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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela
+Andrews, by Conny Keyber
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+Title: An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
+
+Author: Conny Keyber
+
+Release Date: January 14, 2010 [EBook #30962]
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+Language: English
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+  AN
+  APOLOGY
+  FOR THE
+  LIFE
+  OF
+  Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+
+  (Price One Shilling and Six-Pence)
+
+
+
+
+  AN
+  APOLOGY
+  FOR THE
+  LIFE
+  OF
+  Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+
+In which, the many notorious FALSHOODS and MISREPRSENTATIONS of a
+Book called
+
+  _PAMELA_,
+
+Are exposed and refuted; and all the matchless ARTS of that young
+Politician, set in a true and just Light.
+
+  Together with
+
+A full Account of all that passed between her and Parson _Arthur
+Williams_; whose Character is represented in a manner something
+different from that which he bears in _PAMELA_. The whole being exact
+Copies of authentick Papers delivered to the Editor.
+
+  Necessary to be had in all FAMILIES.
+
+  By Mr. _CONNY KEYBER_.
+
+  _LONDON_:
+
+  Printed for A. Dodd, at the _Peacock_, without _Temple-bar_.
+  M. DCC. XLI.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+To Miss _Fanny_, _&c._
+
+
+  MADAM,
+
+It will be naturally expected, that when I write the Life of
+_Shamela_, I should dedicate it to some young Lady, whose Wit and
+Beauty might be the proper Subject of a Comparison with the Heroine
+of my Piece. This, those, who see I have done it in prefixing your
+Name to my Work, will much more confirmedly expect me to do; and,
+indeed, your Character would enable me to run some Length into a
+Parallel, tho' you, nor any one else, are at all like the matchless
+_Shamela_.
+
+You see, Madam, I have some Value for your Good-nature, when in a
+Dedication, which is properly a Panegyrick, I speak against, not for
+you; but I remember it is a Life which I am presenting you, and why
+should I expose my Veracity to any Hazard in the Front of the Work,
+considering what I have done in the Body. Indeed, I wish it was
+possible to write a Dedication, and get any thing by it, without one
+Word of Flattery; but since it is not, come on, and I hope to shew my
+Delicacy at least in the Compliments I intend to pay you.
+
+_First_, then, Madam, I must tell the World, that you have tickled up
+and brightned many Strokes in this Work by your Pencil.
+
+_Secondly_, You have intimately conversed with me, one of the
+greatest Wits and Scholars of my Age.
+
+_Thirdly_, You keep very good Hours, and frequently spend an useful
+Day before others begin to enjoy it. This I will take my Oath on; for
+I am admitted to your Presence in a Morning before other People's
+Servants are up; when I have constantly found you reading in good
+Books; and if ever I have drawn you upon me, I have always felt you
+very heavy.
+
+_Fourthly_, You have a Virtue which enables you to rise early and
+study hard, and that is, forbearing to over-eat yourself, and this in
+spite of all the luscious Temptations of Puddings and Custards,
+exciting the Brute (as Dr. _Woodward_ calls it) to rebel. This is a
+Virtue which I can greatly admire, though I much question whether I
+could imitate it.
+
+_Fifthly_, A Circumstance greatly to your Honour, that by means of
+your extraordinary Merit and Beauty; you was carried into the
+Ball-Room at the _Bath_, by the discerning Mr. _Nash_; before the Age
+that other young Ladies generally arrived at that Honour, and while
+your Mamma herself existed in her perfect Bloom. Here you was
+observed in Dancing to balance your Body exactly, and to weigh every
+Motion with the exact and equal Measure of Time and Tune; and though
+you sometimes made a false Step, by leaning too much to one Side; yet
+every body said you would one time or other, dance perfectly well,
+and uprightly.
+
+_Sixthly_, I cannot forbear mentioning those pretty little Sonnets,
+and sprightly Compositions, which though they came from you with so
+much Ease, might be mentioned to the Praise of a great or grave
+Character.
+
+And now, Madam, I have done with you; it only remains to pay my
+Acknowledgments to an Author, whose Stile I have exactly followed in
+this Life, it being the properest for Biography. The Reader, I
+believe, easily guesses, I mean _Euclid's Elements_; it was _Euclid_
+who taught me to write. It is you, Madam, who pay me for Writing.
+Therefore I am to both,
+
+  _A most Obedient, and_
+
+  _obliged humble Servant_,
+
+  Conny Keyber.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  LETTERS
+  TO THE
+  EDITOR.
+
+
+The EDITOR to _Himself_.
