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(1732) Duke Bellfond lusts after his ward Amira, and is about to bed her will-she nill-she when he realizes he has complicated feelings about his page boy Florio. Florio, it turns out, is not Florio but Amanda, an admirer of Bellfond (what's to admire is not obvious) who disguised herself in order to get close to him. Like most amatory fiction it feels fundamentally strange even when it isn't ick, difficult to read except as historical artefact.

A Shipwreck'd Mariner who was cast on Shore upon the fertile Isle of Cyprus, Friendless and Alone, lost himself in the agreeable Gardens of Duke Bellfond, a Ruling Statesman in that Province; where giving a melancholly Relation of his Fate, he was almost instantly entertain'd by the Master Gardiner.

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