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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Life of Betty Ireland, by Anonymous
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+Title: The True Life of Betty Ireland
+       With Her Birth, Education, and Adventures. Together with Some Account of Her Elder Sister Blanch of Britain. Containing Sundry Very Curious Particulars
+
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+Author: Anonymous
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+Release Date: November 9, 2007  [eBook #23390]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE LIFE OF BETTY IRELAND***
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+
+E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Suzan Flanagan, and the Project
+Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
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+Transcriber's note:
+
+   The original spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been
+   retained. However, long s's have been transcribed as modern s's,
+   and minor punctuation corrections have been made.
+
+   The oe ligature is represented as [oe].
+
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+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND._
+
+[Price a _British_ Sixpence.]
+
+
+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND._
+
+WITH
+
+Her BIRTH, EDUCATION, and
+ADVENTURES.
+
+Together with
+
+Some Account of her elder Sister _BLANCH_
+of _BRITAIN_.
+
+Containing,
+
+Sundry very curious Particulars.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_LONDON_, Printed:
+
+_DUBLIN_, Reprinted for PETER WILSON, in _Dame-street_.
+MDCCLIII.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND_.
+
+
+It is agreed on all Hands, that _Betty Ireland_ was a younger
+Daughter by a _second Venter_; let, at first, to run wild in the
+Woods, cloathed with Skins and fed with Acorns; till a _famous
+Hunter_ took her in his Toils, and, liking her _Countenance_, gave
+her to a Son of his, a _Lad_, to bring up. The _Girl_ was born to
+a good Estate, but ill tenanted, and run to waste. Her _Farms_
+neither _meared_ or bounded, her Rents never paid, as she had no
+_certain_ Tenants, and had little more to claim than a Pepper-corn
+Acknowledgment. She had no Relation to manage her _Demesnes_, and
+could hardly be said to be possessed of any thing.
+
+In this Condition the young _Sportsman_ found her, was fond of her
+at first, and resolved to marry her; and _happy_ had it been both
+for _him_ and _her_, if he had kept his Resolution, and performed
+the _Contract_. But he hankered after his elder Brother's _Estate_,
+and, on his Death, suddenly got the Tenants to _attorn_ to _him_,
+and basely dispossessed his _Nephew_. But instead of an _Estate_,
+he got nothing but a _Law-suit_, lived in _Broils_, and dyed a
+_Beggar_. Whereas had he quitted all Pretensions at home, married
+_Betty_ and minded her Concerns, he had soon been in a Condition
+not to envy his Brother; and, perhaps, had left a _second Family_
+little inferior in _Greatness_ to the first.
+
+This was the only Chance ever _Betty_ had to make a _separate_
+Fortune, set up for herself, and be _independent_ of her _Sister_.
+She was ever after _beholden_ to _her_ for maintaining her
+_Rights_, settling her _Affairs_, and bringing her _Tenants_ to
+Reason.
+
+Neither _Betty_ or her Sister were yet of Age, but the Younger far
+from it, and continued under such _Guardians_, as the _Elder_
+recommended, and had chosen for herself. It was natural to think
+they should chiefly be employed in ordering the Affairs of
+_Blanch_, and be less attentive to benefit the other. Accordingly,
+from time to time, they sent _Proxies_, to let Leases, keep her
+_Courts_, and _force_ Possession, where the Tenants held over.
+Little, however, was done for _Betty_, though they put her _Sister_
+to great Charges; nor did she thrive in the World to any Purpose,
+'till she came under the Care of a good _orderly Gentlewoman_, who
+was also _Guardian_ to _Blanch_, a notable _Manager_, and very
+affectionate to her _Wards_, understood their Business to a hair,
+and was never to be imposed on or _over-reached_. Every thing she
+put her hand to prospered, and every thing against her miscarried.
+
+When she first looked into _Betty_'s Affairs, she found them in a
+manner desperate; her small Revenues had been embezzled by
+_Agents_, Farms set to _insolvent_ Tenants, _double_ Leases made
+out, huge _Fines_ taken in Hand and sunk in their own Pockets. She
+was preyed upon by Vagabonds and _Outlaws_; and, to compleat her
+Misfortunes, a _Foreign Count_ fell in love with her, an odious
+Monster and _braggadocio_ Huffer. He swore bitterly no one else
+should have her, and to support his Claim, brought in his Pocket, a
+_pretended Licence_ from the _Spiritual Court_, and a Pack of
+_outlandish Goths_ along with him, to take Possession of her
+Freehold, and break down her Gates. But her _Sister_ generously
+came in to her Assistance, repelled Force by Force, and rescued her
+from a Tyrant Ravisher, built Houses for herself, and Fences for
+the Tenants, and left some of her own People with her to instruct
+them in Trades and Husbandry.
+
+She was then, it might be thought, in a Way of making herself
+respected, both by her own and her _Sister_'s Tenants, and not
+stand in need of any more Supplies from them; and if the _good
+Woman_, her guardian, had lived to bring Matters to any Kind of
+Establishment, Things had been better. But she unfortunately died,
+more, however, to her _Sister_'s Disadvantage than _hers_; for the
+_Guardian_ had chalked out a Track of Proceeding for _Betty_, which
+she could hardly miss to follow. The _Elder_, however, was
+inconsolable for the Loss of her _Guardian_, and resolved, for the
+future, to manage her Concerns by the Assistance of a _Steward_, a
+Sort of a Cousin to her _Guardian_ deceased, but no way allied to
+her, in Worth or Understanding. He minded nothing but Hunting and
+_Puppet-shews_, Feasts and Revels; and though the uncomeliest of an
+_ill-favoured Race_, spent his Lady's Money in adorning his own
+Person, instead of _fencing_ her Grounds. He was laughed at by one
+half of the Neighbours, and despised and gulled by the other. In a
+Word, he was every Way unfit for the Charge.
+
+His Son succeeded to the Place; he was a grave-looking, orderly
+young Man, main religious, and skilled in the _Customs of the
+Manor_. Both the Sisters had great Hopes their Affairs would thrive
+under his Management. _Betty_'s, indeed, went on well for a while;
+but, in the End, both of them had Cause to complain, and curse the
+Day they had bethought them of employing a _Steward_ in their
+Concerns. He was not so great a Fool as his Father; yet nothing he
+put his Hand to succeeded. He was _bubbled_ by every _Neighbour_ he
+dealt with, and choused by every _Tenant_ he trusted. His Word
+could never be relied on, as he had always some quibble to evade
+it. His Wife made him hated by the Tenants; and for a finishing
+Stroke to his undoing, and compleat the Ruin of his _Wards_, he
+pretended the _Steward_ had a Right to hold Courts without
+_Juries_, and by his own Authority levy Money for _Repairs_. The
+Tenants would not endure this Invasion on their Rights, but stoutly
+opposed it; and, after a hard Struggle, got the better, turned him
+out of the _Stewardship_, and some of them finding him one Day at a
+_why-not_, tied him to a Rope, and hanged him in a Frolick.
+
+The Office of a _Steward_ was now abolished for a Time, and the
+elder _Sister_ resolved to take her Affairs entirely into her _own
+Hands_, and have neither _Steward_ or _Guardian_ for the future.
+The Condition, indeed, of _both_ was deplorable. There had been
+nothing during the _late Quarrel_, but Riot and Plunder, Rents
+unpaid, and Soldiers quartered at Discretion; so that, in order to
+retrieve their Affairs, it seemed necessary to put things on a _new
+Footing_, and trust none but themselves to manage them. But
+whatever they intended mattered but little.
+
+Among the Soldiers quartered on them was a bustling Knave, who from
+a Corporal had come to be a Captain. He was bold as a Lion, and
+_crafty_ as a Fox. He had cajoled his Soldiers to stand by him; and
+pretending _Compassion_ for the Sisters, offered, or rather forced
+himself, to be their _Guardian_. They only complied because they
+could not help it; and he took more _rule_ over them, than ever
+_Steward_ or _Guardian_ had done before him.
+
+He seemed, indeed, to mend Matters in the Beginning, but, in
+reality, did _unrepairable_ Damage to _Blanch_, though considerable
+Services to _Betty_. The Neighbours all around thought they were
+thriving apace, and began to envy their Greatness. The Reason of
+which was, that he always took care to have the _Girls_ well
+dressed, especially when they went a _visiting_, and sent Word
+before-hand (for he was d----d proud) that all the World should
+_Cap_ to them as they passed along. He stinted them in every thing
+else, but _spent_ all he could _rap_ and _run_ to make them _fine_.
+_Betty_ was _bashful_, and kept pretty much at home; but when
+_Blanch_ went _abroad_, she made a _flaming_ Appearance, _held_ up
+her Head among the _Highest_, and _insulted_ the _Proudest_ with
+her _Braveries_.
+
+But all the while Things were but _uncomfortable_ at home, though
+she made such a _tearing Figure_ when abroad. Nothing to be had for
+Farms, by reason the Soldiers put _in_ and _out_ as they pleased.
+No _Leets_ or _Manor Courts_ were minded. No _taxing_ for _Repairs_
+and _Bounds_, but the Soldiers _taxed_ for _Contingencies_ as much
+Money as they could hear any one had. So that the _Tenants_ found
+themselves in a worse _Pickle_ than ever they had been under the
+Management of a _Steward_. They longed for Courts and _Inquests_,
+and to have every thing set on the old Bottom again.
+
+They heard of a _poor Boy_, a Son of the late _Steward_'s, who had
+run away from the _Lands_ the Time his Father was hanged, and was
+now grown up to Years of Discretion. As he had _bit_ a good while
+on the Bridle, they thought he might be tamed, more careful than
+his _Father_, and do them more Justice and Kindness. They brought
+him home in a _Hurry_; and, as it's natural to run from one Extreme
+to another, were sure they were all _made_ when they got him into
+the _Stewardship_.
+
+It must be owned, he was a pleasant, good-humoured Fellow as ever
+broke Bread, civilly behaved, and by no means wanted Capacity for
+the Business. But he was _idle_ to a Degree, followed W----ng and
+Horse-racing; and provided he could borrow Money enough from the
+_Tenants_, or get _Presents_ from the _Neighbours_, to treat his
+Wenches and buy them _Top-knots_, never heeded how _Accounts_ were
+settled, how he held the _Courts_, or how he paid the Servants.
+Farm-houses went to decay, and Strangers forestalled the Markets.
+Few People, however, could find in their Heart to hate him. They
+had a Love for him, though he was daily undoing them: For it was
+always _their Humour_ to like a _boon Companion_; and instead of
+crossing his Prodigality, they followed his Example, wh----ed it
+away from the highest to the lowest, revelled and caroused for
+_dear Blood_, and were never better pleased than when the last
+Penny was a going. It became a _Fashion_ to be Bankrupt; to be
+Rich, was to lose all Credit; and to be Just, was the Mark of a
+Scoundrel.
+
+But though the _elder Sister_ was well-nigh undone by him, he did a
+good Turn by _Betty_, and sent one of his _Cousins_ to take care of
+her Concerns, who had a good Farm of his own under her, and
+was well-beloved over the whole Estate. He kept _Leet_ and
+_Court-Baron_, presented Vagabonds at the Sessions, and gave
+Rewards for apprehending _Out-laws_. He set the Tenants to Work,
+_lived constantly among them_, and looked himself into every thing.
+_Betty_ began to thrive, and was less expensive to her _Sister_,
+who had wasted huge Sums to keep her Head above Water. She stuck to
+Business, and prospered mainly, 'till the _Steward_'s Brother got
+himself into the Place, who played H----ll with every thing, and
+brought the two Sisters to the Brink of Ruin.
+
+He was rash, senseless, obstinate, and ill-minded; none of the
+Neighbours would _deal_ with him, or the _Tenants_ trust him, as
+there was no believing one Word he said, or promise that he made;
+for he had taken an Oath when he was young never to speak Truth. He
+began his Vagaries by putting the _Curate_ in the _Stocks_, for
+refusing to teach a new _Catechism_ of his _own Invention_. He
+entered into a Plot to secure the _Elder Sister_ in the House of
+Correction, and make her do Penance in the Church, under Pretence
+of Carnal Conversation. He agreed to sell _Betty_ to a Cousin of
+his, a great Lord in the Neighbourhood, who longed to have her for
+a Waiting-woman to his Wife. So the _Tenants_ made short Work with
+him, rose one and all, and sent him a-packing to his Cousin, where
+he was fain to be a Serving-man, since he could not send _Betty_ to
+be a Serving-maid.
+
+Both the _Sisters_ took an Oath never more to have a _Steward_
+again, and to abolish the very Name from among them, with a reserve
+to his Daughters, who had married abroad, and were good sort of
+Women, in their Way.
+
+Here it was that _both the Sisters_ had their Affairs put on a sure
+and lasting Footing. The Rights of the _Tenants_ were narrowly
+examined, and all pretended Powers of the Steward abolished by a
+Rule on the _Court Manor_ Books. There was, indeed, some Difficulty
+in bringing it about, and a power of Money laid out on the
+Occasion. But it was well bestowed had it been twice as much.
