Par Grace & Priuilege du Roy, donné à Paris le 28. jour d’Octobre 1668. Signé par le Roy en son Conseïl, MARGERET. Il est permis à CLAVDE BARBIN, Marchand Libraire, de faire imprimer vn Liure intitulé, _Lettres Portugaises_, pendant le temps & espace de _cinq années_; Et deffenses sont faites à tous autres de l’Imprimer, sur peine de quinze cent liures d’amande, de tous dépens, dommages & interests, comme il est plus amplement porté par lesdites Lettres de Priuilege. _Acheué d’imprimer pour la premiere fois le 4. Ianuier, 1669._ Les Exemplaires ont esté fournis. _Registré sur le Liure de la Communauté de Marchands Libraires & Imprimeurs de cette Ville, suiuant & conformement à Arrest de la Cour de Parlement du 8. Avril, 1653, aux charges & conditions portées par le present Priuilege. Fait à Paris le 17 Nouembre 1668._ SOVBRON, Syndic. BIBLIOGRAPHY The following forms the English Bibliography of the Letters:-- ‘Five | love-letters | from a | Nun | to a | Cavalier | .’ Done out of French into English. (By) Ro L’Estrange. London 1678. pp. 111-117, 12mo. Here is the Preface:-- 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.)