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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Contents

• title page
• Sir R. F. upon this Dramatick Romance, Paraphrased by him during his Confinement to Tankersly Park in York-shire, by Oliver, after the Battail of Worcester, in which he was taken Prisoner, serving His Majesty (whom God preserve) as Secretary of State.
  • version
• TO THE Queen of Spain.
• to the reader
• The Prologue: (Called by the Spaniard The LOA, i. e. The Praise, because therein the Spe∣ctators are commended to curry fa∣vour with them:) Spoken by the Lady Isabella Velasco, and the Lady Isabella Guzman; the latter pulling the former in with her upon the Stage.
  • A Song After the Main Prologue, Painting the Festival of Aranwhez.
• The Persons in the first Act.
• Querer por solo Querer: To Love only to Love.
  • THE FIRST ACT.
  • At the End of the first Act, the Lady Mary Cutinio, and the Lady Frances Tavara, came forth and Danced with swords (in form of a chain) The Gallery of Love.
• The Persons of the second Act, are the same with those of the first, adding,
• Querer por solo Querer: To Love only to Love.
  • THE SECOND ACT.
• The Persons of the third Act, are the same with those of the second, adding,
• Querer por solo Querer: To Love only to Love.
  • THE THIRD ACT.
• description of dance
• title page
• FESTIVALS OF Aranwhez.
  • The Site of Aranjuez.
  • The Fields of Aranjuez.
  • The Garden of the Isle.
  • part
  • The Fabrick of the Scenes.
  • The beginning of the Festival.
  • The Mascarade.
  • The Chariot of the River Tagus.
  • The Chariot of April.
  • The Flight of the Eagle.
  • The Comedy.
  • Amadis Enters.
  • The Habits.
  • The Fable proceeds.
  • The Second SCENE.
• A DESCRIPTION IN VERSE, DIALOGUE-WISE, OF THE FESTIVAL AT ARANVVHEZ In the YEAR 1623.