+
+There was a _Stripling_ among the neighbouring _Fens_, who had
+married a Daughter of the _Steward_'s, and had got the best Estate
+there by the Diligence of his _Ancestors_, who were the principal
+_Engineers_ in _draining_ and _banking_ the Country. They had often
+borrowed Money from _Blanch_ to carry on the Work, to _stem_ the
+Water when the _Fen-men_ were in despair, and prevailed on her to
+send a strong _Posse_ of her Tenants to keep off some malicious
+Neighbours, who would ever and anon be _boring_ Holes in the
+_Dikes_, and endangered the Overflowing of all the Land they had
+gained. If ever these _wretched People_ shewed any thing that
+looked like _Gratitude_, it was to the Family of their _Engineers_;
+and this young Man improved it to his own Advantage, and that of
+_Blanch_, whom he acknowledged the Preserver of the _Fen-men_, who
+deserved Preservation on no other Account than to make them
+_Pack-horses_ and _Carriers_. They were, indeed, a middle Species
+between Men and Brutes, and chiefly compounded of the latter. But
+this young _Adventurer_ had got the Ascendant over them, and, as we
+ordinarily say of vicious Horses, had made the D----l come out of
+them. He _ringed_ them by the Nose, and _bled_ them with the
+_Spur_, and so throughly _broke_ them (for he was a special
+Horseman) that they never kicked or plunged when he was _in the
+Saddle_; but, as the Nature of Beasts is, became the fonder of him
+the rougher he handled them.
+
+When he understood that _Blanch_ and her _Sister_ were so hampered
+and _Tyrannically_ treated by the _Steward_, he came to their
+Assistance, supplied them with Money, which he raised from the
+_Fen-men_, and fairly set them free from his Oppression and Rapine,
+reversed his _Grants_, cancelled his sham Leases, restored
+Possessions, _Leets_ and _Manor-Courts_, made up _Fences_ for the
+Tenants, and so strongly secured their _Copyholds_, that there is
+no likelihood they will ever be _ousted_ or much _disturbed_ again.
+And, to crown all the Services he had done the two Sisters,
+he _recommended_ them, before he parted, to the Care of a
+_neighbouring Lord_, a Cousin of his own, and a _right honest Man_,
+who proved a Father to _them_ and their People, defended their
+_Rights_, and secured their _Properties_.
+
+And yet _Blanch_ could never rightly like the _Fen-man_, as she
+called him, though he had done so much for her. She could not
+comport herself with his Manners and his Humour, hated the Servants
+he brought with him, complained they were too costly to her, though
+she kept them sparingly, and even quarrelled (so exceptious are
+Women) to the Cut of their Cloaths, and the Colour of their
+_Liveries_.
+
+But _Betty Ireland_ had more Gratitude than her _Sister_, adored
+him while he stayed with her, and to this Day _remembers_ him as
+her _great Deliverer_, the Protector of her Life, and the Founder
+of her Fortune.
+
+She, indeed, had double Obligations, as her Condition was more
+helpless than her _Sister_'s, and she had more severely felt the
+_Tyranny_ of the _Steward_, who, because she could not so readily
+complain of him, had first _stripped_ her of all she had, and then
+sold her to Bondage. But both _Sisters_ ought surely to reflect,
+that all the Happiness, and all the Security they have since
+enjoyed, has been owing to the _Friendships_ he procured them, when
+he put them under the Protection of _his Cousins_; and that he has
+effectually banished the _Stewards_ thereby, who would doubtless
+otherwise be meddling with their Affairs, and use them worse than
+ever they did before, as coming _in without Leave_, they would act
+without Controul.
+
+But maugre all these Considerations, _Blanch_ was glad when he left
+her, and ready to leap out of her Skin for joy. She thought of
+nothing but Diversions, spent her _Time_ and _Money_ in _visiting_
+and _dressing_, ransacked the Globe to set off her Person, and, it
+must be owned, she never looked handsomer in her Life. Wherever she
+went, she was adored as an Angel, surrounded by admiring Throngs,
+and Thousands hanging on her _Look_.
+
+But all this was empty Pageantry and too expensive Glory. She ran
+herself in Debt to uphold this Appearance, mortgaged her _Estate_,
+and bartered her _Stock_, for the vain Applause of flattering
+Knaves, and scoundrel _Tradesmen_. It was Time to pull in, and keep
+a Hank in the Hand. She saw her Folly, and doffed her _Gear_. It
+was better _go plain_ than run in Debt for Finery; and enough she
+had to do to pay the Debts she had contracted in her _Fit of_
+Vanity.
+
+_Betty_ all the while was minding Business at home, and her Affairs
+prospered amain. Her _Tenants_ became industrious, and her _Estate_
+improved; yet she never thought herself sufficiently _secure_ till
+she got under the new _Protection_ her _Deliverer_ had provided.
+Her Situation is particular. She has a strange Mixture of People on
+her Estate, who are always at Daggers drawing with one another, and
+a mighty Hindrance to her Business. They are _Whites_, _Blacks_,
+and _Black_ and _White_. The _Whites_ only are allowed to be
+_Land-holders_; but the _last_, by hiding half the Face when they
+converse with her, pass for _Whites_, and make good their _Titles_.
+The first are dreadfully maligned by the _Blacks_, who are
+unhappily the more numerous, _lay old Claims_ to her _Lands_, and
+are ever watching for an Opportunity to make a _Riot_, and take
+forcible Possession. 'Till now they were too much favoured by her
+_Sister_, which checked the Industry of her Farmers.
+
+But when they found they had nothing to fear, either at home or
+abroad, they began in earnest to improve _their Concerns_, as they
+were sure they were working for themselves, and in no Danger of
+being dispossessed, by Virtue of _chimerical_ Claims, and
+_Antediluvian Proprietors_.
+
+The _Blacks_, indeed, immediately made a _Riot_ on this new
+Settlement, but could not get Possession; and, lately, a _young
+Jackanapes_ pretended a _Right_ to be _Steward_ to _both Sisters_,
+by Virtue of a _Patent_ he had got from the last _Steward_, as if
+he had a Right to dispose of a _Place_ he had been turned out of
+himself. He came on the Lands, however, with a _bloody-minded_ Crew
+of _skirtless_ Vagabonds, drove off the Cattle, robbed the
+_Hen-roosts_, and _swaggered_ at so _unmerciful_ a Rate, that
+_Blanch_ was frightened out of her Senses, and was fain to _send_
+for a Dram of _Gin_ to restore her Spirits. But if she was
+frightened, her _Guardian_ was not, and had a _Month's Mind_ to
+find out the _Varlet_ in Person, and tread him under his Feet.
+But as he could not leave the _Hall-house_ where the _Court
+was sitting_, he sent a _Lad_ of his own to take Account of him,
+who did the _Business tightly_. He was a _well-mettled Blade_,
+and _Steel_ to the _Back_. He came up with him at the Corner
+of a Farmer's Yard, where he gave him and his _Desperados_ a
+wofull Drubbing, kicked him i'the A----e, _soused_ him in the
+_Horse-pond_, which he swam over to save his Bacon, and looked so
+miserably scared in his Passage, that it's sure he'll never _try
+the Ford_ again.
+
+For a good while before this Alarm happened (which proved nothing
+but a _Bugbear_) both the _Sisters_ had a fair Opportunity of
+minding their Concerns, and getting above the World. _Blanch_ might
+have paid her Debts, and had Money to the fore; but it was ever her
+Misfortune to be _ill-served_ by almost all she employed. Never,
+sure, had Lady so _unhandy_ a Pack about her, and, indeed, it was
+impossible it could well be otherwise; for she did not chuse her
+_Servants_ because they were _fit_ for this, or that _Office_, but
+because they asked, and would have it, or be horribly out of
+Humour else, would make a Noise and _Uproar_ at every _Court-Leet_,
+terrify the _Tenants_ at every _Ale-house_, with strange Stories of
+Designs on their _Copy-holds_, and wicked _Plots_ just ready to
+begin; 'till they turned their Heads, and set them madding. So that
+the poor Lady was fain to _take them in_, to keep Peace at Home,
+and to pay them Wages for not doing her Business. The Consequence
+of which was, she had _Clerks_ could neither write or read; Book,
+and Cash-keepers, that could not _count_ or cast up, or ever heard
+of a _Ballance_ in their Lives. And so ridiculous was her
+Compliance in this Point, that she had once a Lady to curry her
+Horse, and a _Fishmonger_ for a _Grass Bailiff_.
+
+'Tis true, she would often change her Servants, but not a _Barrel
+the better Herring_. If she got one, by chance, knew any thing of
+his Business, the _rest_ never left boddering her 'till they had
+him out. It should never be said they demeaned themselves so much
+as to serve with one, who would spoil every thing by his
+_Rashness_, and disgrace the Service by his _Ignorance_. Now, by
+_Rashness_ they meant _resenting Insults_ and _Injuries_ done their
+Lady; and by _Ignorance_, not knowing how to _buy_ and _sell_, and
+live by the _Loss_. So that, all Things considered, it were a
+Marvel her Affairs should be in better Plight than they are, or her
+Debts be paid with more Ease and Expedition.
+
+_Betty_, in the mean time, is come to an opulent Fortune, has her
+Rents well paid, and her Farms daily improving, and would improve
+ten times more, if her _Sister_ could see her own Advantage so far,
+as to give her that Encouragement she is daily giving to
+_Strangers_, who give her nothing in Return but their Envy and
+Ill-will. But as it is, _Betty_'s in a good Way, and makes the most
+of a bad Market. And since she must not work for her _Sister_, she
+works for herself.
+
+It had been a Custom of hers to buy every thing she wanted from her
+_Sister's Tenants_ and _Tradesmen_, though they used her
+abominably, and put off upon her the worst Goods they had. If the
+Farmer had damaged Hops, he sold them to _Betty Ireland_; if his
+Malt was blinked, away it went to her; and the _Pothecary_ thought
+his decayed Drugs good enough for _Betty_, and instead of burning
+them, laid them by for her, as tho' she were not a Christian, or
+had the same Inside as her Sister.
+
+_Betty_ could not help this contemptuous Treatment, as she had
+nothing she wanted at Home, by reason of her Laziness, though all
+Materials in abundance were at hand. 'Tis incredible to relate,
+but, at the Time I am speaking of, certain Fact, on her whole
+Estate there was not one to be found could make a Buckle for her
+Shoe, or a Pin to her Sleeve; a Pot, a Spit, or any Utensil to cook
+her Victuals, might as well be found among the _Tartars_ as with
+her. She took every thing from her _Sister_ at what Price she
+pleased, unsight unseen, and bought the _Pig in the Poke_.
+Necessity roused her from Stupidity and Sloth, she encouraged her
+Tenants to apply to Trades, assured them of a ready Market, and
+rewarded those that did their Work the best; and, at present, has
+every thing within herself. And tho' it must be owned a very
+unreasonable, and _not to be endured_ Instance of her Impudence,
+she proposes to dress in her own Manufactures, and does not mean
+to trouble her _Sister_ any longer for _cast Cloaths_ and
+_unmerchantable_ commodities. But in every other Respect, she
+desires to keep up a good Correspondence with her, and is daily
+doing every thing in her Power, to gain her Favour, and procure her
+Regards. Whatever she can spare from her ordinary Expences, she, in
+some Shape or other, makes a Present of to her _Sister_, in
+Acknowledgement for Services done, and Kindnesses receiv'd in her
+_Minority_. Has _Blanch_ a Favourite whom she cannot readily
+provide for, a poor Relation on hand, or Retainer to the Family, a
+broken Projector, or cast Serving-man; she has no more to do but
+acquaint _Betty_ with it, who quickly puts him on a _creditable
+Pension_, and never refuses, though she run herself in Debt by it.
+Is _Blanch_ engaged in a Brangle with her _Tenants_, (who, by the
+way, are cursedly litigious) and hard put to it for Hands to do
+her Business, _Betty_ makes an Offer of sending her People to help
+her, and maintaining them abroad at her own Charges. Does a Tenant
+of _Blanch_ come to favour her with a Visit, she receives him with
+Hospitality and Respect, and would sacrifice her Fortune to make
+his Entertainment agreeable.
+
+If all this Complaisance should fail of its Effect, and not so
+succeed as to keep _Blanch_ in good Humour, 'tis easy to say where
+the Fault must lie, and from what Causes her Discontents arise.
+
+In the first Place, it has ever been the Fate of her _Domesticks_
+to be invincibly hated by her _Tenants_ without Difference
+or Distinction, (for, to say Truth, they have no Head for
+_Distingo_'s:) There is but one Thing in the World they hate more,
+and that is _Betty Ireland_. Now, the _Servants_ bear hard on
+_Betty_, to curry Favour with her Sister's _Tenants_, who would go
+half Way to the D----l to have _Betty_ d----d, are for ever cursing
+her, and laying all their Misfortunes at her Door. If the
+_Clothier_ loses his Business, or has his Goods on Hand, 'tis _all
+'long_ of _Betty_: Wheat bears no Price, for _Betty_ has glutted
+the Market. Whereas, in Fact, they never keep the same Markets. But
+they forget, they are all so idle and debauched, such gobling and
+drinking Rascals, and so expensive in _blew Beer_, that they are
+forced to put a double Price on every thing goes to Market; so that
+no Body will deal with them. Indeed, if it incenses them, that
+_Betty_ won't buy, burn her _own Goods_ and take off _theirs_, they
+must e'en turn the Buckle behind. _Blanch_ will be wiser, for her
+own sake, than lay Stresses on her _Sister_, from whom she gets
+more than _by all the World beside_, only to humour a Set of
+grumbling Churls, who don't know what they would be at; and so
+extremely senseless, that it's Matter of Wonder, their Oxen
+don't ride them to the Market, and sell them. 'Tis true, a
+_Linen-weaver_, one of _Blanch_'s Tenants, prevailed on her lately
+to withdraw some Encouragement she had given _Betty_, and transfer
+it to a _Stranger_. But that was owing to bad Advice given her, by
+a _Clerk_ she has since turned off, and sent a stroling among
+_Brandy-shops_ and _Ale-houses_, to _backbite_ his _Lady_ for want
+of other Employment.
