Emilia, rusticated to Andalusia to escape falling in love, gives her
heart to Berinthus, whom she meets at a masquerade. On her way to a
second entertainment to meet her lover, her terror of a drunken cavalier
induces her to accept the protection of the amorous Alonzo and paves the
way for her ruin. Berinthus turns out to be her brother Henriquez.
Alonzo, his friend, marries the lady as soon as her identity is
discovered, and all parties are perfectly content.

Though the scene of "The Capricious Lover: or, No Trifling with a Woman"
is likewise laid in Spain, the atmosphere of the story is far different.

Montano, doubtful of Calista's affection for him, feigns to break with
her, and she, though really loving him, returns an indifferent answer
and marries Gaspero out of pique. The distracted lover thereupon falls
upon his sword in the presence of the newly wedded couple, and the
bride, touched by the spectacle of her lover's devotion, languishes and
dies in a few months.

There is little naturalness in the extravagant passion of the second
story, but until sensationalism cloyed the public palate, realism was an
unnecessary labor. By placing the events in some romantic country like
Spain, Portugal, Italy, or even France, any narrative of excessive love
could be made to pass current. The Latin countries were vaguely imagined
by romantic novelists as a sort of remote but actual _pays du Tendre_
where the most extraordinary actions might occur if only "love, soft
love" were the motivating force.

A collection of select novels called "Love in its Variety," advertised
in 1727 as "Written in Spanish by Signior Michel Ban Dello; made English
by Mrs. Eliza Haywood," was apparently a translation from the _novelle_