+
+  _Dear SIR_,
+
+However you came by the excellent _Shamela_, out with it, without
+Fear or Favour, Dedication and all; believe me, it will go through
+many Editions, be translated into all Languages, read in all Nations
+and Ages, and to say a bold Word, it will do more good than the
+_C----y_ have done harm in the World,
+
+  _I am, Sir,_
+
+  _Sincerely your Well-wisher_,
+
+  Yourself.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+JOHN PUFF, _Esq; to the_ EDITOR.
+
+  _SIR_,
+
+I have read your _Shamela_ through and through, and a most inimitable
+Performance it is. Who is he, what is he that could write so
+excellent a Book? he must be doubtless most agreeable to the Age, and
+to _his Honour_ himself; for he is able to draw every thing to
+Perfection but Virtue. Whoever the Author be, he hath one of the
+worst and most fashionable Hearts in the World, and I would recommend
+to him, in his next Performance, to undertake the Life of _his
+Honour_. For he who drew the Character of Parson _Williams_, is equal
+to the Task; nay he seems to have little more to do than to pull off
+the Parson's Gown, and _that_ which makes him so agreeable to
+_Shamela_, and the Cap will fit.
+
+  _I am, Sir,_
+
+  _Your humble Servant_,
+
+  JOHN PUFF.
+
+_Note_, Reader, several other COMMENDATORY LETTERS and COPIES OF
+VERSES will be prepared against the NEXT EDITION.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+  AN
+  APOLOGY
+  For the LIFE of
+  Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+
+_Parson_ TICKLETEXT _to Parson_ OLIVER.
+
+  _Rev. SIR_,
+
+Herewith I transmit you a Copy of sweet, dear, pretty _Pamela_, a
+little Book which this Winter hath produced, of which, I make no
+doubt, you have already heard mention from some of your Neighbouring
+Clergy; for we have made it our common Business here, not only to cry
+it up, but to preach it up likewise: The Pulpit, as well as the
+Coffee-house, hath resounded with its Praise, and it is expected
+shortly, that his L--p will recommend it in a ---- Letter to our
+whole Body.
+
+And this Example, I am confident, will be imitated by all our Cloth
+in the Country: For besides speaking well of a Brother, in the
+Character of the Reverend Mr. _Williams_, the useful and truly
+religious Doctrine of _Grace_ is every where inculcated.
+
+This Book is the "SOUL of _Religion_, Good-Breeding, Discretion,
+Good-Nature, Wit, Fancy, Fine Thought, and Morality. There is an
+Ease, a natural Air, a dignified Simplicity, and MEASURED FULLNESS in
+it, that RESEMBLING LIFE, OUT-GLOWS IT. The Author hath reconciled
+the _pleasing_ to the _proper_; the Thought is every where exactly
+cloathed by the Expression; and becomes its Dress as _roundly_ and as
+close as _Pamela_ her Country Habit; or _as she doth her no Habit_,
+when modest Beauty seeks to hide itself, by casting off the Pride of
+Ornament, and displays itself without any Covering;" which it
+frequently doth in this admirable Work, and presents Images to the
+Reader, which the coldest Zealot cannot read without Emotion.
+
+For my own Part (and, I believe, I may say the same of all the Clergy
+of my Acquaintance) "I have done nothing but read it to others, and
+hear others again read it to me, ever since it came into my Hands;
+and I find I am like to do nothing else, for I know not how long yet
+to come: because if I lay the Book down _it comes after me_. When it
+has dwelt all Day long upon the Ear, it takes Possession all Night of
+the Fancy. It hath Witchcraft in every Page of it.----Oh! I feel an
+Emotion even while I am relating this: Methinks I see _Pamela_ at
+this Instant, with all the Pride of Ornament cast off.
+
+"Little Book, charming _Pamela_, get thee gone; face the World, in
+which thou wilt find nothing like thyself." Happy would it be for
+Mankind, if all other Books were burnt, that we might do nothing but
+read thee all Day, and dream of thee all Night. Thou alone art
+sufficient to teach us as much Morality as we want. Dost thou not
+teach us to pray, to sing Psalms, and to honour the Clergy? Are not
+these the whole Duty of Man? Forgive me, O Author of _Pamela_,
+mentioning the Name of a Book so unequal to thine: But, now I think
+of it, who is the Author, where is he, what is he, that hath hitherto
+been able to hide such an encircling, all-mastering Spirit, "he
+possesses every Quality that Art could have charm'd by: yet hath lent
+it to and concealed it in Nature. The Comprehensiveness of his
+Imagination must be truly prodigious! It has stretched out this
+diminutive mere Grain of Mustard-seed (a poor Girl's little, _&c._)
+into a Resemblance of that Heaven, which the best of good Books has
+compared it to."
