ordering the Chamber could not disturb our Little Man He called the Wench a thousand Whores and Jades and threatned to slay her when she called him to go to his rest In the conclusion Rancour turned his Chair about towards the fire and then he open'd his eyes and suffered the Maid to uncloath him after which they threw him by main strength between his sheets and Rancour being gotten into Bed likewise puts out the candle after he had bolted the Chamber door An hour afterwards Ragotin rises up and goes out of his Bed for what I cannot readily tell He wanders about the room till he had over-turned most of the chairs and stooles and himself likewise groaping in every corner for his Bed which he could not find again for his heart In the end he lights upon Rancours and wakes him with haling off the cloathes Rancour asked What he would have I am hunting to find my bed said Ragotin You must go towards my left hand sayes Rancour the Little Drunkard creeps to the right and went and nestled himself betwixt the Rugg and the Matt of the third Bed which had neither Bolster nor Sheets yet there he takes out his full nap with a great deal of ease and quiet Rancour in the morning put on his Apparel before Ragotins eyes were open He rouz'd the Drunken Dandy-Prat and asked him whether it were to do pennance that he forsook a good Feather-bed to lye in lousie straw Ragotin maintained he did not remove at all and therefore for certain that Chamber was haunted with Spirits He quarrell'd with the Land-Lord who stood up for his own concern and threatned to Sue him for slandering his house But I have been too tedious in relating Ragotins debauch let us return therefore to the place where I left our Players CHAP. XII A Nocturnal Combat I Am a person of too much honour and sincerity not to Advertise my Courteous Reader that if he be offended with the Fooleries he hath hitherto met with in this present Volume he would do very well to proceed no further for on my credit he shall find no other though my book should swell to the bulk of a Grand Cyrus and if by the pattern he hath seen already he cannot give a guess at the remainder of the piece why he is in no worse condition then my self for by my faith one Chapter begets another I do like the careless Traveller lay the raynes in my Pegasus neck and let him take his own course Or perhaps I may have a studied design without stuffing my Romance with polite discriptions both to divert and teach at the same instant just as the sight of a Drunkard whose Vice gives us caution and aversion while his Apishness makes us tickle with laughter to see the strange effects of Wine But to conclude this Morality and

have lodged upon the bed for they soon guessed it to be one of the House-dogs that had stoln up by those private Stairs and not daring to presume so far without their free consent sighed Dog-like and made the best signs could be expected from a dumb creature by laying his fore-leggs upon the feet of the bed creeping under it when Cave looked at him the first time This could not at the very first take off the impression of its being her poor Daughters Ghost in Stars opinion who not having seen the Hound could not easily be perswaded it was such which though her affliction were great yet afforded her some matter to rally at Stars Cowardize and gave a pause to her History till some fitter time when sleep might be less Welcome and necessary then it was at that season The birth of day began to appear they fell asleep and rose again about ten a Clock having been informed that the Coach which was to convey them to Manse was ready to set forth when they pleased CAAP. IV. Destiny finds Leander IN the mean time Destiny went from Village to Village making inquiry for what he sought but could hear nothing to purpose He ranged over a great deal of Land and made no halt till about two or three of the Clock his own emptiness and his Horses weariness counselled him to return back to a great Town which he had passed a while before He found a pretty comodious Inn as lying upon the Road and forgot not to inform himself whether they had not heard of a Crew of Horse-men that had stollen away a Woman There is a Gentleman above that can tell you some tidings said the Chirurgeon of the Town who hapned to hear his question I believe he hath had some dispute with them said he and is come to the worst I have just now applied a Cataplasme Anodine and resolving upon a livid tumor which he hath on the Vertebrae of the neck and I have dressed a great Wound he received in the Occiput I would have Phlebotomized him because his body is so full of Contusions but he would not suffer it though there is great need of ●it He must needs have had some desperate fall and received many dangerous blows that hath caused those Fractions and Contusions This Country Chirurgeon took so much Pride in repeating his barbarous terms of Art that although Destiny had left him and no body gave attention he continued his learned discourse a great while till at length they came and hurried him away in much hast to let a good Woman bloud who was dying of an Apoplexy In the interim Destiny was go●ten up to the Chamber where the Chirurgeon had directed him He found a young man there very well clad with his head bound and lying on a bed to repose himself Destiny would have framed some excuses for his having entered into the Chamber without his licence But he was very much surprized when at the beginning of his Complement the other raised himself up and came to embrace him making himself known to be Leander his Domestick servant Leander who had left him four or five days before without taking any leave and whom Cave imagined to be her Daughters Ravisher Destiny knew not in what manner he were best to speak to him seeing him so well habited and appearing with so good a meen whilst he was consulting with his thoughts Leander had time to recal his spirits for at the first he seemed very much cast down I am as much ashamed said he to Destiny to have behaved my self with so little sincerity towards a person whom I so highly esteemed but you cannot but excuse a young man who before was happy in your knowledge thought you to be of the same temper of the rest of your profession and so durst not confide so far in you as to discover a secret on which depends all the happiness of his life Destiny told him That he alone could make it appear wherein he had failed in his sincerity I have a great deal more to tell you unless you have been informed of it already replied Leander but in the first place I must beg to know of you what brings you to this place Destiny related to him after what manner Angelica had been stollen and said likewise that he pursued her Ravisher and was informed at his coming to that Inn that he had met with them and could give him a fuller account It is true replyed Leander sighing that I met them and that I acted as much as was possible for one man to do against so many but my Sword breaking in the body of the first I lighted on I neither could rescue Madam ●ngelica nor die in serving her though I were resolved upon the one or the other They put me into the condition you now behold me in having amazed me with a huge blow on the head and believing me past recovery they hasted away with diligence and this is all I can tell you of Angelica I now expect a Servant of mine that can tell you somewhat more he followed them at distance after he had horsed me upon a beast which they regarded not as being of little value Destiny demanded of him why he left him without giving notice of it whence he came and who he was no longer doubting but he had disguised both his Name and Quality Leander confessed there was somewhat of truth in his doubt and having laid himself down on the bed again because the hurts he had received pained him very much Destiny sat at the beds feet and Leander related to him what you may read in the next Chapter CHAP. V. Leanders History I Am a Gentleman of a Family not a little known in the Province I hope one day to have at least twelve thousand Livers per annum provided my good Father would but die who although he be above fourscore years of age makes all those dispair whose Fortune depends on his absence out of this world or have any thing to do with him because he is so healthy that I do more fear he will never die then hope to succeed him in three very handsome Farms which are all his income He would needs have me to be a Counsellor in the Parliament of Bretaigne against my inclination to this end he put me very early to my Studies I was a Schollar at la Flesche when your Company came to Act. I saw Madam Angelica and became so in Love with her that I had not the power to do any thing else but what tended to express that love I did more yet for I had the confidence to tell her that I loved her she was not offended with it I wrote to her she received my Letter and did not shew any tokens of disdain After that Madam Cave being obliged to keep her Chamber whilst she was sick at la Flesche gave me the happy opportunity of frequently conversing with her Daughter She