Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances; Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, preface to Parthenissa (1655) Sir George Mackenzie, "Apologie for romances," prefixed to Aretina, the serious romance (1660) Nathaniel Ingelo, preface to Bentivolio and Urania (1660) Robert Boyle, preface to Theodora and Didymus (1687), a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work...