Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron, Vol. 2 of 2 Fmith. It is unnecefl'ary to dwell Upon the merit of a work, which has the {lamp of his name to give it currency, It was an undertaking for which, the natural cafe, and delicacy of his fiile, united to his exquifite tafle for humour, peculiarly adapted him. He has preferved the genuine fpirit of Scarron unimfaired. And taught him to relate his p eafan try with grace. In good Englifh. Mr. Savage and fome others gave a tranflati'on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.