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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Title: 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.
Author: Hurtado de Mendoza, Antonio, 1586-1644.
Publication: London :: Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...,; 1671.
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The Fields of Aranjuez.

THe least of its Beauty is under the Charge of two the most celebrated Rivers of Castile; Xarama, which dilated through the Fields hereof, begins their Fer∣tility, and with a gentle Plain, Crown'd with Corn and Fruits, draws the first respect to the Majesty of its Master, defended by that respect, better than by the watching of so numerous Guards; (for, in so vast Limits, in vain would be the Care of many, if they were not kept by the veneration of All;) the Courage of the Bulls thereof giving the second estimation to the Borders of this River, which (civil to Tagus) retires it self, leaving to him the upper and nearer place, and afterwards Duty more than Custom carries it to joyn with him, making him greater, not more beautiful.