Querer por solo querer To love only for love sake : a dramatick romance : represented at Aranjuez, before the King and Queen of Spain, to celebrate the birthday of that King, by the Meninas, which are a sett of ladies, in the nature of ladies of honour in that court, children in years, but higher in degree (being many of them daughters and heyres to grandees of Spain) than the ordinary ladies of honour, attending likewise that queen / written in Spanish by Don Antonio de Mendoza 1623 ; paraphrased in English, anno 1654 ; together with the Festivals of Aranwhez.

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Querer por solo querer To love only for love sake : a dramatick romance : represented at Aranjuez, before the King and Queen of Spain, to celebrate the birthday of that King, by the Meninas, which are a sett of ladies, in the nature of ladies of honour in that court, children in years, but higher in degree (being many of them daughters and heyres to grandees of Spain) than the ordinary ladies of honour, attending likewise that queen / written in Spanish by Don Antonio de Mendoza 1623 ; paraphrased in English, anno 1654 ; together with the Festivals of Aranwhez.
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Hurtado de Mendoza, Antonio, 1586-1644.
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London :: Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...,
1671.
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"Querer por solo querer To love only for love sake : a dramatick romance : represented at Aranjuez, before the King and Queen of Spain, to celebrate the birthday of that King, by the Meninas, which are a sett of ladies, in the nature of ladies of honour in that court, children in years, but higher in degree (being many of them daughters and heyres to grandees of Spain) than the ordinary ladies of honour, attending likewise that queen / written in Spanish by Don Antonio de Mendoza 1623 ; paraphrased in English, anno 1654 ; together with the Festivals of Aranwhez." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45225.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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The Site of Aranjuez.

ARANVVHEZ is the Recreation of the Kings and Queens of Spain, One and Twenty Miles from Madrid, the Court thereof; a Sear, which makes it credulity even to believe ones Eyes, the more seen, the more wondered at, and which in its natural simplicity, would rather have scorn'd, than admitted of Art, had not the Greatness of the Owners made it beholding to them for what was impossible, adorning it not only with a sumptuous Building (which, not exceeding the proportion of a Villa, or Countrey-House, de¦serves

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the Name of a Pallace-Royal) but also with transcen∣dent Culture, in which there is a constant variety; what in the Luxuriancy of its Gardens, what in the Gallantry of its Mea∣dows, which, for Flowers, Birds, and Plants, leave nothing to be admired in the strangeness of the most remote Provinces; (that being there common, which is singular in every of them;) and what in the excellency of its Groves, which, peopl'd with all manner of Game, and Beauty, excuse no Royal Enter∣tainment.

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