+
+To be short, this Book will live to the Age of the Patriarchs, and
+like them will carry on the good Work many hundreds of Years hence,
+among our Posterity, who will not HESITATE their Esteem with
+Restraint. If the _Romans_ granted Exemptions to Men who begat a
+_few_ Children for the Republick, what Distinction (if Policy and we
+should ever be reconciled) should we find to reward this Father of
+Millions, which are to owe Formation to the future Effect of his
+Influence.----I feel another Emotion.
+
+As soon as you have read this yourself five or six Times over (which
+may possibly happen within a Week) I desire you would give it to my
+little God-Daughter, as a Present from me. This being the only
+Education we intend henceforth to give our Daughters. And pray let
+your Servant-Maids read it over, or read it to them. Both your self
+and the neighbouring Clergy, will supply yourselves for the Pulpit
+from the Book-sellers, as soon as the fourth Edition is published. I
+am,
+
+  _Sir,_
+
+  _Your most humble Servant_,
+
+  THO. TICKLETEXT.
+
+
+_Parson_ OLIVER _to Parson_ TICKLETEXT.
+
+  _Rev. SIR_,
+
+I Received the Favour of yours with the inclosed Book, and really
+must own myself sorry, to see the Report I have heard of an
+epidemical Phrenzy now raging in Town, confirmed in the Person of my
+Friend.
+
+If I had not known your Hand, I should, from the Sentiments and Stile
+of the Letter, have imagined it to have come from the Author of the
+famous Apology, which was sent me last Summer; and on my reading the
+remarkable Paragraph of _measured Fulness, that resembling Life
+out-glows it_, to a young Baronet, he cry'd out, _C----ly C----b--r_
+by G----. But I have since observed, that this, as well as many other
+Expressions in your Letter, was borrowed from those remarkable
+Epistles, which the Author, or the Editor hath prefix'd to the second
+Edition which you send me of his Book.
+
+Is it possible that you or any of your Function can be in earnest, or
+think the Cause of Religion, or Morality, can want such slender
+Support? God forbid they should. As for Honour to the Clergy, I am
+sorry to see them so solicitous about it; for if worldly Honour be
+meant, it is what their Predecessors in the pure and primitive Age,
+never had or sought. Indeed the secure Satisfaction of a good
+Conscience, the Approbation of the Wise and Good, (which, never were
+or will be the Generality of Mankind) and the extatick Pleasure of
+contemplating, that their Ways are acceptable to the Great Creator of
+the Universe, will always attend those, who really deserve these
+Blessings: But for worldly Honours, they are often the Purchase of
+Force and Fraud, we sometimes see them in an eminent Degree possessed
+by Men, who are notorious for Luxury, Pride, Cruelty, Treachery, and
+the most abandoned Prostitution; Wretches who are ready to invent and
+maintain Schemes repugnant to the Interest, the Liberty, and the
+Happiness of Mankind, not to supply their Necessities, or even
+Conveniencies, but to pamper their Avarice and Ambition. And if this
+be the Road to worldly Honours, God forbid the Clergy should be even
+suspected of walking in it.
+
+The History of _Pamela_ I was acquainted with long before I received
+it from you, from my Neighbourhood to the Scene of Action. Indeed I
+was in hopes that young Woman would have contented herself with the
+Good-fortune she hath attained; and rather suffered her little Arts
+to have been forgotten than have revived their Remembrance, and
+endeavoured by perverting and misrepresenting Facts to be thought to
+deserve what she now enjoys: for though we do not imagine her the
+Author of the Narrative itself, yet we must suppose the Instructions
+were given by her, as well as the Reward, to the Composer. Who that
+is, though you so earnestly require of me, I shall leave you to guess
+from that _Ciceronian_ Eloquence, with which the Work abounds; and
+that excellent Knack of making every Character amiable, which he lays
+his hands on.
+
+But before I send you some Papers relating to this Matter, which will
+set _Pamela_ and some others in a very different Light, than that in
+which they appear in the printed Book, I must beg leave to make some
+few Remarks on the Book itself, and its Tendency, (admitting it to be
+a true Relation,) towards improving Morality, or doing any good,
+either to the present Age, or Posterity: which when I have done, I
+shall, I flatter myself, stand excused from delivering it, either
+into the hands of my Daughter, or my Servant-Maid.
+
+The Instruction which it conveys to Servant-Maids, is, I think, very
+plainly this, To look out for their Masters as sharp as they can. The
+Consequences of which will be, besides Neglect of their Business, and
+the using all manner of Means to come at Ornaments of their Persons,
+that if the Master is not a Fool, they will be debauched by him; and
+if he is a Fool, they will marry him. Neither of which, I apprehend,
+my good Friend, we desire should be the Case of our Sons.
