The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France.
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- The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France.
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- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
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- London :: Printed for the author, and sold by Sam. Crouch ...,
- 1678.
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"The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions together with a novel as it really happened at Roan in France." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27299.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
YOu have here in these persons the Character of a Grand Debauchee, or daring Villain, abolishing and enervating, as much as in them lay, all Laws and Rules, without which it is impossible to suppose a Society: who ha∣ving obliterated the natural impressions of Iustice and Pie∣ty,
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have devised and accom∣plished all manner of Baseness and Villany, having performed such horrid actions as would have amazed themselves as well as others, had they not by a long Series of wickedness been hardned in their detestable undertakings.
Here you may be satisfied by evident Demonstration, in∣stanced in the Lives and Deaths of these men, of the diffe∣rence of Vertue and Vice; that they are not empty Names, or significant Nothings, see∣ing Heaven has interposed as a party, not suffering any of them to go out of this World
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without the signal marks of its ••resentment.
And if the lives of good and vertuous men have been exceeding advantageous to the purposes of Religion and Vir∣tue, why may not likewise the Examples of those who are Vi∣tious and Abominable be in their kinde as useful? seeing by the one we learn what we should do, by the other, what we should not.
In short, I know the Book needs not long Apologies, nor Commendatory-prefaces, having been so often reprinted and ap∣proved of in France, and else∣where; wherefore, that I may
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no longer detain you with te••∣dious Exordiums, I shall refer you to the Book it self, which will never need to beg Commen∣dations.