+
+Another Cause of _Blanch_'s Dislike to her _Sister_ was, a Fright
+she took, when she was just _delivered_, at some ill-looking
+People, who came from _Betty_'s Lands, and appeared under her
+Window. There's no doubt but _Blanch_ has as much Courage as any
+genteel Lady ought to have, and must have been in a Fit of low
+Spirits when she, and all her Tenants from her, took so senseless
+an alarm, as to run distracted thro' Fear of half a Dozen Fellows
+cutting all their Throats in one Night, who were ready to run
+through Fire and Water for Fear of being hang'd themselves; yet
+certain it is, from this ridiculous Incident, and from nothing
+else, can be derived, that universal Hatred shewn her by _Blanch's
+Tenants_, though they have never seen, spoken with, or had any
+Dealings whatever, either with _Betty_ or her _Tenants_. People
+must be _generous_, as well as _brave_, to forgive those that
+frighten them.
+
+There's another Cause of Dislike among such as have Dealings with
+_Betty_'s Tenants who come on Business, or to visit her _Sister_,
+that they run in debt with them, and don't pay. So do all their
+Neighbours, for that matter; but they complain of none but _Betty_,
+though it is very well known they make ample Reprisals on her; and
+_one Bite_ of theirs, is worth a hundred of _Betty_'s, who are none
+but such as are despised at home, and can get neither Credit or
+Company there; for _Betty_ is not yet arrived to that Degree of
+Politeness, as to court and caress _Highway-men_ and _Sharpers_,
+only because _they keep good Company_, and are Gentlemen of _nice
+Honour_, but sincerely wishes her _Sister_ to hang them all.
+
+The last I shall mention (and, to be sure, a wise Cause of Dislike
+it is) _Betty_ goes once, at least, every Year to pay her Sister a
+Visit, carries all her Money, puts on her best Cloaths, lives high
+as long as she has a Penny left. This vexes her _Sister_, and many
+a _Slut_ and _Flirt_ she calls _Betty_, at the very time she is
+throwing away her Money with both Hands for the Tradesmen and
+Shoeboys to scramble up. They are both Fools; _One_ for shewing
+this Contempt, and the other for putting herself in the Way of it.
+
+It is wished, but probably in vain, that the two _Sisters_ would
+come to a better Understanding. They that have considered the true
+Interest of both, see plainly that the _elder_, and consequently
+the _younger_, must be shortly undone, if these Bickerings and ill
+Offices continue. So _unnatural_ a Quarrel between near Relations
+must make them despised by all the _Neighbours_ around, who are
+hourly taking the Advantage of it, and _profiting_ themselves by
+the Hindrance the _Sisters_ give to each other. But their Manners
+and Disposition are so different, that it's next to impossible they
+should ever love one another; tho', for mutual Interest, and to
+make that Figure in the Eye of the World which two _Ladies_ of
+their Distinction and Fortune ought to assume, their Friends may
+agree to promote _jointly_ their Interests, and never heed how
+peevish and untoward _either_ of them may be, or pay any Regard to
+the _fanciful Aversions_, and ungrounded Jealousies, which are
+always inseparable from a female Breast.
+
+Tho' in this History I have rather copied the _chaste Brevity_ of
+_Cornelius Nepos_, than the diffused and _chatty_ Eloquence of
+_Plutarch_; I shall conclude, in Imitation of the latter, with a
+Description of the two _Ladies_, their Persons, Manners, and
+Inclinations; and, in drawing the _Parallel_, with Freedom
+represent, their Vices as well as _Vertues_, their Faults as well
+as their Perfections.
+
+_Blanch_ is by much the taller, neat, timbersome, and well made, a
+lively Look and a sprightly Air. _Betty_'s Face is full out as
+_handsome_ as her _Sister_'s, tho' not so regular, has more
+_variety_ and striking Beauties, and, with equal _Dressing_, would
+appear more lovely than the other; but she's a _Slattern_ in her
+_Dress_.
+
+As to their _Tempers_, _Pride_ is the prevailing Passion of the
+_first_, and _Vanity_ of the _second_; from which naturally, and
+unavoidably arises, every observable Character of their Mind and
+Manners. _Blanch_'s Pride makes her selfish and reserved,
+contemptuous, if not rough, in her Behaviour. _Betty_'s Vanity
+makes her _open_ and communicative, fond of _shewing herself_ on
+all Occasions, complaisant, and caressing, to a Degree of Flattery.
+As _Blanch_ does not know what it is to have Love or Affection for
+any one but herself, so she expects it from no one, but claims a
+great deal of Respect. _Betty_ doesn't know what Respect for her
+means, but to gain her Love and Liking would part with all she had.
+_Blanch_ is frugal in the main, not very hospitable, and seldom
+lavish but in private Pleasures. _Betty_ is hospitable to
+Prodigality, lavish to Folly, and thinks nothing a Pleasure that
+others don't share in. Hence it comes, that the first loves her
+Money above all things, the _second_ less than any thing she has
+any value for at all; that one is anxious to _get_, the _other_ in
+haste to _spend_. _Blanch_ has a good Understanding, but does not
+_know the World_, and is commonly _choused_ by her Neighbours.
+_Betty_ has no Opportunity of _knowing the World_, as her _Sister_
+won't let her go much abroad or converse with the _Neighbours_; she
+has but little Experience, and, to be sure, is not very _wise_, but
+is the quickest in the World at finding out _a Fool_. The _elder_
+is _cautious_, and hides carefully every Fault she is conscious of;
+the _younger_ is not conscious of any Fault of Folly whatever; so
+they all come out in her _communicative Fits_, which seize her as
+often as she gets a Stranger to talk to. _Blanch_ is the more
+censorious, and _Betty_ the greater Liar.
+
+If either of the _Ladies_ think the Picture not like, let them call
+to mind the Story of a famous Painter, who had drawn the Portrait
+of a young Man, whostood very well with himself, but didn't please
+him. "You have drawn me," said he, "exactly the _Reverse_ of every
+thing I am." _If it be so_, replied the Painter, _that must be your
+Likeness_, and set the Picture on the Head.
+
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+<p>Title: The True Life of Betty Ireland</p>
+<p>       With Her Birth, Education, and Adventures. Together with Some Account of Her Elder Sister Blanch of Britain. Containing Sundry Very Curious Particulars</p>
+<p>Author: Anonymous</p>
+<p>Release Date: November 9, 2007  [eBook #23390]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE LIFE OF BETTY IRELAND***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Suzan Flanagan,<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class='center'>
+<p><br /></p>
+<table border="2" class="bbox" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2" summary="Transcriber's Notes">
+<tr><td align='center'><h2>TRANSCRIBER&rsquo;S NOTE</h2>
+<p>The original spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been retained. However,
+long s&rsquo;s have been transcribed as modern s&rsquo;s, and minor punctuation
+corrections have been made on pages 36, 37, and 39.</p>
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="center pad2">
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i004a.png" width="400" height="43" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p class="fm12">T&nbsp;&nbsp;H&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;U&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p>
+<p class="fm22">L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p>
+<p class="fm12">OF</p>
+
+<p class="fm18"><i>Betty&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;L&nbsp;&nbsp;A&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;D.</i></p>
+<div class="figcenter pad2" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i004b.png" width="400" height="40" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p class="fm10">[Price a <i>British</i> Sixpence.]
+</p>
+</div>
+<hr />
+
+<div class="center">
+<p class="fm12">T&nbsp;&nbsp;H&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;U&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p>
+<p class="fm22">L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p>
+<p class="fm12">OF</p>
+
+<p class="fm18"><i>Betty&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;L&nbsp;&nbsp;A&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;D.</i></p>
+<p class="fm12">WITH</p>
+<div class="pad3">
+<p class="fm14">Her <span class="smcap">B&nbsp;i&nbsp;r&nbsp;t&nbsp;h,&nbsp; E&nbsp;d&nbsp;u&nbsp;c&nbsp;a&nbsp;t&nbsp;i&nbsp;o&nbsp;n,</span> and<br />
+<span class="smcap">A&nbsp;d&nbsp;v&nbsp;e&nbsp;n&nbsp;t&nbsp;u&nbsp;r&nbsp;e&nbsp;s</span>.</p>
+</div>
+<p class="fm8">Together with</p>
+<div class="pad3">
+<p class="fm12">Some Account of her elder Sister <i>BLANCH</i><br />
+of <i>BRITAIN</i>.</p>
+</div>
+<p class="fm8">Containing,</p>
+<div class="pad3">
+<p class="fm10">Sundry very curious Particulars.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i006.png" width="250" height="168" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<div class="pad3">
+<p class="fm12"><i>LONDON</i>, Printed:</p>
+</div>
+<p class="fm10"><i>DUBLIN</i>, Reprinted for <span class="smcap">Peter Wilson</span>, in <i>Dame-street</i>.<br />
+MDCCLIII.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i008.png" width="500" height="184" alt="" title="" />
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="center"><div class="pad">
+<p class="fm12">T&nbsp;&nbsp;H&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;U&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p></div>
+<p class="fm22">L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;E</p>
+
+<p class="fm12">OF</p>
+<p class="fm18"><i>Betty&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;E&nbsp;&nbsp;L&nbsp;&nbsp;A&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;D.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>It is agreed on all Hands, that <i>Betty Ireland</i>
+was a younger Daughter by a <i>second
+Venter</i>; let, at first, to run wild in the
+Woods, cloathed with Skins and fed with Acorns;
+till a <i>famous Hunter</i> took her in his
+Toils, and, liking her <i>Countenance</i>, gave her to
+a Son of his, a <i>Lad</i>, to bring up. The <i>Girl</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+was born to a good Estate, but ill tenanted,
+and run to waste. Her <i>Farms</i> neither <i>meared</i>
+or bounded, her Rents never paid, as she had
+no <i>certain</i> Tenants, and had little more to claim
+than a Pepper-corn Acknowledgment. She
+had no Relation to manage her <i>Demesnes</i>, and
+could hardly be said to be possessed of any
+thing.</p>
+
+<p>In this Condition the young <i>Sportsman</i> found
+her, was fond of her at first, and resolved to
+marry her; and <i>happy</i> had it been both for
+<i>him</i> and <i>her</i>, if he had kept his Resolution,
+and performed the <i>Contract</i>. But he hankered
+after his elder Brother&rsquo;s <i>Estate</i>, and, on his
+Death, suddenly got the Tenants to <i>attorn</i> to
+<i>him</i>, and basely dispossessed his <i>Nephew</i>. But
+instead of an <i>Estate</i>, he got nothing but a
+<i>Law-suit</i>, lived in <i>Broils</i>, and dyed a <i>Beggar</i>.
+Whereas had he quitted all Pretensions at home,
+married <i>Betty</i> and minded her Concerns, he
+had soon been in a Condition not to envy his
+Brother; and, perhaps, had left a <i>second Family</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>
+little inferior in <i>Greatness</i> to the first.</p>
+
+<p>This was the only Chance ever <i>Betty</i> had
+to make a <i>separate</i> Fortune, set up for herself,
+and be <i>independent</i> of her <i>Sister</i>. She was ever
+after <i>beholden</i> to <i>her</i> for maintaining her <i>Rights</i>,
+settling her <i>Affairs</i>, and bringing her <i>Tenants</i>
+to Reason.</p>
+
+<p>Neither <i>Betty</i> or her Sister were yet of
+Age, but the Younger far from it, and continued
+under such <i>Guardians</i>, as the <i>Elder</i> recommended,
+and had chosen for herself. It was
+natural to think they should chiefly be employed
+in ordering the Affairs of <i>Blanch</i>, and
+be less attentive to benefit the other. Accordingly,
+from time to time, they sent <i>Proxies</i>,
+to let Leases, keep her <i>Courts</i>, and <i>force</i> Possession,
+where the Tenants held over. Little,
+however, was done for <i>Betty</i>, though they put
+her <i>Sister</i> to great Charges; nor did she thrive
+in the World to any Purpose, &rsquo;till she came
+under the Care of a good <i>orderly Gentlewoman</i>,
+who was also <i>Guardian</i> to <i>Blanch</i>, a notable<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>
+<i>Manager</i>, and very affectionate to her <i>Wards</i>,
+understood their Business to a hair, and was
+never to be imposed on or <i>over-reached</i>. Every
+thing she put her hand to prospered, and every
+thing against her miscarried.</p>
+
+<p>When she first looked into <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s Affairs,
+she found them in a manner desperate; her
+small Revenues had been embezzled by <i>Agents</i>,
+Farms set to <i>insolvent</i> Tenants, <i>double</i> Leases
+made out, huge <i>Fines</i> taken in Hand and sunk
+in their own Pockets. She was preyed upon by
+Vagabonds and <i>Outlaws</i>; and, to compleat her
+Misfortunes, a <i>Foreign Count</i> fell in love with
+her, an odious Monster and <i>braggadocio</i> Huffer.