+
+And notwithstanding our Author's Professions of Modesty, which in my
+Youth I have heard at the Beginning of an Epilogue, I cannot agree
+that my Daughter should entertain herself with some of his Pictures;
+which I do not expect to be contemplated without Emotion, unless by
+one of my Age and Temper, who can see the Girl lie on her Back, with
+one Arm round Mrs. _Jewkes_ and the other round the Squire, naked in
+Bed, with his Hand on her Breasts, _&c._ with as much Indifference as
+I read any other Page in the whole Novel. But surely this, and some
+other Descriptions, will not be put into the hands of his Daughter by
+any wise Man, though I believe it will be difficult for him to keep
+them from her; especially if the Clergy in Town have cried and
+preached it up as you say.
+
+But, my Friend, the whole Narrative is such a Misrepresentation of
+Facts, such a Perversion of Truth, as you will, I am perswaded,
+agree, as soon as you have perused the Papers I now inclose to you,
+that I hope you or some other well-disposed Person, will communicate
+these Papers to the Publick, that this little Jade may not impose on
+the World, as she hath on her Master.
+
+The true name of this Wench was SHAMELA, and not _Pamela_, as she
+stiles herself. Her Father had in his Youth the Misfortune to appear
+in no good Light at the _Old-Bailey_; he afterwards served in the
+Capacity of a Drummer in one of the _Scotch_ Regiments in the _Dutch_
+Service; where being drummed out, he came over to _England_, and
+turned Informer against several Persons on the late Gin-Act; and
+becoming acquainted with an Hostler at an Inn, where a _Scotch_
+Gentleman's Horses stood, he hath at last by his Interest obtain'd a
+pretty snug Place in the _Custom-house_. Her Mother sold Oranges in
+the Play-House; and whether she was married to her Father or no, I
+never could learn.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+After this short Introduction, the rest of her History will appear in
+the following Letters, which I assure you are authentick.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LETTER I.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to Mrs._ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS _at her
+Lodgings at the_ Fan _and_ Pepper-Box _in_ Drury-Lane.
+
+  _Dear Mamma_,
+
+This comes to acquaint you, that I shall set out in the Waggon on
+_Monday_, desiring you to commodate me with a Ludgin, as near you as
+possible, in _Coulstin's-Court_, or _Wild-Street_, or somewhere
+thereabouts; pray let it be handsome, and not above two Stories high:
+For Parson _Williams_ hath promised to visit me when he comes to
+Town, and I have got a good many fine Cloaths of the Old Put my
+Mistress's, who died a wil ago; and I beleve Mrs. _Jervis_ will come
+along with me, for she says she would like to keep a House somewhere
+about _Short's-Gardens_, or towards _Queen-Street_; and if there was
+convenience for a _Bannio_, she should like it the better; but that
+she will settle herself when she comes to Town.----_O! How I long to
+be in the Balconey at the Old House_----so no more at present from
+
+  _Your affectionate Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER II.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Mamma_,
+
+O what News, since I writ my last! the young Squire hath been here,
+and as sure as a Gun he hath taken a Fancy to me; _Pamela_, says he,
+(for so I am called here) you was a great Favourite of your late
+Mistress's; yes, an't please your Honour; says I; and I believe you
+deserved it, says he; thank your Honour for your good Opinion, says
+I; and then he took me by the Hand, and I pretended to be shy: Laud,
+says I, Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude; no, says he, my
+Dear, and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my breath----and I
+pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again,
+and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs.
+_Jervis_ came in, and had like to have spoiled Sport.----_How
+troublesome is such Interruption!_ You shall hear now soon, for I
+shall not come away yet, so I rest,
+
+  _Your affectionate Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER III.
+
+
+HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS _to_ SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Sham_,
+
+Your last Letter hath put me into a great hurry of Spirits, for you
+have a very difficult Part to act. I hope you will remember your Slip
+with Parson _Williams_, and not be guilty of any more such Folly.
+Truly, a Girl who hath once known what is what, is in the highest
+Degree inexcusable if she respects her _Digressions_; but a Hint of
+this is sufficient. When Mrs. _Jervis_ thinks of coming to Town, I
+believe I can procure her a good House, and fit for the Business; so
+I am,
+
+  _Your affectionate Mother_,
+
+  HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER IV.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+Marry come up, good Madam, the Mother had never looked into the Oven
+for her Daughter, if she had not been there herself. I shall never
+have done if you upbraid me with having had a small One by _Arthur
+Williams_, when you yourself--but I say no more. _O! What fine Times
+when the Kettle calls the Pot._ Let me do what I will, I say my
+Prayers as often as another, and I read in good Books, as often as I
+have Leisure; and Parson _William_ says, that will make amends.--So
+no more, but I rest
+
+  _Your afflicted Daughter_,
+
+  S----.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER V.
