''Don Zara del Fogo: a mock-romance'' is a 1656 book in prose and verse by the English author Samuel Holland.
Book
''Don Zara del Fogo'' was written by Samuel Holland and printed by "T.W." for Thomas Vere in London in 1656. It was subtitled "a mock-romance / written originally in the Brittish tongue, and made English by a person of much honor, Basilius Musophilus ; with a marginall comment, expounding the hard things of the history". It is dedicated "to the most Nobly accomplished, ROBERT, THOMAS, and JOHN SPENCER, Esquires".
It was reprinted in 1656 under the title ''Wit and fancy in a maze''. The book was then published in 1660 under the title of ''Romancio-Mastrix''.
Another edition was published in 1719; it was titled ''The Spaniard: Or, Don Zara del Fogo: Translated From the Original Spanish by Basilius Musophilus''.
The text, a
pastiche of Spanish
romances such as ''
Don Quixote
is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of West ...
'', is in three "books", each of six chapters, containing a combination of prose and verse. Chapter 3 of the third book consists of "Venus and Adonis: A Masque", with its own epilogue.
Chapter 1 begins with this sentence:
In literature
''Don Zara'' is an early source for the use of the term "
Orc
An Orc (or Ork) is a fictional humanoid monster like a goblin. Orcs were brought into modern usage by the fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially '' The Lord of the Rings''. In Tolkien's works, Orcs are a brutish, aggressive, ugl ...
" (spelt "Orke") for an ogre-like monster in English.
["Orc" ]Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the first and foundational historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a co ...
: From under the entry "orc": 1656 S. HOLLAND ''Don Zara'' (I. i. 6) "Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus." eeming "ogre" usage/ref>
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Sources
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* {{cite book , last=Holland , first=Samuel , title=The Spaniard: or, Don Zara del Fogo: Translated From the Original Spanish by Basilius Musophilus. With Notes , publisher=Gale ECCO, Print editions , year=2018 , orig-year=1719 (London : printed for W. Chetwood; and R. Francklin; and sold by J. Roberts) , isbn=978-1-379-89281-6 , oclc=1035458182 – "these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand"
External links
Oxford Text Archive
at the Bodleian Library
1656 books