6.  The Lady’s Looking-Glass, to dress themselves by.  Damon is supposed to send Iris a looking-glass, which represents to her all her charms, viz. her shape, complexion, hair, &c.  This likewise, which is not properly a novel, is taken from the French.

7.  The Lucky Mistake, a new novel.

8.  The Court of the King of Bantam.

9.  The Adventures of the Black Lady.  The reader will distinguish the originals from translations, by consulting the 2d and 3d tomes of Recueil des pieces gallantet, en prose et en verse.  Paris 1684.

We have observed, that in the English translation of Ovid’s Epistles, the paraphrase of Oenone’s Epistle to Paris is her’s.  In the preface to that work Mr. Dryden pays her this handsome compliment.

“I was desired to say, that the author, who is of the fair sex, understood not Latin; but if she does not, I’m afraid she has given us occasion to be ashamed who do.”

Part of this epistle transcribed will afford a specimen of her verification.

  Say lovely youth, why wouldst thou, thus betray,
  My easy faith, and lead my heart away. 
  I might some humble shepherd’s choice have been,
  Had I not heard that tongue, those eyes not seen;
  And in some homely cot, in low repose,
  Liv’d undisturb’d, with broken vows and oaths;
  All day by shaded springs my flocks have kept,
  And in some honest arms, at night have slept. 
  Then, un-upbraided with my wrongs thou’dit been,
  Safe in the joys of the fair Grecian queen. 
  What stars do rule the great? no sooner you
  Became a prince, but you were perjured too. 
  Are crowns and falsehoods then consistent things? 
  And must they all be faithless who are Kings? 
  The gods be prais’d that I was humble born,
  Ev’n tho’ it renders me my Paris’ scorn. 
  And I had rather this way wretched prove,
  Than be a queen, dishonest in my love.

[Footnote 1:  Memoirs prefixed to her Novels, by a lady.]

[Footnote 2:  Memoires ubi supra.]

[Footnote 3:  Memoirs ubi supra.]

[Footnote 4:  A noted boxer.]

[Footnote 5:  A Turk, famous for his performances on a wire, after the manner of rope-dancers.]

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Sir George etherege,

A Celebrated wit in the reign of Charles and James ii.  He is said to have been descended of an ancient family of Oxfordshire, and born about the year 1636; it is thought he had some part of his education at the university of Cambridge, but in his younger years he travelled into France, and consequently made no long stay at the university.  Upon his return, he, for some time, studied the Municipal Law at one of the Inns of Court, in which, it seems, he made but little progress, and like other men of sprightly genius, abandoned it for pleasure, and the gayer accomplishments.