+
+
+HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS _to_ SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Child_,
+
+Why will you give such way to your Passion? How could you imagine I
+should be such a Simpleton, as to upbraid thee with being thy
+Mother's own Daughter! When I advised you not to be guilty of Folly,
+I meant no more than that you should take care to be well paid
+before-hand, and not trust to Promises, which a Man seldom keeps,
+after he hath had his wicked Will. And seeing you have a rich Fool to
+deal with, your not making a good Market will be the more
+inexcusable; indeed, with such Gentlemen as Parson _Williams_, there
+is more to be said; for they have nothing to give, and are commonly
+otherwise the best sort of Men. I am glad to hear you read good
+Books, pray continue so to do. I have inclosed you one of Mr.
+_Whitefield's_ Sermons, and also the Dealings with him, and am
+
+  _Your affectionate Mother_,
+
+  HENRIETTA MARIA, _&c._
+
+
+
+
+LETTER VI.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+O Madam, I have strange Things to tell you! As I was reading in that
+charming Book about the Dealings, in comes my Master--to be sure he
+is a precious One. _Pamela_, says he, what Book is that, I warrant
+you _Rochester's_ Poems.--No, forsooth, says I, as pertly as I could;
+why how now Saucy Chops, Boldface, says he--Mighty pretty Words, says
+I, pert again.--Yes (says he) you are a d--d, impudent, stinking,
+cursed, confounded Jade, and I have a great Mind to kick your A----.
+You, kiss ---- says I. A-gad, says he, and so I will; with that he
+caught me in his Arms, and kissed me till he made my Face all over
+Fire. Now this served purely you know, to put upon the Fool for
+Anger. O! What precious Fools Men are! And so I flung from him in a
+mighty Rage, and pretended as how I would go out at the Door; but
+when I came to the End of the Room, I stood still, and my Master
+cryed out, Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface, come hither----Yes to be
+sure, says I; why don't you come, says he; what should I come for
+says I; if you don't come to me, I'll come to you, says he; I shan't
+come to you I assure you, says I. Upon which he run up, caught me in
+his Arms, and flung me upon a Chair, and began to offer to touch my
+Under-Petticoat. Sir, says I, you had better not offer to be rude;
+well, says he, no more I won't then; and away he went out of the
+Room. I was so mad to be sure I could have cry'd.
+
+_Oh what a prodigious Vexation it is to a Woman to be made a Fool
+of._
+
+Mrs. _Jervis_ who had been without, harkening, now came to me. She
+burst into a violent Laugh the Moment she came in. Well, says she, as
+soon as she could speak, I have Reason to bless myself that I am an
+Old Woman. Ah Child! if you had known the Jolly Blades of my Age, you
+would not have been left in the lurch in this manner. Dear Mrs.
+_Jervis_, says I, don't laugh at one; and to be sure I was a little
+angry With her.----Come, says she, my dear Honeysuckle, I have one
+Game to play for you; he shall see you in Bed; he shall, my little
+Rosebud, he shall see those pretty, little, white, round,
+panting----and offer'd to pull off my Handkerchief.--Fie, Mrs.
+_Jervis_, says I, you make me blush, and upon my Fackins, I believe
+she did: She went on thus. I know the Squire likes you, and
+notwithstanding the Aukwardness of his Proceeding, I am convinced
+hath some hot Blood in his Veins, which will not let him rest, 'till
+he hath communicated some of his Warmth to thee my little Angel; I
+heard him last Night at our Door, trying if it was open, now to-night
+I will take care it shall be so; I warrant that he makes the second
+Trial; which if he doth, he shall find us ready to receive him. I
+will at first counterfeit Sleep, and after a Swoon; so that he will
+have you naked in his Possession: and then if you are disappointed, a
+Plague of all young Squires, say I.----And so, Mrs. _Jervis_, says I,
+you would have me yield myself to him, would you; you would have me
+be a second Time a Fool for nothing. Thank you for that, Mrs.
+_Jervis_. For nothing! marry forbid, says she, you know he hath large
+Sums of Money, besides abundance of fine Things; and do you think,
+when you have inflamed him, by giving his Hand a Liberty with that
+charming Person; and that you know he may easily think he obtains
+against your Will, he will not give any thing to come at all----.
