Beginning: Consanguinity and love which are treated in this novel so
romantically and with such tragic catastrophe had already been dealt
with in happier mood by Mrs. Behn in _The Dutch Lover_. _Vide_ Note on
the Source of that play, Vol. I, p. 218.
Vol. I, p. 218, beginning of "Source" section:
Mrs. Behn founded the plot of _The Dutch Lover_ upon the stories
of Eufemie and Theodore, Don Jame and Frederic, in a pseudo-Spanish
novel entitled '_The History of Don Fenise_, a new Romance written
in Spanish by Francisco de Las Coveras, And now Englished by a
Person of Honour, London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley,' 8vo, 1651.
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