+He swore bitterly no one else should have her,
+and to support his Claim, brought in his Pocket,
+a <i>pretended Licence</i> from the <i>Spiritual Court</i>,
+and a Pack of <i>outlandish Goths</i> along with him,
+to take Possession of her Freehold, and break
+down her Gates. But her <i>Sister</i> generously
+came in to her Assistance, repelled Force by
+Force, and rescued her from a Tyrant Ravisher,
+built Houses for herself, and Fences for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>
+Tenants, and left some of her own People with
+her to instruct them in Trades and Husbandry.</p>
+
+<p>She was then, it might be thought, in a
+Way of making herself respected, both by her
+own and her <i>Sister</i>&rsquo;s Tenants, and not stand in
+need of any more Supplies from them; and if
+the <i>good Woman</i>, her guardian, had lived to
+bring Matters to any Kind of Establishment,
+Things had been better. But she unfortunately
+died, more, however, to her <i>Sister</i>&rsquo;s Disadvantage
+than <i>hers</i>; for the <i>Guardian</i> had chalked
+out a Track of Proceeding for <i>Betty</i>, which she
+could hardly miss to follow. The <i>Elder</i>, however,
+was inconsolable for the Loss of her <i>Guardian</i>,
+and resolved, for the future, to manage
+her Concerns by the Assistance of a <i>Steward</i>, a
+Sort of a Cousin to her <i>Guardian</i> deceased, but
+no way allied to her, in Worth or Understanding.
+He minded nothing but Hunting and
+<i>Puppet-shews</i>, Feasts and Revels; and though
+the uncomeliest of an <i>ill-favoured Race</i>, spent his
+Lady&rsquo;s Money in adorning his own Person, instead<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+of <i>fencing</i> her Grounds. He was laughed
+at by one half of the Neighbours, and despised
+and gulled by the other. In a Word, he was
+every Way unfit for the Charge.</p>
+
+<p>His Son succeeded to the Place; he was a
+grave-looking, orderly young Man, main religious,
+and skilled in the <i>Customs of the Manor</i>.
+Both the Sisters had great Hopes their Affairs
+would thrive under his Management. <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s,
+indeed, went on well for a while; but, in the
+End, both of them had Cause to complain,
+and curse the Day they had bethought them
+of employing a <i>Steward</i> in their Concerns. He
+was not so great a Fool as his Father; yet nothing
+he put his Hand to succeeded. He was
+<i>bubbled</i> by every <i>Neighbour</i> he dealt with, and
+choused by every <i>Tenant</i> he trusted. His Word
+could never be relied on, as he had always
+some quibble to evade it. His Wife made him
+hated by the Tenants; and for a finishing Stroke
+to his undoing, and compleat the Ruin of his
+<i>Wards</i>, he pretended the <i>Steward</i> had a Right
+to hold Courts without <i>Juries</i>, and by his own<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+Authority levy Money for <i>Repairs</i>. The Tenants
+would not endure this Invasion on their
+Rights, but stoutly opposed it; and, after a
+hard Struggle, got the better, turned him out
+of the <i>Stewardship</i>, and some of them finding
+him one Day at a <i>why-not</i>, tied him to a Rope,
+and hanged him in a Frolick.</p>
+
+<p>The Office of a <i>Steward</i> was now abolished
+for a Time, and the elder <i>Sister</i> resolved to take
+her Affairs entirely into her <i>own Hands</i>, and
+have neither <i>Steward</i> or <i>Guardian</i> for the future.
+The Condition, indeed, of <i>both</i> was deplorable.
+There had been nothing during the
+<i>late Quarrel</i>, but Riot and Plunder, Rents unpaid,
+and Soldiers quartered at Discretion; so
+that, in order to retrieve their Affairs, it seemed
+necessary to put things on a <i>new Footing</i>, and
+trust none but themselves to manage them. But
+whatever they intended mattered but little.</p>
+
+<p>Among the Soldiers quartered on them was
+a bustling Knave, who from a Corporal had
+come to be a Captain. He was bold as a Lion,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+and <i>crafty</i> as a Fox. He had cajoled his Soldiers
+to stand by him; and pretending <i>Compassion</i>
+for the Sisters, offered, or rather forced
+himself, to be their <i>Guardian</i>. They only complied
+because they could not help it; and he
+took more <i>rule</i> over them, than ever <i>Steward</i> or
+<i>Guardian</i> had done before him.</p>
+
+<p>He seemed, indeed, to mend Matters in the
+Beginning, but, in reality, did <i>unrepairable</i> Damage
+to <i>Blanch</i>, though considerable Services
+to <i>Betty</i>. The Neighbours all around thought
+they were thriving apace, and began to envy
+their Greatness. The Reason of which was, that
+he always took care to have the <i>Girls</i> well
+dressed, especially when they went a <i>visiting</i>,
+and sent Word before-hand (for he was <span class="nb">d&mdash;&mdash;d</span>
+proud) that all the World should <i>Cap</i> to them
+as they passed along. He stinted them in every
+thing else, but <i>spent</i> all he could <i>rap</i> and <i>run</i> to
+make them <i>fine</i>. <i>Betty</i> was <i>bashful</i>, and kept
+pretty much at home; but when <i>Blanch</i> went
+<i>abroad</i>, she made a <i>flaming</i> Appearance, <i>held</i>
+up her Head among the <i>Highest</i>, and <i>insulted</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>
+the <i>Proudest</i> with her <i>Braveries</i>.</p>
+
+<p>But all the while Things were but <i>uncomfortable</i>
+at home, though she made such a <i>tearing
+Figure</i> when abroad. Nothing to be had for
+Farms, by reason the Soldiers put <i>in</i> and <i>out</i> as
+they pleased. No <i>Leets</i> or <i>Manor Courts</i> were
+minded. No <i>taxing</i> for <i>Repairs</i> and <i>Bounds</i>,
+but the Soldiers <i>taxed</i> for <i>Contingencies</i> as much
+Money as they could hear any one had. So
+that the <i>Tenants</i> found themselves in a worse
+<i>Pickle</i> than ever they had been under the
+Management of a <i>Steward</i>. They longed for
+Courts and <i>Inquests</i>, and to have every thing
+set on the old Bottom again.</p>
+
+<p>They heard of a <i>poor Boy</i>, a Son of the late
+<i>Steward</i>&rsquo;s, who had run away from the <i>Lands</i>
+the Time his Father was hanged, and was now
+grown up to Years of Discretion. As he had
+<i>bit</i> a good while on the Bridle, they thought he
+might be tamed, more careful than his <i>Father</i>,
+and do them more Justice and Kindness. They
+brought him home in a <i>Hurry</i>; and, as it&rsquo;s natural<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+to run from one Extreme to another,
+were sure they were all <i>made</i> when they got him
+into the <i>Stewardship</i>.</p>
+
+<p>It must be owned, he was a pleasant, good-humoured
+Fellow as ever broke Bread, civilly
+behaved, and by no means wanted Capacity for
+the Business. But he was <i>idle</i> to a Degree, followed
+<span class="nb">W&mdash;&mdash;ng</span> and Horse-racing; and provided
+he could borrow Money enough from the
+<i>Tenants</i>, or get <i>Presents</i> from the <i>Neighbours</i>, to
+treat his Wenches and buy them <i>Top-knots</i>, never
+heeded how <i>Accounts</i> were settled, how he
+held the <i>Courts</i>, or how he paid the Servants.
+Farm-houses went to decay, and Strangers forestalled
+the Markets. Few People, however,
+could find in their Heart to hate him. They
+had a Love for him, though he was daily undoing
+them: For it was always <i>their Humour</i> to
+like a <i>boon Companion</i>; and instead of crossing
+his Prodigality, they followed his Example,
+<span class="nb">wh&mdash;&mdash;ed</span> it away from the highest to the lowest,
+revelled and caroused for <i>dear Blood</i>, and were
+never better pleased than when the last Penny<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+was a going. It became a <i>Fashion</i> to be Bankrupt;
+to be Rich, was to lose all Credit; and to
+be Just, was the Mark of a Scoundrel.</p>
+
+<p>But though the <i>elder Sister</i> was well-nigh
+undone by him, he did a good Turn by <i>Betty</i>,
+and sent one of his <i>Cousins</i> to take care of her
+Concerns, who had a good Farm of his own
+under her, and was well-beloved over the whole
+Estate. He kept <i>Leet</i> and <i>Court-Baron</i>, presented
+Vagabonds at the Sessions, and gave Rewards
+for apprehending <i>Out-laws</i>. He set the
+Tenants to Work, <i>lived constantly among them</i>,
+and looked himself into every thing. <i>Betty</i> began
+to thrive, and was less expensive to her
+<i>Sister</i>, who had wasted huge Sums to keep her
+Head above Water. She stuck to Business, and
+prospered mainly, &rsquo;till the <i>Steward</i>&rsquo;s Brother got
+himself into the Place, who played <span class="nb">H&mdash;&mdash;ll</span> with
+every thing, and brought the two Sisters to the
+Brink of Ruin.</p>
+
+<p>He was rash, senseless, obstinate, and ill-minded;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>
+none of the Neighbours would <i>deal</i>
+with him, or the <i>Tenants</i> trust him, as there
+was no believing one Word he said, or promise
+that he made; for he had taken an Oath when
+he was young never to speak Truth. He began
+his Vagaries by putting the <i>Curate</i> in the <i>Stocks</i>,
+for refusing to teach a new <i>Catechism</i> of his <i>own
+Invention</i>. He entered into a Plot to secure the
+<i>Elder Sister</i> in the House of Correction, and
+make her do Penance in the Church, under
+Pretence of Carnal Conversation. He agreed to
+sell <i>Betty</i> to a Cousin of his, a great Lord in the
+Neighbourhood, who longed to have her for a
+Waiting-woman to his Wife. So the <i>Tenants</i>
+made short Work with him, rose one and all,
+and sent him a-packing to his Cousin, where he
+was fain to be a Serving-man, since he could
+not send <i>Betty</i> to be a Serving-maid.</p>
+
+<p>Both the <i>Sisters</i> took an Oath never more to
+have a <i>Steward</i> again, and to abolish the very
+Name from among them, with a reserve to his
+Daughters, who had married abroad, and were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>
+good sort of Women, in their Way.</p>
+
+<p>Here it was that <i>both the Sisters</i> had their
+Affairs put on a sure and lasting Footing. The
+Rights of the <i>Tenants</i> were narrowly examined,
+and all pretended Powers of the Steward abolished
+by a Rule on the <i>Court Manor</i> Books.
+There was, indeed, some Difficulty in bringing
+it about, and a power of Money laid out on the
+Occasion. But it was well bestowed had it been
+twice as much.</p>
+
+<p>There was a <i>Stripling</i> among the neighbouring
+<i>Fens</i>, who had married a Daughter of
+the <i>Steward</i>&rsquo;s, and had got the best Estate there
+by the Diligence of his <i>Ancestors</i>, who were
+the principal <i>Engineers</i> in <i>draining</i> and <i>banking</i>
+the Country. They had often borrowed Money
+from <i>Blanch</i> to carry on the Work, to <i>stem</i>
+the Water when the <i>Fen-men</i> were in despair,
+and prevailed on her to send a strong <i>Posse</i> of
+her Tenants to keep off some malicious Neighbours,
+who would ever and anon be <i>boring</i>
+Holes in the <i>Dikes</i>, and endangered the Overflowing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+of all the Land they had gained. If
+ever these <i>wretched People</i> shewed any thing that
+looked like <i>Gratitude</i>, it was to the Family of
+their <i>Engineers</i>; and this young Man improved
+it to his own Advantage, and that of <i>Blanch</i>,
+whom he acknowledged the Preserver of the
+<i>Fen-men</i>, who deserved Preservation on no other
+Account than to make them <i>Pack-horses</i> and
+<i>Carriers</i>. They were, indeed, a middle Species
+between Men and Brutes, and chiefly compounded
+of the latter. But this young <i>Adventurer</i>
+had got the Ascendant over them, and,
+as we ordinarily say of vicious Horses, had made
+the <span class="nb">D&mdash;&mdash;l</span> come out of them. He <i>ringed</i> them
+by the Nose, and <i>bled</i> them with the <i>Spur</i>, and
+so throughly<!--Page 18: sic--> <i>broke</i> them (for he was a special
+Horseman) that they never kicked or plunged
+when he was <i>in the Saddle</i>; but, as the Nature
+of Beasts is, became the fonder of him the
+rougher he handled them.</p>
+
+<p>When he understood that <i>Blanch</i> and her
+<i>Sister</i> were so hampered and <i>Tyrannically</i> treated
+by the <i>Steward</i>, he came to their Assistance, supplied<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+them with Money, which he raised from
+the <i>Fen-men</i>, and fairly set them free from his
+Oppression and Rapine, reversed his <i>Grants</i>, cancelled
+his sham Leases, restored Possessions,
+<i>Leets</i> and <i>Manor-Courts</i>, made up <i>Fences</i> for the
+Tenants, and so strongly secured their <i>Copyholds</i>,
+that there is no likelihood they will ever be
+<i>ousted</i> or much <i>disturbed</i> again. And, to crown
+all the Services he had done the two Sisters,
+he <i>recommended</i> them, before he parted, to the
+Care of a <i>neighbouring Lord</i>, a Cousin of his own,
+and a <i>right honest Man</i>, who proved a Father to
+<i>them</i> and their People, defended their <i>Rights</i>,
+and secured their <i>Properties</i>.</p>
+
+<p>And yet <i>Blanch</i> could never rightly like the
+<i>Fen-man</i>, as she called him, though he had
+done so much for her. She could not comport
+herself with his Manners and his Humour,
+hated the Servants he brought with him, complained
+they were too costly to her, though she
+kept them sparingly, and even quarrelled (so
+exceptious are Women) to the Cut of their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+Cloaths, and the Colour of their <i>Liveries</i>.</p>
+
+<p>But <i>Betty Ireland</i> had more Gratitude than
+her <i>Sister</i>, adored him while he stayed with her,
+and to this Day <i>remembers</i> him as her <i>great Deliverer</i>,
+the Protector of her Life, and the
+Founder of her Fortune.</p>
+
+<p>She, indeed, had double Obligations, as
+her Condition was more helpless than her <i>Sister</i>&rsquo;s,
+and she had more severely felt the <i>Tyranny</i> of
+the <i>Steward</i>, who, because she could not so readily
+complain of him, had first <i>stripped</i> her of
+all she had, and then sold her to Bondage. But
+both <i>Sisters</i> ought surely to reflect, that all the
+Happiness, and all the Security they have since
+enjoyed, has been owing to the <i>Friendships</i> he
+procured them, when he put them under the Protection
+of <i>his Cousins</i>; and that he has effectually
+banished the <i>Stewards</i> thereby, who would
+doubtless otherwise be meddling with their Affairs,
+and use them worse than ever they did
+before, as coming <i>in without Leave</i>, they would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+act without Controul.</p>
+
+<p>But maugre all these Considerations, <i>Blanch</i>
+was glad when he left her, and ready to leap
+out of her Skin for joy. She thought of nothing
+but Diversions, spent her <i>Time</i> and <i>Money</i> in
+<i>visiting</i> and <i>dressing</i>, ransacked the Globe to set
+off her Person, and, it must be owned, she never
+looked handsomer in her Life. Wherever
+she went, she was adored as an Angel, surrounded
+by admiring Throngs, and Thousands
+hanging on her <i>Look</i>.</p>
+
+<p>But all this was empty Pageantry and too expensive
+Glory. She ran herself in Debt to uphold
+this Appearance, mortgaged her <i>Estate</i>, and bartered
+her <i>Stock</i>, for the vain Applause of flattering
+Knaves, and scoundrel <i>Tradesmen</i>. It was
+Time to pull in, and keep a Hank in the Hand.
