To the Reader. | You are to take this Translation very kind- | ly, for
the Authour | of it has ventur’d his | Reputation to oblige | you:
Ventur’d it | (I say) even in the very Attempt of Co | pying so Nice
an | Original. It is, in French, one of the | most Artificial Pieces
| perhaps of the Kind, | that is anywhere Ex- | tant: Beside the Pe-
| culiar Graces, and | Felicities of that Lan-| guage; in the matter
| of an Amour, which | cannot be adopted | into any other | Tongue
without Ex- | tream Force, and Affectation. There was | (it seems)
an Intrigue | of Love carry’d on | betwixt a French offi- | cer, and
a Nun in | Portugal. The Cava- | lier forsakes his Mis- | tress, and
Returns | for France. The La- | dy expostulates the | Business in five
Let- | ters of complaint, | which she sends af- | ter him; and those |
five Letters are here | at your Service. You | will find in them the
| Lively Image of an | Extravagant, and an | Unfortunate Passion; |
and that a woman may | be Flesh and Bloud, in a | Cloyster, as well as
in a | Palace.
‘Five love-letters from a Nun to a Cavalier,’ etc., etc., 1693. 16mo.
(2nd edition.)
‘Five love-letters from a Nun to a Cavalier,’ etc. etc., 1701. 16mo.
(3rd edition.)
* ‘New Miscellaneous | Poems | with five | Love-Letters | from | a Nun
to a Cavalier |. Done into Verse |.’ The Second Edition. London 1713.
With frontispiece. 16mo. The Letters occupy pp. 3-43; the date of the
1st edition is unknown.
‘Letters | from a | Portuguese Nun | to | an Officer | in the | French
Army.’ | Translated by | W. R. Bowles, Esqre. London, 1808. 12mo.,
with frontispiece. pp. xvi-125. This includes the so-called Second
Part of the Letters.
‘Letters from a Portuguese Nun,’ etc., etc., 1817. (2nd edition.)
‘Letters from a Portuguese Nun,’ etc., etc., 1828. (3rd edition.)
‘The Love Letters of a | Portuguese Nun | being the letters written by
Marianna | Alcaforado to Noël Bouton de Cha-milly, Count of St. Leger
(later | Marquis of Chamilly), in | the year 1668.’ | Translated by |
R. H. | New York 1890. 12mo. 148 p.
‘Five love-letters written by a Cavalier (the Chevalier Del) in answer
to the five love-letters written to him by a Nun.’ London 1694. 12mo.
* * * * *
* ‘Seven | Portuguese Letters; | being a | second part | to the | Five
Love-Letters | from a | Nun | to a | Cavalier | .’ London 1681. pp.
iii-78. 8vo.
* ‘Seven | Love-Letters | from a | Nun | to a | Cavalier,’ | etc.,
etc., 1693. Small 4to. (2nd edition.)
N.B.--The translations marked with an asterisk are not mentioned by
Senhor Cordeiro in his Bibliography.