+This will not do, Mrs. _Jervis_, answered I. I Have heard my Mamma
+say, (and so you know, Madam, I have) that in her Youth, Fellows have
+often taken away in the Morning, what they gave over Night. No, Mrs.
+_Jervis_, nothing under a regular taking into Keeping, a settled
+Settlement, for me, and all my Heirs, all my whole Life-time, shall
+do the Business----or else cross-legged, is the Word, faith, with
+_Sham_; and then I snapt my Fingers.
+
+
+_Thursday Night, Twelve o'Clock._
+
+Mrs. _Jervis_ and I are just in Bed, and the Door unlocked; if my
+Master should come----Odsbobs! I hear him just coming in at the Door.
+You see I write in the present Tense, as Parson _Williams_ says.
+Well, he is in Bed between us, we both shamming a Sleep, he steals
+his Hand into my Bosom, which I, as if in my Sleep, press close to me
+with mine, and then pretend to awake.--I no sooner see him, but I
+Scream out to Mrs. _Jervis_, she feigns likewise but just to come to
+herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very
+liberally. After having made a pretty free Use of my Fingers, without
+any great Regard to the Parts I attack'd, I counterfeit a Swoon. Mrs.
+_Jervis_ then cries out, O, Sir, what have you done, you have
+murthered poor _Pamela_: she is gone, she is gone.----
+
+_O what a Difficulty it is to keep one's Countenance, when a violent
+Laugh desires to burst forth._
+
+The poor Booby frightned out of his Wits, jumped out of Bed, and, in
+his Shirt, sat down by my Bed-Side, pale and trembling, for the Moon
+shone, and I kept my Eyes wide open, and pretended to fix them in my
+Head. Mrs. _Jervis_ apply'd Lavender Water, and Hartshorn, and this,
+for a full half Hour; when thinking I had carried it on long enough,
+and being likewise unable to continue the Sport any longer, I began
+by Degrees to come to my self.
+
+The Squire, who had sat all this while speechless, and was almost
+really in that Condition, which I feigned, the Moment he Saw me give
+Symptoms of recovering my Senses, fell down on his Knees; and O
+_Pamela_, cryed he, can you forgive me, my injured Maid? by Heaven, I
+know not whether you are a Man or a Woman, unless by your swelling
+Breasts. Will you promise to forgive me: I forgive you! D--n you
+(says I) and d--n you says he, if you come to that. I wish I had
+never seen your bold Face, saucy Sow, and so went out of the Room.
+
+_O what a silly Fellow is a bashful young Lover!_
+
+He was no Sooner out of hearing, as we thought, than we both burst
+into a violent Laugh. Well, says Mrs. _Jervis_, I never saw any thing
+better acted than your Part: But I wish you may not have discouraged
+him from any future Attempt; especially since his Passions are so
+cool, that you could prevent his Hands going further than your Bosom.
+Hang him, answered I, he is not quite so cold as that I assure you;
+our Hands, on neither side, were idle in the Scuffle, nor have left
+us any Doubt of each other as to that matter.
+
+
+_Friday Morning._
+
+My Master sent for Mrs. _Jervis_ as soon as he was up, and bid her
+give an Account of the Plate and Linnen in her Care; and told her, he
+was resolved that both she and the little Gipsy (I'll assure him)
+should set out together. Mrs. _Jervis_ made him a saucy Answer; which
+any Servant of Spirit, you know, would, tho' it should be one's Ruin;
+and came immediately in Tears to me, crying, she had lost her Place
+on my Account, and that she should be forced to take to a House, as I
+mentioned before; and that she hoped I would, at least, make her all
+the amends in my power, for her Loss on my Account, and come to her
+House whenever I was sent for. Never fear, says I, I'll warrant we
+are not so near being turned away, as you imagine; and, i'cod, now it
+comes into my Head, I have a Fetch for him, and you shall assist me
+in it. But it being now late, and my Letter pretty long, no more at
+present from
+
+  _Your Dutiful Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER VII.
+
+
+_Mrs._ LUCRETIA JERVIS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Madam_,
+
+Miss _Sham_ being set out in a Hurry for my Master's House in
+_Lincolnshire_, desired me to acquaint you with the Success of her
+Stratagem, which was to dress herself in the plain Neatness of a
+Farmer's Daughter, for she before wore the Cloaths of my late
+Mistress, and to be introduced by me as a Stranger to her Master. To
+say the Truth, she became the Dress extremely, and if I was to keep a
+House a thousand Years, I would never desire a prettier Wench in it.