+She saw her Folly, and doffed her <i>Gear</i>. It was
+better <i>go plain</i> than run in Debt for Finery; and
+enough she had to do to pay the Debts she had
+contracted in her <i>Fit of</i> Vanity.</p>
+
+<p><i>Betty</i> all the while was minding Business<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+at home, and her Affairs prospered amain. Her
+<i>Tenants</i> became industrious, and her <i>Estate</i> improved;
+yet she never thought herself sufficiently
+<i>secure</i> till she got under the new <i>Protection</i> her
+<i>Deliverer</i> had provided. Her Situation is particular.
+She has a strange Mixture of People
+on her Estate, who are always at Daggers drawing
+with one another, and a mighty Hindrance
+to her Business. They are <i>Whites</i>, <i>Blacks</i>, and
+<i>Black</i> and <i>White</i>. The <i>Whites</i> only are allowed
+to be <i>Land-holders</i>; but the <i>last</i>, by hiding half
+the Face when they converse with her, pass for
+<i>Whites</i>, and make good their <i>Titles</i>. The first
+are dreadfully maligned by the <i>Blacks</i>, who
+are unhappily the more numerous, <i>lay old Claims</i>
+to her <i>Lands</i>, and are ever watching for an Opportunity
+to make a <i>Riot</i>, and take forcible Possession.
+&rsquo;Till now they were too much favoured
+by her <i>Sister</i>, which checked the Industry of her
+Farmers.</p>
+
+<p>But when they found they had nothing to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span>
+fear, either at home or abroad, they began in
+earnest to improve <i>their Concerns</i>, as they were
+sure they were working for themselves, and in
+no Danger of being dispossessed, by Virtue of
+<i>chimerical</i> Claims, and <i>Antediluvian Proprietors</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>Blacks</i>, indeed, immediately made a
+<i>Riot</i> on this new Settlement, but could not get
+Possession; and, lately, a <i>young Jackanapes</i> pretended
+a <i>Right</i> to be <i>Steward</i> to <i>both Sisters</i>, by
+Virtue of a <i>Patent</i> he had got from the last
+<i>Steward</i>, as if he had a Right to dispose of a
+<i>Place</i> he had been turned out of himself. He
+came on the Lands, however, with a <i>bloody-minded</i>
+Crew of <i>skirtless</i> Vagabonds, drove off
+the Cattle, robbed the <i>Hen-roosts</i>, and <i>swaggered</i>
+at so <i>unmerciful</i> a Rate, that <i>Blanch</i> was
+frightened out of her Senses, and was fain to
+<i>send</i> for a Dram of <i>Gin</i> to restore her Spirits.
+But if she was frightened, her <i>Guardian</i> was not,
+and had a <i>Month&rsquo;s Mind</i> to find out the <i>Varlet</i>
+in Person, and tread him under his Feet. But
+as he could not leave the <i>Hall-house</i> where the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+<i>Court was sitting</i>, he sent a <i>Lad</i> of his own to
+take Account of him, who did the <i>Business
+tightly</i>. He was a <i>well-mettled Blade</i>, and <i>Steel</i>
+to the <i>Back</i>. He came up with him at the Corner
+of a Farmer&rsquo;s Yard, where he gave him
+and his <i>Desperados</i> a wofull Drubbing, kicked
+him i&rsquo;the <span class="nb">A&mdash;&mdash;e,</span> <i>soused</i> him in the <i>Horse-pond</i>,
+which he swam over to save his Bacon, and
+looked so miserably scared in his Passage, that
+it&rsquo;s sure he&rsquo;ll never <i>try the Ford</i> again.</p>
+
+<p>For a good while before this Alarm happened
+(which proved nothing but a <i>Bugbear</i>)
+both the <i>Sisters</i> had a fair Opportunity of minding
+their Concerns, and getting above the World.
+<i>Blanch</i> might have paid her Debts, and had
+Money to the fore; but it was ever her Misfortune
+to be <i>ill-served</i> by almost all she employed.
+Never, sure, had Lady so <i>unhandy</i> a Pack about
+her, and, indeed, it was impossible it could well
+be otherwise; for she did not chuse her <i>Servants</i>
+because they were <i>fit</i> for this, or that <i>Office</i>, but
+because they asked, and would have it, or be
+horribly out of Humour else, would make a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+Noise and <i>Uproar</i> at every <i>Court-Leet</i>, terrify
+the <i>Tenants</i> at every <i>Ale-house</i>, with strange Stories
+of Designs on their <i>Copy-holds</i>, and wicked
+<i>Plots</i> just ready to begin; &rsquo;till they turned their
+Heads, and set them madding. So that the
+poor Lady was fain to <i>take them in</i>, to keep
+Peace at Home, and to pay them Wages for
+not doing her Business. The Consequence of
+which was, she had <i>Clerks</i> could neither write
+or read; Book, and Cash-keepers, that could
+not <i>count</i> or cast up, or ever heard of a <i>Ballance</i>
+in their Lives. And so ridiculous was her Compliance
+in this Point, that she had once a Lady
+to curry her Horse, and a <i>Fishmonger</i> for a <i>Grass
+Bailiff</i>.</p>
+
+<p>&rsquo;Tis true, she would often change her Servants,
+but not a <i>Barrel the better Herring</i>. If
+she got one, by chance, knew any thing of his
+Business, the <i>rest</i> never left boddering her &rsquo;till
+they had him out. It should never be said they
+demeaned themselves so much as to serve with
+one, who would spoil every thing by his <i>Rashness</i>,
+and disgrace the Service by his <i>Ignorance</i>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+Now, by <i>Rashness</i> they meant <i>resenting Insults</i>
+and <i>Injuries</i> done their Lady; and by <i>Ignorance</i>,
+not knowing how to <i>buy</i> and <i>sell</i>, and live by
+the <i>Loss</i>. So that, all Things considered, it
+were a Marvel her Affairs should be in better
+Plight than they are, or her Debts be paid with
+more Ease and Expedition.</p>
+
+<p><i>Betty</i>, in the mean time, is come to an
+opulent Fortune, has her Rents well paid, and
+her Farms daily improving, and would improve
+ten times more, if her <i>Sister</i> could see her own
+Advantage so far, as to give her that Encouragement
+she is daily giving to <i>Strangers</i>, who give
+her nothing in Return but their Envy and Ill-will.
+But as it is, <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s in a good Way, and
+makes the most of a bad Market. And since
+she must not work for her <i>Sister</i>, she works for
+herself.</p>
+
+<p>It had been a Custom of hers to buy every
+thing she wanted from her <i>Sister&rsquo;s Tenants</i> and
+<i>Tradesmen</i>, though they used her abominably,
+and put off upon her the worst Goods they had.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+If the Farmer had damaged Hops, he sold them
+to <i>Betty Ireland</i>; if his Malt was blinked, away
+it went to her; and the <i>Pothecary</i> thought his decayed
+Drugs good enough for <i>Betty</i>, and instead
+of burning them, laid them by for her, as tho&rsquo;
+she were not a Christian, or had the same Inside
+as her Sister.</p>
+
+<p><i>Betty</i> could not help this contemptuous
+Treatment, as she had nothing she wanted
+at Home, by reason of her Laziness, though
+all Materials in abundance were at hand. &rsquo;Tis
+incredible to relate, but, at the Time I am
+speaking of, certain Fact, on her whole Estate
+there was not one to be found could make a
+Buckle for her Shoe, or a Pin to her Sleeve;
+a Pot, a Spit, or any Utensil to cook her Victuals,
+might as well be found among the <i>Tartars</i>
+as with her. She took every thing from
+her <i>Sister</i> at what Price she pleased, unsight unseen,
+and bought the <i>Pig in the Poke</i>. Necessity
+roused her from Stupidity and Sloth, she encouraged
+her Tenants to apply to Trades, assured
+them of a ready Market, and rewarded<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+those that did their Work the best; and, at present,
+has every thing within herself. And tho&rsquo;
+it must be owned a very unreasonable, and <i>not
+to be endured</i> Instance of her Impudence, she
+proposes to dress in her own Manufactures, and
+does not mean to trouble her <i>Sister</i> any longer
+for <i>cast Cloaths</i> and <i>unmerchantable</i> commodities.
+But in every other Respect, she desires to keep
+up a good Correspondence with her, and is daily
+doing every thing in her Power, to gain her
+Favour, and procure her Regards. Whatever
+she can spare from her ordinary Expences, she, in
+some Shape or other, makes a Present of to her
+<i>Sister</i>, in Acknowledgement for Services done, and
+Kindnesses receiv&rsquo;d in her <i>Minority</i>. Has <i>Blanch</i>
+a Favourite whom she cannot readily provide for,
+a poor Relation on hand, or Retainer to the Family,
+a broken Projector, or cast Serving-man;
+she has no more to do but acquaint <i>Betty</i> with
+it, who quickly puts him on a <i>creditable Pension</i>,
+and never refuses, though she run herself in
+Debt by it. Is <i>Blanch</i> engaged in a Brangle with
+her <i>Tenants</i>, (who, by the way, are cursedly
+litigious) and hard put to it for Hands to do her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+Business, <i>Betty</i> makes an Offer of sending her
+People to help her, and maintaining them abroad
+at her own Charges. Does a Tenant of <i>Blanch</i>
+come to favour her with a Visit, she receives
+him with Hospitality and Respect, and would
+sacrifice her Fortune to make his Entertainment
+agreeable.</p>
+
+<p>If all this Complaisance should fail of its Effect,
+and not so succeed as to keep <i>Blanch</i> in good
+Humour, &rsquo;tis easy to say where the Fault must
+lie, and from what Causes her Discontents arise.</p>
+
+<p>In the first Place, it has ever been the Fate
+of her <i>Domesticks</i> to be invincibly hated by her
+<i>Tenants</i> without Difference or Distinction, (for,
+to say Truth, they have no Head for <i>Distingo</i>&rsquo;s:)
+There is but one Thing in the World they hate
+more, and that is <i>Betty Ireland</i>. Now, the <i>Servants</i>
+bear hard on <i>Betty</i>, to curry Favour with
+her Sister&rsquo;s <i>Tenants</i>, who would go half Way to
+the <span class="nb">D&mdash;&mdash;l</span> to have <i>Betty</i> <span class="nb">d&mdash;&mdash;d,</span> are for ever cursing
+her, and laying all their Misfortunes at her
+Door. If the <i>Clothier</i> loses his Business, or has his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+Goods on Hand, &rsquo;tis <i>all &rsquo;long</i> of <i>Betty</i>: Wheat
+bears no Price, for <i>Betty</i> has glutted the Market.
+Whereas, in Fact, they never keep the same
+Markets. But they forget, they are all so idle
+and debauched, such gobling and drinking Rascals,
+and so expensive in <i>blew Beer</i>, that they
+are forced to put a double Price on every thing
+goes to Market; so that no Body will deal with
+them. Indeed, if it incenses them, that <i>Betty</i>
+won&rsquo;t buy, burn her <i>own Goods</i> and take off
+<i>theirs</i>, they must e&rsquo;en turn the Buckle behind.
