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Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, preface to Parthenissa (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, "Apologie for romances," prefixed to Aretina, the serious romance (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) Robert Boyle, preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687)

Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery, 1621-1679; Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683; Mackenzie, George, 1636-1691; Davies, Charles Maurice, 1828-1910 [Editor]· 4 chapters· 13,140 words

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Preface to _Parthenissa_ (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, “Apologie for Romances,” prefixed to _Aretina, the Serious Romance_ (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, Preface to _Bentivolio and Urania_ (1660) Robert Boyle, Preface to _Theodora and Didymus_ (1687)

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3. Part 3

_It were a thing to be wondred at, that by many nothing is esteem’d witty, except =Poetry= and =Romances=, but that want of Judgement doth notoriously discover it self in those...

2. Part 2

_It hath been rather the fate, then merit of Romances in all ages, to be asperst with these vices, whereof they were not only innocent, but to whose ante-doting vertues they mig...

1. Part 1

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Preface to _Parthenissa_ (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, “Apologie for Romances,” prefixed to _Aretina, the Serious Romance_ (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, Pr...

4. Part 4

I freely confess, Sir, that, if the following Piece had been written by One, that I were fond of Censuring, I could my self find enough in it to Criticize upon; and should objec...