THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GUZMAN D’ALFARACHE, OR THE SPANISH ROGUE. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH EDITION OF MONS. LE SAGE. BY JOHN HENRY BRADY. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND CONSIDERABLY IMPROVED. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1823. London: Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-street. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. The first large impression of this work, which was published in 1821, being exhausted, and another edition called for, I have taken great pains to render it still more acceptable to the reader. For the many flattering notices bestowed on it by the Reviewers, I have to express my sincere acknowledgments; and they will not fail to observe that their remarks have had their due weight with me in the alterations I have made. The translation has been carefully revised, and the parts complained of as too significant have been softened down; and I trust, from the superior type and paper in which _Guzman_ is now presented to the public, that the _Spanish Rogue_ will be considered as dressed in a style becoming one whose exploits have already obtained for him a patronage for which he ought, rogue though he is, to feel grateful. THE TRANSLATOR. _London, 1823._ TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. “There is hardly any Language in Europe that knows not Guzman; and the Spanish Rogue is as much talked of, as if there was no other in the world,” is the commencement of the Preface to a “_Translation of Guzman d’Alfarache_,” into English, by “several hands,” published in 1708: and assuredly such _was_ the popularity of Guzman formerly: although _now_ even his name is unknown, except to the literati; and there is no English translation of him extant, the above one excepted, with another, still more ancient: both of which are only to be found in the select libraries of a few of the learned and curious: particularly the latter work; which is the production of Don Diego Puede-Sur; and was published in 1634, by “_Robert Allot, at the Signe of the Blacke Bear, in Paul’s Church Yard_,” to which, among others, is prefixed the subjoined compliment by Ben Jonson. “ON THE AUTHOR, WORKE, AND TRANSLATOR.”