+<i>Blanch</i> will be wiser, for her own sake, than
+lay Stresses on her <i>Sister</i>, from whom she gets
+more than <i>by all the World beside</i>, only to humour
+a Set of grumbling Churls, who don&rsquo;t
+know what they would be at; and so extremely
+senseless, that it&rsquo;s Matter of Wonder, their
+Oxen don&rsquo;t ride them to the Market, and sell
+them. &rsquo;Tis true, a <i>Linen-weaver</i>, one of <i>Blanch</i>&rsquo;s
+Tenants, prevailed on her lately to withdraw
+some Encouragement she had given <i>Betty</i>, and
+transfer it to a <i>Stranger</i>. But that was owing to
+bad Advice given her, by a <i>Clerk</i> she has since
+turned off, and sent a stroling among <i>Brandy-shops</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>
+and <i>Ale-houses</i>, to <i>backbite</i> his <i>Lady</i> for want
+of other Employment.</p>
+
+<p>Another Cause of <i>Blanch</i>&rsquo;s Dislike to her
+<i>Sister</i> was, a Fright she took, when she was just
+<i>delivered</i>, at some ill-looking People, who came
+from <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s Lands, and appeared under her
+Window. There&rsquo;s no doubt but <i>Blanch</i> has as
+much Courage as any genteel Lady ought to
+have, and must have been in a Fit of low Spirits
+when she, and all her Tenants from her, took
+so senseless an alarm, as to run distracted thro&rsquo;
+Fear of half a Dozen Fellows cutting all their
+Throats in one Night, who were ready to run
+through Fire and Water for Fear of being hang&rsquo;d
+themselves; yet certain it is, from this ridiculous
+Incident, and from nothing else, can be derived,
+that universal Hatred shewn her by
+<i>Blanch&rsquo;s Tenants</i>, though they have never seen,
+spoken with, or had any Dealings whatever, either
+with <i>Betty</i> or her <i>Tenants</i>. People must be
+<i>generous</i>, as well as <i>brave</i>, to forgive those that
+frighten them.</p>
+
+<p>There&rsquo;s another Cause of Dislike among<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>
+such as have Dealings with <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s Tenants who
+come on Business, or to visit her <i>Sister</i>, that they
+run in debt with them, and don&rsquo;t pay. So do
+all their Neighbours, for that matter; but they
+complain of none but <i>Betty</i>, though it is very
+well known they make ample Reprisals on her;
+and <i>one Bite</i> of theirs, is worth a hundred of
+<i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s, who are none but such as are despised
+at home, and can get neither Credit or Company
+there; for <i>Betty</i> is not yet arrived to that
+Degree of Politeness, as to court and caress
+<i>Highway-men</i> and <i>Sharpers</i>, only because <i>they
+keep good Company</i>, and are Gentlemen of <i>nice
+Honour</i>, but sincerely wishes her <i>Sister</i> to hang
+them all.</p>
+
+<p>The last I shall mention (and, to be sure, a wise
+Cause of Dislike it is) <i>Betty</i> goes once, at least,
+every Year to pay her Sister a Visit, carries all
+her Money, puts on her best Cloaths, lives
+high as long as she has a Penny left. This vexes
+her <i>Sister</i>, and many a <i>Slut</i> and <i>Flirt</i> she calls
+<i>Betty</i>, at the very time she is throwing away her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>
+Money with both Hands for the Tradesmen and
+Shoeboys to scramble up. They are both Fools;
+<i>One</i> for shewing this Contempt, and the other
+for putting herself in the Way of it.</p>
+
+<p>It is wished, but probably in vain, that the
+two <i>Sisters</i> would come to a better Understanding.
+They that have considered the true Interest of
+both, see plainly that the <i>elder</i>, and consequently
+the <i>younger</i>, must be shortly undone, if these
+Bickerings and ill Offices continue. So <i>unnatural</i>
+a Quarrel between near Relations must make
+them despised by all the <i>Neighbours</i> around, who
+are hourly taking the Advantage of it, and <i>profiting</i>
+themselves by the Hindrance the <i>Sisters</i>
+give to each other. But their Manners and Disposition
+are so different, that it&rsquo;s next to impossible
+they should ever love one another; tho&rsquo;,
+for mutual Interest, and to make that Figure in
+the Eye of the World which two <i>Ladies</i> of their
+Distinction and Fortune ought to assume, their
+Friends may agree to promote <i>jointly</i> their Interests,
+and never heed how peevish and untoward
+<i>either</i> of them may be, or pay any Regard to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+<i>fanciful Aversions</i>, and ungrounded Jealousies,
+which are always inseparable from a female
+Breast.</p>
+
+<p>Tho&rsquo; in this History I have rather copied the
+<i>chaste Brevity</i> of <i>Cornelius Nepos</i>, than the diffused
+and <i>chatty</i> Eloquence of <i>Plutarch</i>; I shall conclude,
+in Imitation of the latter, with a Description
+of the two <i>Ladies</i>, their Persons, Manners,
+and Inclinations; and, in drawing the <i>Parallel</i>,
+with Freedom represent, their Vices as well as
+<i>Vertues</i>, their Faults as well as their Perfections.</p>
+
+<p><i>Blanch</i> is by much the taller, neat, timbersome,
+and well made, a lively Look and a
+sprightly Air. <i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s Face is full out as <i>handsome</i>
+as her <i>Sister</i>&rsquo;s, tho&rsquo; not so regular, has more
+<i>variety</i> and striking Beauties, and, with equal
+<i>Dressing</i>, would appear more lovely than the
+other; but she&rsquo;s a <i>Slattern</i> in her <i>Dress</i>.</p>
+
+<p>As to their <i>Tempers</i>, <i>Pride</i> is the prevailing
+Passion of the <i>first</i>, and <i>Vanity</i> of the <i>second</i>;
+from which naturally, and unavoidably arises,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+every observable Character of their Mind and
+Manners. <i>Blanch</i>&rsquo;s Pride makes her selfish and
+reserved, contemptuous, if not rough, in her Behaviour.
+<i>Betty</i>&rsquo;s Vanity makes her <i>open</i> and communicative,
+fond of <i>shewing herself</i> on all Occasions,
+complaisant, and caressing, to a Degree of
+Flattery. As <i>Blanch</i> does not know what it is to
+have Love or Affection for any one but herself,
+so she expects it from no one, but claims a great
+deal of Respect. <i>Betty</i> doesn&rsquo;t know what Respect
+for her means, but to gain her Love and
+Liking would part with all she had. <i>Blanch</i> is
+frugal in the main, not very hospitable, and seldom
+lavish but in private Pleasures. <i>Betty</i> is
+hospitable to Prodigality, lavish to Folly, and
+thinks nothing a Pleasure that others don&rsquo;t share
+in. Hence it comes, that the first loves her Money
+above all things, the <i>second</i> less than any
+thing she has any value for at all; that one is
+anxious to <i>get</i>, the <i>other</i> in haste to <i>spend</i>. <i>Blanch</i>
+has a good Understanding, but does not <i>know
+the World</i>, and is commonly <i>choused</i> by her
+Neighbours. <i>Betty</i> has no Opportunity of <i>knowing
+the World</i>, as her <i>Sister</i> won&rsquo;t let her go<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+much abroad or converse with the <i>Neighbours</i>;
+she has but little Experience, and, to be sure,
+is not very <i>wise</i>, but is the quickest in the World
+at finding out <i>a Fool</i>. The <i>elder</i> is <i>cautious</i>, and
+hides carefully every Fault she is conscious of;
+the <i>younger</i> is not conscious of any Fault of Folly
+whatever; so they all come out in her <i>communicative
+Fits</i>, which seize her as often as she gets
+a Stranger to talk to. <i>Blanch</i> is the more censorious,
+and <i>Betty</i> the greater Liar.</p>
+
+<p>If either of the <i>Ladies</i> think the Picture not
+like, let them call to mind the Story of a famous
+Painter, who had drawn the Portrait of a young
+Man, whostood very well with himself, but didn&rsquo;t
+please him. &ldquo;You have drawn me,&rdquo;<!--Page 36: added missing end quote--> said he,
+&ldquo;exactly the <i>Reverse</i> of every thing I am.&rdquo;
+<i>If it be so</i>, replied the Painter, <i>that must be your
+Likeness</i>, and set the Picture on the Head.</p>
+
+<p class="end"><i>F&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;N&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;&nbsp;S</i>.</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Life of Betty Ireland, by Anonymous
+
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+Title: The True Life of Betty Ireland
+       With Her Birth, Education, and Adventures. Together with Some Account of Her Elder Sister Blanch of Britain. Containing Sundry Very Curious Particulars
+
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+
+
+Release Date: November 9, 2007  [eBook #23390]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE LIFE OF BETTY IRELAND***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Suzan Flanagan, and the Project
+Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
+
+
+
+Transcriber's note:
+
+   The original spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization have been
+   retained. However, long s's have been transcribed as modern s's,
+   and minor punctuation corrections have been made.
+
+   The oe ligature is represented as [oe].
+
+
+
+
+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND._
+
+[Price a _British_ Sixpence.]
+
+
+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND._
+
+WITH
+
+Her BIRTH, EDUCATION, and
+ADVENTURES.
+
+Together with
+
+Some Account of her elder Sister _BLANCH_
+of _BRITAIN_.
+
+Containing,
+
+Sundry very curious Particulars.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_LONDON_, Printed:
+
+_DUBLIN_, Reprinted for PETER WILSON, in _Dame-street_.
+MDCCLIII.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE TRUE
+
+LIFE
+
+OF
+
+_Betty IRELAND_.
+
+
+It is agreed on all Hands, that _Betty Ireland_ was a younger
+Daughter by a _second Venter_; let, at first, to run wild in the
+Woods, cloathed with Skins and fed with Acorns; till a _famous
+Hunter_ took her in his Toils, and, liking her _Countenance_, gave
+her to a Son of his, a _Lad_, to bring up. The _Girl_ was born to
+a good Estate, but ill tenanted, and run to waste. Her _Farms_
+neither _meared_ or bounded, her Rents never paid, as she had no
+_certain_ Tenants, and had little more to claim than a Pepper-corn
+Acknowledgment. She had no Relation to manage her _Demesnes_, and
+could hardly be said to be possessed of any thing.
+
+In this Condition the young _Sportsman_ found her, was fond of her
+at first, and resolved to marry her; and _happy_ had it been both
+for _him_ and _her_, if he had kept his Resolution, and performed
+the _Contract_. But he hankered after his elder Brother's _Estate_,
+and, on his Death, suddenly got the Tenants to _attorn_ to _him_,
+and basely dispossessed his _Nephew_. But instead of an _Estate_,
+he got nothing but a _Law-suit_, lived in _Broils_, and dyed a
+_Beggar_. Whereas had he quitted all Pretensions at home, married
+_Betty_ and minded her Concerns, he had soon been in a Condition
+not to envy his Brother; and, perhaps, had left a _second Family_
+little inferior in _Greatness_ to the first.
+
+This was the only Chance ever _Betty_ had to make a _separate_
+Fortune, set up for herself, and be _independent_ of her _Sister_.
+She was ever after _beholden_ to _her_ for maintaining her
+_Rights_, settling her _Affairs_, and bringing her _Tenants_ to
+Reason.
+
+Neither _Betty_ or her Sister were yet of Age, but the Younger far
+from it, and continued under such _Guardians_, as the _Elder_
+recommended, and had chosen for herself. It was natural to think
+they should chiefly be employed in ordering the Affairs of
+_Blanch_, and be less attentive to benefit the other. Accordingly,
+from time to time, they sent _Proxies_, to let Leases, keep her
+_Courts_, and _force_ Possession, where the Tenants held over.
+Little, however, was done for _Betty_, though they put her _Sister_
+to great Charges; nor did she thrive in the World to any Purpose,
+'till she came under the Care of a good _orderly Gentlewoman_, who
+was also _Guardian_ to _Blanch_, a notable _Manager_, and very
+affectionate to her _Wards_, understood their Business to a hair,
+and was never to be imposed on or _over-reached_. Every thing she
+put her hand to prospered, and every thing against her miscarried.
+
+When she first looked into _Betty_'s Affairs, she found them in a
+manner desperate; her small Revenues had been embezzled by
+_Agents_, Farms set to _insolvent_ Tenants, _double_ Leases made
+out, huge _Fines_ taken in Hand and sunk in their own Pockets. She
+was preyed upon by Vagabonds and _Outlaws_; and, to compleat her
+Misfortunes, a _Foreign Count_ fell in love with her, an odious
+Monster and _braggadocio_ Huffer. He swore bitterly no one else
+should have her, and to support his Claim, brought in his Pocket, a
+_pretended Licence_ from the _Spiritual Court_, and a Pack of
+_outlandish Goths_ along with him, to take Possession of her
+Freehold, and break down her Gates. But her _Sister_ generously
+came in to her Assistance, repelled Force by Force, and rescued her
+from a Tyrant Ravisher, built Houses for herself, and Fences for
+the Tenants, and left some of her own People with her to instruct
+them in Trades and Husbandry.
+
+She was then, it might be thought, in a Way of making herself
+respected, both by her own and her _Sister_'s Tenants, and not
+stand in need of any more Supplies from them; and if the _good
+Woman_, her guardian, had lived to bring Matters to any Kind of
+Establishment, Things had been better. But she unfortunately died,
+more, however, to her _Sister_'s Disadvantage than _hers_; for the
+_Guardian_ had chalked out a Track of Proceeding for _Betty_, which
+she could hardly miss to follow. The _Elder_, however, was
+inconsolable for the Loss of her _Guardian_, and resolved, for the
+future, to manage her Concerns by the Assistance of a _Steward_, a
+Sort of a Cousin to her _Guardian_ deceased, but no way allied to
+her, in Worth or Understanding. He minded nothing but Hunting and
+_Puppet-shews_, Feasts and Revels; and though the uncomeliest of an
+_ill-favoured Race_, spent his Lady's Money in adorning his own
+Person, instead of _fencing_ her Grounds. He was laughed at by one
+half of the Neighbours, and despised and gulled by the other. In a
+Word, he was every Way unfit for the Charge.
