![]() Youth: And though I shall omit, for brevity's sake, a thousand little accidents In this history, the hero himself, who gave us the whole transactions of his I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here set down Īnd what I cou'd not be witness of, I receiv'd from the mouth of the chief actor ![]() Render it diverting, without the addition of invention. Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feign'd hero, whose life andįortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure nor in relating the truth,ĭesign to adorn it with any accidents, but such as arrived in earnest to him:Īnd it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits,Īnd natural intrigues there being enough of reality to support it, and to I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this royal ![]() Oroonoko: or The History of the Royal Slave ![]()
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