Dedicated to the Right Honourable PHILIP Earl of CHESTERFIELD. Correctly printed in a neat Pocket Volume The Second Edition of LAccurately L Accurately Tranflated from the French. Wherein the Principles of Morality, or Social Duties, viz. Piety, Wifdom, Prudence, Fortitude, Juftice, Tempérance, Love, Friendship, Humanity, &c. &c. are defcribed in all their Branches; the Obligations of them fhewn to confift in our Nature, and the Enlargement of them ftrongly enforc'd. Here Parents are taught, that, giving Birth to a Child, fearcely entitles them to that honourable Name, without a ftrict Difcharge of Parental Duties; the Friend will find, there are a thousand other Decorums, befides the doing of a Favour, to entitle him to the tender Name of Friend; and the Good-natur'd Man will find, he ought to extend that Quality beyond the Bounds of his own Neighbourhood or Party The Whole wrote in a manner entirely New and Entertaining, and enliven'd with real Characters, drawn from life, and fited to inftill the Principles of all Social Virtues into tender Minds. Printed for W. Johnfton at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard. THE LIVE S OF THE POET S A PETER MOTTEAUX, French gentleman, born and educated at Rohan, in Normandy. He came over into England, was a confiderable trader, and refided here many years. He is faid to have inconfiderable share of wit, and humour; and, befides a tranflation of Don Quixote, feveral Songs, Prologues and Epilogues, together with a Poem on Tea, dedicated to the Spectator, (fee Vol. VII. VOL, IV. No. 16. B Numb. Numb. 552) he is author of the following dramatic pieces. 1. Love's a Jeft, a Comedy; acted at the new Theatre, in little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1696. In the two scenes, where love is made a jest, some paffages are taken from Italian writers. 2. The Loves of Mars and Venus; a Mafque fet to Mufic, performed at the Theatre in Lincoln'sInn-Fields, 1696; dedicated to colonel Codrington. The ftory from Ovid. 3. The Novelty, or every Act a Play; confifting of Paftoral, Comedy, Mafque, Tragedy, and Farce, after the Italian manner; acted at the Theatre in little Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1697. The model of this play is formed upon Sir William Davenant's Play-Houfe to be let: But neither of them met with much fuccefs. 4. Europe's Revels for the Peace, and his Majefty's Happy Return, a Mufical Interlude, performed at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1697. 5. Beauty in Diftrefs, a Tragedy; acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, 1698. There is fome poetry in this play; and in the multiplicity of its incidents, he has followed the example of the British Poets. Before this piece, there is prefixed a difcourfe on the lawfulnefs or unlawfulness of plays; written originally in French, by the learned father Caffaro, divinity professor at Paris; fent by a friend to Mr. Motteaux. 6. The Island Princess, or the Generous Portugueze; made into an Opera, and performed at the Theatre-Royal 1701. The mufic by Mr. Daniel Purcell, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Leveridge. The greatest part of the play is taken from Fletcher's Island Princess. Scene the Spice Island. 7. The Four Seasons, or Love in every Age; a mufical Interlude, fet to Mufic by Mr. Jeremiah Clark; printed with the musical Entertainments of the above Opera. 8. Britain's 1 8. Britain's Happiness, a mufical Interlude; performed at both the Theatres, being part of the entertainment, fubfcribed for by the nobility. Scene a profpect of Dover caftle and the fea. This Interlude was long before defigned, only as an introduction to an Opera; which if ever finished was to have been called the Loves of Europe, every act fhewing the manner of the different nations in their addreffes to the fair-fex; of which he has informed us in his prefatory epistle. 9. Thomyris Queen of Scythia, an Opera; tranf lated from the Italian; performed at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. 10. The Temple of Love, a Paftoral Opera, from the Italian; performed at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-market, by her majesty's fervants, 1706. Scene Arcadia. Time of action, the fame with that of the representation. 11. Love Dragoon'd, a Farce. This gentleman, who feems to have led a very comfortable life, his circumftances being eafy, was unfortunate in his death; for he loft his life in a diforderly houfe, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, not without fufpicion of having been murthered; which accident happened to him, on his birth day in the 58th year of his age, 1718. His body was interred in his own parish church, being that of St. Mary Ax, in the city of London. |