+
+His Son succeeded to the Place; he was a grave-looking, orderly
+young Man, main religious, and skilled in the _Customs of the
+Manor_. Both the Sisters had great Hopes their Affairs would thrive
+under his Management. _Betty_'s, indeed, went on well for a while;
+but, in the End, both of them had Cause to complain, and curse the
+Day they had bethought them of employing a _Steward_ in their
+Concerns. He was not so great a Fool as his Father; yet nothing he
+put his Hand to succeeded. He was _bubbled_ by every _Neighbour_ he
+dealt with, and choused by every _Tenant_ he trusted. His Word
+could never be relied on, as he had always some quibble to evade
+it. His Wife made him hated by the Tenants; and for a finishing
+Stroke to his undoing, and compleat the Ruin of his _Wards_, he
+pretended the _Steward_ had a Right to hold Courts without
+_Juries_, and by his own Authority levy Money for _Repairs_. The
+Tenants would not endure this Invasion on their Rights, but stoutly
+opposed it; and, after a hard Struggle, got the better, turned him
+out of the _Stewardship_, and some of them finding him one Day at a
+_why-not_, tied him to a Rope, and hanged him in a Frolick.
+
+The Office of a _Steward_ was now abolished for a Time, and the
+elder _Sister_ resolved to take her Affairs entirely into her _own
+Hands_, and have neither _Steward_ or _Guardian_ for the future.
+The Condition, indeed, of _both_ was deplorable. There had been
+nothing during the _late Quarrel_, but Riot and Plunder, Rents
+unpaid, and Soldiers quartered at Discretion; so that, in order to
+retrieve their Affairs, it seemed necessary to put things on a _new
+Footing_, and trust none but themselves to manage them. But
+whatever they intended mattered but little.
+
+Among the Soldiers quartered on them was a bustling Knave, who from
+a Corporal had come to be a Captain. He was bold as a Lion, and
+_crafty_ as a Fox. He had cajoled his Soldiers to stand by him; and
+pretending _Compassion_ for the Sisters, offered, or rather forced
+himself, to be their _Guardian_. They only complied because they
+could not help it; and he took more _rule_ over them, than ever
+_Steward_ or _Guardian_ had done before him.
+
+He seemed, indeed, to mend Matters in the Beginning, but, in
+reality, did _unrepairable_ Damage to _Blanch_, though considerable
+Services to _Betty_. The Neighbours all around thought they were
+thriving apace, and began to envy their Greatness. The Reason of
+which was, that he always took care to have the _Girls_ well
+dressed, especially when they went a _visiting_, and sent Word
+before-hand (for he was d----d proud) that all the World should
+_Cap_ to them as they passed along. He stinted them in every thing
+else, but _spent_ all he could _rap_ and _run_ to make them _fine_.
+_Betty_ was _bashful_, and kept pretty much at home; but when
+_Blanch_ went _abroad_, she made a _flaming_ Appearance, _held_ up
+her Head among the _Highest_, and _insulted_ the _Proudest_ with
+her _Braveries_.
+
+But all the while Things were but _uncomfortable_ at home, though
+she made such a _tearing Figure_ when abroad. Nothing to be had for
+Farms, by reason the Soldiers put _in_ and _out_ as they pleased.
+No _Leets_ or _Manor Courts_ were minded. No _taxing_ for _Repairs_
+and _Bounds_, but the Soldiers _taxed_ for _Contingencies_ as much
+Money as they could hear any one had. So that the _Tenants_ found
+themselves in a worse _Pickle_ than ever they had been under the
+Management of a _Steward_. They longed for Courts and _Inquests_,
+and to have every thing set on the old Bottom again.
+
+They heard of a _poor Boy_, a Son of the late _Steward_'s, who had
+run away from the _Lands_ the Time his Father was hanged, and was
+now grown up to Years of Discretion. As he had _bit_ a good while
+on the Bridle, they thought he might be tamed, more careful than
+his _Father_, and do them more Justice and Kindness. They brought
+him home in a _Hurry_; and, as it's natural to run from one Extreme
+to another, were sure they were all _made_ when they got him into
+the _Stewardship_.
+
+It must be owned, he was a pleasant, good-humoured Fellow as ever
+broke Bread, civilly behaved, and by no means wanted Capacity for
+the Business. But he was _idle_ to a Degree, followed W----ng and
+Horse-racing; and provided he could borrow Money enough from the
+_Tenants_, or get _Presents_ from the _Neighbours_, to treat his
+Wenches and buy them _Top-knots_, never heeded how _Accounts_ were
+settled, how he held the _Courts_, or how he paid the Servants.
+Farm-houses went to decay, and Strangers forestalled the Markets.
+Few People, however, could find in their Heart to hate him. They
+had a Love for him, though he was daily undoing them: For it was
+always _their Humour_ to like a _boon Companion_; and instead of
+crossing his Prodigality, they followed his Example, wh----ed it
+away from the highest to the lowest, revelled and caroused for
+_dear Blood_, and were never better pleased than when the last
+Penny was a going. It became a _Fashion_ to be Bankrupt; to be
+Rich, was to lose all Credit; and to be Just, was the Mark of a
+Scoundrel.
+
+But though the _elder Sister_ was well-nigh undone by him, he did a
+good Turn by _Betty_, and sent one of his _Cousins_ to take care of
+her Concerns, who had a good Farm of his own under her, and
+was well-beloved over the whole Estate. He kept _Leet_ and
+_Court-Baron_, presented Vagabonds at the Sessions, and gave
+Rewards for apprehending _Out-laws_. He set the Tenants to Work,
+_lived constantly among them_, and looked himself into every thing.
+_Betty_ began to thrive, and was less expensive to her _Sister_,
+who had wasted huge Sums to keep her Head above Water. She stuck to
+Business, and prospered mainly, 'till the _Steward_'s Brother got
+himself into the Place, who played H----ll with every thing, and
+brought the two Sisters to the Brink of Ruin.
+
+He was rash, senseless, obstinate, and ill-minded; none of the
+Neighbours would _deal_ with him, or the _Tenants_ trust him, as
+there was no believing one Word he said, or promise that he made;
+for he had taken an Oath when he was young never to speak Truth. He
+began his Vagaries by putting the _Curate_ in the _Stocks_, for
+refusing to teach a new _Catechism_ of his _own Invention_. He
+entered into a Plot to secure the _Elder Sister_ in the House of
+Correction, and make her do Penance in the Church, under Pretence
+of Carnal Conversation. He agreed to sell _Betty_ to a Cousin of
+his, a great Lord in the Neighbourhood, who longed to have her for
+a Waiting-woman to his Wife. So the _Tenants_ made short Work with
+him, rose one and all, and sent him a-packing to his Cousin, where
+he was fain to be a Serving-man, since he could not send _Betty_ to
+be a Serving-maid.
+
+Both the _Sisters_ took an Oath never more to have a _Steward_
+again, and to abolish the very Name from among them, with a reserve
+to his Daughters, who had married abroad, and were good sort of
+Women, in their Way.
+
+Here it was that _both the Sisters_ had their Affairs put on a sure
+and lasting Footing. The Rights of the _Tenants_ were narrowly
+examined, and all pretended Powers of the Steward abolished by a
+Rule on the _Court Manor_ Books. There was, indeed, some Difficulty
+in bringing it about, and a power of Money laid out on the
+Occasion. But it was well bestowed had it been twice as much.
+
+There was a _Stripling_ among the neighbouring _Fens_, who had
+married a Daughter of the _Steward_'s, and had got the best Estate
+there by the Diligence of his _Ancestors_, who were the principal
+_Engineers_ in _draining_ and _banking_ the Country. They had often
+borrowed Money from _Blanch_ to carry on the Work, to _stem_ the
+Water when the _Fen-men_ were in despair, and prevailed on her to
+send a strong _Posse_ of her Tenants to keep off some malicious
+Neighbours, who would ever and anon be _boring_ Holes in the
+_Dikes_, and endangered the Overflowing of all the Land they had
+gained. If ever these _wretched People_ shewed any thing that
+looked like _Gratitude_, it was to the Family of their _Engineers_;
+and this young Man improved it to his own Advantage, and that of
+_Blanch_, whom he acknowledged the Preserver of the _Fen-men_, who
+deserved Preservation on no other Account than to make them
+_Pack-horses_ and _Carriers_. They were, indeed, a middle Species
+between Men and Brutes, and chiefly compounded of the latter. But
+this young _Adventurer_ had got the Ascendant over them, and, as we
+ordinarily say of vicious Horses, had made the D----l come out of
+them. He _ringed_ them by the Nose, and _bled_ them with the
+_Spur_, and so throughly _broke_ them (for he was a special
+Horseman) that they never kicked or plunged when he was _in the
+Saddle_; but, as the Nature of Beasts is, became the fonder of him
+the rougher he handled them.
+
+When he understood that _Blanch_ and her _Sister_ were so hampered
+and _Tyrannically_ treated by the _Steward_, he came to their
+Assistance, supplied them with Money, which he raised from the
+_Fen-men_, and fairly set them free from his Oppression and Rapine,
+reversed his _Grants_, cancelled his sham Leases, restored
+Possessions, _Leets_ and _Manor-Courts_, made up _Fences_ for the
+Tenants, and so strongly secured their _Copyholds_, that there is
+no likelihood they will ever be _ousted_ or much _disturbed_ again.
+And, to crown all the Services he had done the two Sisters,
+he _recommended_ them, before he parted, to the Care of a
+_neighbouring Lord_, a Cousin of his own, and a _right honest Man_,
+who proved a Father to _them_ and their People, defended their
+_Rights_, and secured their _Properties_.
+
+And yet _Blanch_ could never rightly like the _Fen-man_, as she
+called him, though he had done so much for her. She could not
+comport herself with his Manners and his Humour, hated the Servants
+he brought with him, complained they were too costly to her, though
+she kept them sparingly, and even quarrelled (so exceptious are
+Women) to the Cut of their Cloaths, and the Colour of their
+_Liveries_.
+
+But _Betty Ireland_ had more Gratitude than her _Sister_, adored
+him while he stayed with her, and to this Day _remembers_ him as
+her _great Deliverer_, the Protector of her Life, and the Founder
+of her Fortune.
+
+She, indeed, had double Obligations, as her Condition was more
+helpless than her _Sister_'s, and she had more severely felt the
+_Tyranny_ of the _Steward_, who, because she could not so readily
+complain of him, had first _stripped_ her of all she had, and then
+sold her to Bondage. But both _Sisters_ ought surely to reflect,
+that all the Happiness, and all the Security they have since
+enjoyed, has been owing to the _Friendships_ he procured them, when
+he put them under the Protection of _his Cousins_; and that he has
+effectually banished the _Stewards_ thereby, who would doubtless
+otherwise be meddling with their Affairs, and use them worse than
+ever they did before, as coming _in without Leave_, they would act
+without Controul.
+
+But maugre all these Considerations, _Blanch_ was glad when he left
+her, and ready to leap out of her Skin for joy. She thought of
+nothing but Diversions, spent her _Time_ and _Money_ in _visiting_
+and _dressing_, ransacked the Globe to set off her Person, and, it
+must be owned, she never looked handsomer in her Life. Wherever she
+went, she was adored as an Angel, surrounded by admiring Throngs,
+and Thousands hanging on her _Look_.
+
+But all this was empty Pageantry and too expensive Glory. She ran
+herself in Debt to uphold this Appearance, mortgaged her _Estate_,
+and bartered her _Stock_, for the vain Applause of flattering
+Knaves, and scoundrel _Tradesmen_. It was Time to pull in, and keep
+a Hank in the Hand. She saw her Folly, and doffed her _Gear_. It
+was better _go plain_ than run in Debt for Finery; and enough she
+had to do to pay the Debts she had contracted in her _Fit of_
+Vanity.
+
+_Betty_ all the while was minding Business at home, and her Affairs
+prospered amain. Her _Tenants_ became industrious, and her _Estate_
+improved; yet she never thought herself sufficiently _secure_ till
+she got under the new _Protection_ her _Deliverer_ had provided.
+Her Situation is particular. She has a strange Mixture of People on
+her Estate, who are always at Daggers drawing with one another, and
+a mighty Hindrance to her Business. They are _Whites_, _Blacks_,
+and _Black_ and _White_. The _Whites_ only are allowed to be
+_Land-holders_; but the _last_, by hiding half the Face when they
+converse with her, pass for _Whites_, and make good their _Titles_.
+The first are dreadfully maligned by the _Blacks_, who are
+unhappily the more numerous, _lay old Claims_ to her _Lands_, and
+are ever watching for an Opportunity to make a _Riot_, and take
+forcible Possession. 'Till now they were too much favoured by her
+_Sister_, which checked the Industry of her Farmers.
+
+But when they found they had nothing to fear, either at home or
+abroad, they began in earnest to improve _their Concerns_, as they
+were sure they were working for themselves, and in no Danger of
+being dispossessed, by Virtue of _chimerical_ Claims, and
+_Antediluvian Proprietors_.
+
+The _Blacks_, indeed, immediately made a _Riot_ on this new
+Settlement, but could not get Possession; and, lately, a _young
+Jackanapes_ pretended a _Right_ to be _Steward_ to _both Sisters_,
+by Virtue of a _Patent_ he had got from the last _Steward_, as if
+he had a Right to dispose of a _Place_ he had been turned out of
+himself. He came on the Lands, however, with a _bloody-minded_ Crew
+of _skirtless_ Vagabonds, drove off the Cattle, robbed the
+_Hen-roosts_, and _swaggered_ at so _unmerciful_ a Rate, that
+_Blanch_ was frightened out of her Senses, and was fain to _send_
+for a Dram of _Gin_ to restore her Spirits. But if she was
+frightened, her _Guardian_ was not, and had a _Month's Mind_ to
+find out the _Varlet_ in Person, and tread him under his Feet.