+
+As soon as my Master saw her, he immediately threw his Arms round her
+Neck, and smothered her with Kisses (for indeed he hath but very
+little to say for himself to a Woman.) He swore that _Pamela_ was an
+ugly Slut, (pardon, dear Madam, the Coarseness of the Expression)
+compared to such divine Excellence. He added, he would turn _Pamela_
+away immediately, and take this new Girl, whom he thought to be one
+of his Tenant's Daughters, in her Room.
+
+Miss _Sham_ smiled at these Words, and so did your humble Servant,
+which he perceiving, looked very earnestly at your fair Daughter, and
+discovered the Cheat.
+
+How, _Pamela_, says he, is it you? I thought, Sir, said Miss, after
+what had happened, you would have known me in any Dress. No, Hussy,
+says he, but after what hath happened, I should know thee out of any
+Dress from all thy Sex. He then was what we Women call rude, when
+done in the Presence of others; but it seems it is not the first
+time, and Miss defended herself with great Strength and Spirit.
+
+The Squire, who thinks her a pure Virgin, and who knows nothing of my
+Character, resolved to send her into _Lincolnshire_, on Pretence of
+conveying her home; where our old Friend _Nanny Jewkes_ is
+Housekeeper, and where Miss had her small one by Parson _Williams_
+about a Year ago. This is a Piece of News communicated to us by
+_Robin_ Coachman, who is intrusted by his Master to carry on this
+Affair privately for him: But we hang together, I believe, as well as
+any Family of Servants in the Nation.
+
+You will, I believe, Madam, wonder that the Squire, who doth not want
+Generosity, should never have mentioned a Settlement all this while,
+I believe it slips his Memory: But it will not be long first, no
+doubt: For, as I am convinced the young Lady will do nothing
+unbecoming your Daughter, nor ever admit him to taste her Charms,
+without something sure and handsome before-hand; so, I am certain,
+the Squire will never rest till they have danced _Adam_ and _Eve's_
+kissing Dance together. Your Daughter set out Yesterday Morning, and
+told me, as soon as she arrived, you might depend on hearing from
+her.
+
+Be pleased to make my Compliments acceptable to Mrs. _Davis_ and Mrs.
+_Silvester_, and Mrs. _Jolly_, and all Friends, and permit me the
+Honour, Madam, to be with the utmost Sincerity,
+
+  _Your most Obedient_,
+
+  _Humble Servant_,
+
+  LUCRETIA JERVIS.
+
+If the Squire should continue his Displeasure against me, so as to
+insist on the Warning he hath given me, you will see me soon, and I
+will lodge in the same House with you, if you have room, till I can
+provide for my self to my Liking.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER VIII.
+
+
+HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS _to_ LUCRETIA JERVIS.
+
+  _Madam_,
+
+I Received the Favour of your Letter, and I find you have not forgot
+your usual Poluteness, which you learned when you was in keeping with
+a Lord.
+
+I am very much obliged to you for your Care of my Daughter, am glad
+to hear she hath taken such good Resolutions, and hope she will have
+sufficient Grace to maintain them.
+
+All Friends are well, and remember to you. You will excuse the
+Shortness of this Scroll; for I have Sprained my right Hand, with
+boxing three new made Officers.--Tho' to my Comfort, I beat them all.
+I rest,
+
+  _Your Friend and Servant_,
+
+  HENRIETTA, _&c._
+
+
+
+
+LETTER IX.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Mamma_,
+
+I Suppose Mrs. _Jervis_ acquainted you with what past 'till I left
+_Bedfordshire_; whence I am after a very pleasant Journey arrived in
+_Lincolnshire_, with your old Acquaintance Mrs. _Jewkes_, who
+formerly helped Parson _Williams_ to me; and now designs I see, to
+sell me to my Master; thank her for that; she will find two Words go
+to that Bargain.
+
+The Day after my Arrival here, I received a Letter from Mr.
+_Williams_, and as you have often desired to see one from him, I have
+inclosed it to you; it is, I think, the finest I ever received from
+that charming Man, and full of a great deal of Learning.
+
+_O! What a brave Thing it is to be a Schollard, and to be able to
+talk Latin._
+
+
+_Parson_ WILLIAMS _to_ PAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Mrs. Pamela_,
+
+Having learnt by means of my Clerk, who Yesternight visited the
+Rev^d. Mr. _Peters_ with my Commands, that you are returned into this
+County, I purposed to have saluted your fair Hands this Day towards
+Even: But am obliged to sojourn this Night at a neighbouring
+Clergyman's; where we are to pierce a Virgin Barrel of Ale, in a Cup
+of which I shall not be unmindful to celebrate your Health.
+
+I hope you have remembered your Promise, to bring me a leaden
+Canister of Tobacco (the Saffron Cut) for in Troth, this Country at
+present affords nothing worthy the replenishing a Tube with.----Some
+I tasted, the other Day at an Alehouse, gave me the Heart-Burn, tho'
+I filled no oftner than five times.
