Celestina / Celestine Book

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INTRO- Mabbe's venture—a most comely folio—foundered in the DUCTION storm of the Civil War ; and in 1634 the remainder copies were bound up with a third edition of The Rogue. He must have thought it worthy of a happier fate; and posterity has ruled with him. J. F.-K. chapter{Section 4/ fi / THE SPANISH BAWD REPRESENTED IN CELESTINA OR, THE TRAGICKE-COMEDY OF CALISTO AND MELIBEA WHEREIN IS CONTAINED, BESIDES THE PLEASANTNESSE AND SWEETENESSE OF THE STILE, MANY PHILOSOPHICAL.!. SENTENCES, AND PROFITABLE INSTRUC- TIONS NECESSARY FOR THE YOUNGER SORT : SHEWING . . THE DECEITS AND SUBTILTIES HOUSED IN THE BOSOMES OF FALSE SERVANTS. AND CUNNY-CATCHING BAWDS chapter{Section 5 To my worthy and much esteemed friend SIR THOMAS RICHARDSON KNIGHT. IR, I now send you your long since promised Celestina, put into English cloathes ; I shall intreate you to give her a friendly welcome, because she is a stranger, and come purposely out of Spaine into these parts, to see you, and kisse your hands. I would not accompany her with my letters of recommendation, whereby she might finde the better reception. For, I must ingeniously confesse, that this your Celestina is not sine scelere; yet must I tell you withall, that she cannot be harboured with you, sine utilitate. Her life is foule, but her Precepts faire ; her example naught, but her Doctrine good ; her Coate ragged, but her mind inriched with many a golden Sentence: And therefore take her not as she seemes, but as she is; and the rather, because blacke sheepe have as good Carcasses as white. You shall finde this booke to . EPISTLE DEDICATORY be like a Court-Iack, which though it be blacke, yet holds as good liquor as your fairest Flagon of silver or like the Rod that Brutus offred to Apollo, which ...