+But as he could not leave the _Hall-house_ where the _Court
+was sitting_, he sent a _Lad_ of his own to take Account of him,
+who did the _Business tightly_. He was a _well-mettled Blade_,
+and _Steel_ to the _Back_. He came up with him at the Corner
+of a Farmer's Yard, where he gave him and his _Desperados_ a
+wofull Drubbing, kicked him i'the A----e, _soused_ him in the
+_Horse-pond_, which he swam over to save his Bacon, and looked so
+miserably scared in his Passage, that it's sure he'll never _try
+the Ford_ again.
+
+For a good while before this Alarm happened (which proved nothing
+but a _Bugbear_) both the _Sisters_ had a fair Opportunity of
+minding their Concerns, and getting above the World. _Blanch_ might
+have paid her Debts, and had Money to the fore; but it was ever her
+Misfortune to be _ill-served_ by almost all she employed. Never,
+sure, had Lady so _unhandy_ a Pack about her, and, indeed, it was
+impossible it could well be otherwise; for she did not chuse her
+_Servants_ because they were _fit_ for this, or that _Office_, but
+because they asked, and would have it, or be horribly out of
+Humour else, would make a Noise and _Uproar_ at every _Court-Leet_,
+terrify the _Tenants_ at every _Ale-house_, with strange Stories of
+Designs on their _Copy-holds_, and wicked _Plots_ just ready to
+begin; 'till they turned their Heads, and set them madding. So that
+the poor Lady was fain to _take them in_, to keep Peace at Home,
+and to pay them Wages for not doing her Business. The Consequence
+of which was, she had _Clerks_ could neither write or read; Book,
+and Cash-keepers, that could not _count_ or cast up, or ever heard
+of a _Ballance_ in their Lives. And so ridiculous was her
+Compliance in this Point, that she had once a Lady to curry her
+Horse, and a _Fishmonger_ for a _Grass Bailiff_.
+
+'Tis true, she would often change her Servants, but not a _Barrel
+the better Herring_. If she got one, by chance, knew any thing of
+his Business, the _rest_ never left boddering her 'till they had
+him out. It should never be said they demeaned themselves so much
+as to serve with one, who would spoil every thing by his
+_Rashness_, and disgrace the Service by his _Ignorance_. Now, by
+_Rashness_ they meant _resenting Insults_ and _Injuries_ done their
+Lady; and by _Ignorance_, not knowing how to _buy_ and _sell_, and
+live by the _Loss_. So that, all Things considered, it were a
+Marvel her Affairs should be in better Plight than they are, or her
+Debts be paid with more Ease and Expedition.
+
+_Betty_, in the mean time, is come to an opulent Fortune, has her
+Rents well paid, and her Farms daily improving, and would improve
+ten times more, if her _Sister_ could see her own Advantage so far,
+as to give her that Encouragement she is daily giving to
+_Strangers_, who give her nothing in Return but their Envy and
+Ill-will. But as it is, _Betty_'s in a good Way, and makes the most
+of a bad Market. And since she must not work for her _Sister_, she
+works for herself.
+
+It had been a Custom of hers to buy every thing she wanted from her
+_Sister's Tenants_ and _Tradesmen_, though they used her
+abominably, and put off upon her the worst Goods they had. If the
+Farmer had damaged Hops, he sold them to _Betty Ireland_; if his
+Malt was blinked, away it went to her; and the _Pothecary_ thought
+his decayed Drugs good enough for _Betty_, and instead of burning
+them, laid them by for her, as tho' she were not a Christian, or
+had the same Inside as her Sister.
+
+_Betty_ could not help this contemptuous Treatment, as she had
+nothing she wanted at Home, by reason of her Laziness, though all
+Materials in abundance were at hand. 'Tis incredible to relate,
+but, at the Time I am speaking of, certain Fact, on her whole
+Estate there was not one to be found could make a Buckle for her
+Shoe, or a Pin to her Sleeve; a Pot, a Spit, or any Utensil to cook
+her Victuals, might as well be found among the _Tartars_ as with
+her. She took every thing from her _Sister_ at what Price she
+pleased, unsight unseen, and bought the _Pig in the Poke_.
+Necessity roused her from Stupidity and Sloth, she encouraged her
+Tenants to apply to Trades, assured them of a ready Market, and
+rewarded those that did their Work the best; and, at present, has
+every thing within herself. And tho' it must be owned a very
+unreasonable, and _not to be endured_ Instance of her Impudence,
+she proposes to dress in her own Manufactures, and does not mean
+to trouble her _Sister_ any longer for _cast Cloaths_ and
+_unmerchantable_ commodities. But in every other Respect, she
+desires to keep up a good Correspondence with her, and is daily
+doing every thing in her Power, to gain her Favour, and procure her
+Regards. Whatever she can spare from her ordinary Expences, she, in
+some Shape or other, makes a Present of to her _Sister_, in
+Acknowledgement for Services done, and Kindnesses receiv'd in her
+_Minority_. Has _Blanch_ a Favourite whom she cannot readily
+provide for, a poor Relation on hand, or Retainer to the Family, a
+broken Projector, or cast Serving-man; she has no more to do but
+acquaint _Betty_ with it, who quickly puts him on a _creditable
+Pension_, and never refuses, though she run herself in Debt by it.
+Is _Blanch_ engaged in a Brangle with her _Tenants_, (who, by the
+way, are cursedly litigious) and hard put to it for Hands to do
+her Business, _Betty_ makes an Offer of sending her People to help
+her, and maintaining them abroad at her own Charges. Does a Tenant
+of _Blanch_ come to favour her with a Visit, she receives him with
+Hospitality and Respect, and would sacrifice her Fortune to make
+his Entertainment agreeable.
+
+If all this Complaisance should fail of its Effect, and not so
+succeed as to keep _Blanch_ in good Humour, 'tis easy to say where
+the Fault must lie, and from what Causes her Discontents arise.
+
+In the first Place, it has ever been the Fate of her _Domesticks_
+to be invincibly hated by her _Tenants_ without Difference
+or Distinction, (for, to say Truth, they have no Head for
+_Distingo_'s:) There is but one Thing in the World they hate more,
+and that is _Betty Ireland_. Now, the _Servants_ bear hard on
+_Betty_, to curry Favour with her Sister's _Tenants_, who would go
+half Way to the D----l to have _Betty_ d----d, are for ever cursing
+her, and laying all their Misfortunes at her Door. If the
+_Clothier_ loses his Business, or has his Goods on Hand, 'tis _all
+'long_ of _Betty_: Wheat bears no Price, for _Betty_ has glutted
+the Market. Whereas, in Fact, they never keep the same Markets. But
+they forget, they are all so idle and debauched, such gobling and
+drinking Rascals, and so expensive in _blew Beer_, that they are
+forced to put a double Price on every thing goes to Market; so that
+no Body will deal with them. Indeed, if it incenses them, that
+_Betty_ won't buy, burn her _own Goods_ and take off _theirs_, they
+must e'en turn the Buckle behind. _Blanch_ will be wiser, for her
+own sake, than lay Stresses on her _Sister_, from whom she gets
+more than _by all the World beside_, only to humour a Set of
+grumbling Churls, who don't know what they would be at; and so
+extremely senseless, that it's Matter of Wonder, their Oxen
+don't ride them to the Market, and sell them. 'Tis true, a
+_Linen-weaver_, one of _Blanch_'s Tenants, prevailed on her lately
+to withdraw some Encouragement she had given _Betty_, and transfer
+it to a _Stranger_. But that was owing to bad Advice given her, by
+a _Clerk_ she has since turned off, and sent a stroling among
+_Brandy-shops_ and _Ale-houses_, to _backbite_ his _Lady_ for want
+of other Employment.
+
+Another Cause of _Blanch_'s Dislike to her _Sister_ was, a Fright
+she took, when she was just _delivered_, at some ill-looking
+People, who came from _Betty_'s Lands, and appeared under her
+Window. There's no doubt but _Blanch_ has as much Courage as any
+genteel Lady ought to have, and must have been in a Fit of low
+Spirits when she, and all her Tenants from her, took so senseless
+an alarm, as to run distracted thro' Fear of half a Dozen Fellows
+cutting all their Throats in one Night, who were ready to run
+through Fire and Water for Fear of being hang'd themselves; yet
+certain it is, from this ridiculous Incident, and from nothing
+else, can be derived, that universal Hatred shewn her by _Blanch's
+Tenants_, though they have never seen, spoken with, or had any
+Dealings whatever, either with _Betty_ or her _Tenants_. People
+must be _generous_, as well as _brave_, to forgive those that
+frighten them.
+
+There's another Cause of Dislike among such as have Dealings with
+_Betty_'s Tenants who come on Business, or to visit her _Sister_,
+that they run in debt with them, and don't pay. So do all their
+Neighbours, for that matter; but they complain of none but _Betty_,
+though it is very well known they make ample Reprisals on her; and
+_one Bite_ of theirs, is worth a hundred of _Betty_'s, who are none
+but such as are despised at home, and can get neither Credit or
+Company there; for _Betty_ is not yet arrived to that Degree of
+Politeness, as to court and caress _Highway-men_ and _Sharpers_,
+only because _they keep good Company_, and are Gentlemen of _nice
+Honour_, but sincerely wishes her _Sister_ to hang them all.
+
+The last I shall mention (and, to be sure, a wise Cause of Dislike
+it is) _Betty_ goes once, at least, every Year to pay her Sister a
+Visit, carries all her Money, puts on her best Cloaths, lives high
+as long as she has a Penny left. This vexes her _Sister_, and many
+a _Slut_ and _Flirt_ she calls _Betty_, at the very time she is
+throwing away her Money with both Hands for the Tradesmen and
+Shoeboys to scramble up. They are both Fools; _One_ for shewing
+this Contempt, and the other for putting herself in the Way of it.
+
+It is wished, but probably in vain, that the two _Sisters_ would
+come to a better Understanding. They that have considered the true
+Interest of both, see plainly that the _elder_, and consequently
+the _younger_, must be shortly undone, if these Bickerings and ill
+Offices continue. So _unnatural_ a Quarrel between near Relations
+must make them despised by all the _Neighbours_ around, who are
+hourly taking the Advantage of it, and _profiting_ themselves by
+the Hindrance the _Sisters_ give to each other. But their Manners
+and Disposition are so different, that it's next to impossible they
+should ever love one another; tho', for mutual Interest, and to
+make that Figure in the Eye of the World which two _Ladies_ of
+their Distinction and Fortune ought to assume, their Friends may
+agree to promote _jointly_ their Interests, and never heed how
+peevish and untoward _either_ of them may be, or pay any Regard to
+the _fanciful Aversions_, and ungrounded Jealousies, which are
+always inseparable from a female Breast.
+
+Tho' in this History I have rather copied the _chaste Brevity_ of
+_Cornelius Nepos_, than the diffused and _chatty_ Eloquence of
+_Plutarch_; I shall conclude, in Imitation of the latter, with a
+Description of the two _Ladies_, their Persons, Manners, and
+Inclinations; and, in drawing the _Parallel_, with Freedom
+represent, their Vices as well as _Vertues_, their Faults as well
+as their Perfections.
+
+_Blanch_ is by much the taller, neat, timbersome, and well made, a
+lively Look and a sprightly Air. _Betty_'s Face is full out as
+_handsome_ as her _Sister_'s, tho' not so regular, has more
+_variety_ and striking Beauties, and, with equal _Dressing_, would
+appear more lovely than the other; but she's a _Slattern_ in her
+_Dress_.
+
+As to their _Tempers_, _Pride_ is the prevailing Passion of the
+_first_, and _Vanity_ of the _second_; from which naturally, and
+unavoidably arises, every observable Character of their Mind and
+Manners. _Blanch_'s Pride makes her selfish and reserved,
+contemptuous, if not rough, in her Behaviour. _Betty_'s Vanity
+makes her _open_ and communicative, fond of _shewing herself_ on
+all Occasions, complaisant, and caressing, to a Degree of Flattery.
+As _Blanch_ does not know what it is to have Love or Affection for
+any one but herself, so she expects it from no one, but claims a
+great deal of Respect. _Betty_ doesn't know what Respect for her
+means, but to gain her Love and Liking would part with all she had.
+_Blanch_ is frugal in the main, not very hospitable, and seldom
+lavish but in private Pleasures. _Betty_ is hospitable to
+Prodigality, lavish to Folly, and thinks nothing a Pleasure that
+others don't share in. Hence it comes, that the first loves her
+Money above all things, the _second_ less than any thing she has
+any value for at all; that one is anxious to _get_, the _other_ in
+haste to _spend_. _Blanch_ has a good Understanding, but does not
+_know the World_, and is commonly _choused_ by her Neighbours.
+_Betty_ has no Opportunity of _knowing the World_, as her _Sister_
+won't let her go much abroad or converse with the _Neighbours_; she
+has but little Experience, and, to be sure, is not very _wise_, but
+is the quickest in the World at finding out _a Fool_. The _elder_
+is _cautious_, and hides carefully every Fault she is conscious of;
+the _younger_ is not conscious of any Fault of Folly whatever; so
+they all come out in her _communicative Fits_, which seize her as
+often as she gets a Stranger to talk to. _Blanch_ is the more
+censorious, and _Betty_ the greater Liar.
+
+If either of the _Ladies_ think the Picture not like, let them call
+to mind the Story of a famous Painter, who had drawn the Portrait
+of a young Man, whostood very well with himself, but didn't please
+him. "You have drawn me," said he, "exactly the _Reverse_ of every
+thing I am." _If it be so_, replied the Painter, _that must be your
+Likeness_, and set the Picture on the Head.
+
+_FINIS._
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