[348] "Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada," performed (with great success) in the winter, 1669-70, act iii. sc. 1. [349] Settle's "Empress of Morocco," London, 1673, 4to. The engraving we reproduce represents the interior of a Moorish prison, with Muley Labas, son of the Emperor of Morocco, and the Princess Morena. [350] "Andromache, a tragedy, as it is acted at the Dukes Theatre," London, 1675, 4to. [351] _Spectator_, April 12, 1711. [352] "The Constant Couple, or a trip to the Jubilee," 1700, act iii., last scene. [353] "Titus and Berenice; a tragedy," 1677. [354] "The Princess of Montpensier," 1666; "The Princess of Cleve ... written by the greatest wits of France, rendred into English by a person of quality at the request of some friends," 1688: "Zayde," 1688. Nat. Lee's play is entitled, "The Princess of Cleve," London, 1689, 4to. As to the popularity of this novel in France, it will be enough to notice Madame de Sevigne's allusion to "ce chien de Barbin," who does not fulfil her orders when she wants books, because she does not write "des Princesses de Cleves." [355] "Je ne vous dirai pas exactement s'il avait soupe et s'il se coucha sans manger comme font quelques faiseurs de romans qui reglent toutes les heures du jour de leurs heros, les font se lever de bon matin, confer leur histoire jusqu'a l'heure du diner, reprendre leur histoire ou s'enfoncer dans un bois pour y aller parler tout seuls, si ce n'est quand ils out quelque chose a dire aux arbres et aux rochers" ("Roman comique," chap. ix. ed. 1825). "Je vous raconteray sincerement et avec fidelite plusieurs historiettes et galanteries arrivees entre des personnes qui ne seront ny heros ny heroines, qui ne dresseront point d'armees, ny ne renverseront point de royaumes, mais qui seront de ces bonnes gens de mediocre condition, qui vont tout doucement leur grand chemin, dont les uns seront beaux et les autres laids, les uns sages et les autres sots; et ceux-cy out bien la mine de composer le plus grand nombre" ("Roman bourgeois," ed. Janet, p. 6). [356] Rabelais by Urquhart, London, 1653, 8vo; Cervantes in 1612; and again by T. Shelton in 1620 and by J. Philips, 1687.