THE LOVER’S WATCH POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS A VOYAGE TO THE ISLE OF LOVE LYCIDUS; OR, THE LOVER IN FASHION MISCELLANEOUS POEMS _La Môntre: or, The Lover’s Watch_, ‘Licensed 2 Aug. 1686. R.L.S.’ is taken by Mrs. Behn from _La Môntre_ of Balthazar de Bonnecorse. After having received an excellent education at Marseilles, where he was born, de Bonnecorse was appointed consul at Cairo, and later transferred to Sidon in the Levant. Whilst at Cairo he composed _La Môntre_, a mixture of prose and verse, which he sent to the great arbiter of Parisian taste, Georges de Scudéri, under whose care it was printed in 1666 at Paris. It was followed in 1671 by the second part, _la Boëte et le Miroir_, d…
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