+
+I was greatly concerned to learn, that your late Lady left you
+nothing, tho' I cannot say the Tidings much surprized me: For I am
+too intimately acquainted with the Family; (myself, Father, and
+Grandfather having been successive Incumbents on the same Cure, which
+you know is in their Gift) I say, I am too well acquainted with them
+to expect much from their Generosity. They are in Verity, as
+worthless a Family as any other whatever. The young Gentleman I am
+informed, is a perfect Reprobate that he hath an _Ingenium Versatile_
+to every Species of Vice, which, indeed, no one can much wonder at,
+who animadverts on that want of Respect to the Clergy, which was
+observable in him when a Child, I remember when he was at the Age of
+Eleven only, he met my Father without either pulling off his Hat, or
+riding out of the way. Indeed, a Contempt of the Clergy is the
+fashionable Vice of the Times; but let such Wretches know, they
+cannot hate, detest, and despise us, half so much as we do them.
+
+However, I have prevailed on myself to write a civil Letter to your
+Master, as there is a Probability of his being shortly in a Capacity
+of rendring me a Piece of Service; my good Friend and Neighbour the
+Rev^d. Mr. _Squeeze-Tithe_ being, as I am informed by one whom I have
+employed to attend for that Purpose, very near his Dissolution.
+
+You see, sweet Mrs. _Pamela_, the Confidence with which I dictate
+these Things to you; whom after those Endearments which have passed
+between us, I must in some Respects estimate as my Wife: For tho' the
+Omission of the Service was a Sin; yet, as I have told you, it was a
+venial One, of which I have truly repented, as I hope you have; and
+also that you have continued the wholsome Office of reading good
+Books, and are improved in your Psalmody, of which I shall have a
+speedy Trial: For I purpose to give you a Sermon next _Sunday_, and
+shall spend the Evening with you, in Pleasures, which tho' not
+strictly innocent, are however to be purged away by frequent and
+sincere Repentance. I am,
+
+  _Sweet Mrs._ Pamela,
+
+  _Your faithful Servant_,
+
+  ARTHUR WILLIAMS.
+
+You find, Mamma, what a charming way he hath of Writing, and yet I
+assure you, that is not the most charming thing belonging to him:
+For, tho' he doth not put any Dears, and Sweets, and Loves into his
+Letters, yet he says a thousand of them: For he can be as fond of a
+Woman, as any Man living.
+
+_Sure Women are great Fools, when they prefer a laced Coat to the
+Clergy, whom it is our Duty to honour and respect._
+
+Well, on _Sunday_ Parson _Williams_ came, according to his Promise,
+and an excellent Sermon he preached; his Text was, _Be not Righteous
+over much_; and, indeed, he handled it in a very fine way; he shewed
+us that the Bible doth not require too much Goodness of us, and that
+People very often call things Goodness that are not so. That to go to
+Church, and to pray, and to sing Psalms, and to honour the Clergy,
+and to repent, is true Religion; and 'tis not doing good to one
+another, for that is one of the greatest Sins we can commit, when we
+don't do it for the sake of Religion. That those People who talk of
+Vartue and Morality, are the wickedest of all Persons. That 'tis not
+what we do, but what we believe, that must save us, and a great many
+other good Things; I wish I could remember them all.
+
+As soon as Church was over, he came to the Squire's House, and drank
+Tea with Mrs. _Jewkes_ and me; after which Mrs. _Jewkes_ went out and
+left us together for an Hour and half--Oh! he is a charming Man.
+
+After Supper he went Home, and then Mrs. _Jewkes_ began to catechize
+me, about my Familiarity with him. I see she wants him herself. Then
+she proceeded to tell me what an Honour my Master did me in liking
+me, and that it was both an inexcusable Folly and Pride in me, to
+pretend to refuse him any Favour. Pray, Madam, says I, consider I am
+a poor Girl, and have nothing but my Modesty to trust to. If I part
+with that, what will become of me. Methinks, says she, you are not so
+mighty modest when you are with Parson _Williams_; I have observed
+you gloat at one another, in a Manner that hath made me blush. I
+assure you, I shall let the Squire know what sort of Man he is; you
+may do your Will, says I, as long as he hath a Vote for
+Pallamant-Men, the Squire dares do nothing to offend him; and you
+will only shew that you are jealous of him, and that's all. How now,
+Mynx, says she; Mynx! No more Mynx than yourself, says I; with that
+she hit me a Slap on the Shoulder; and I flew at her and scratched
+her Face, i'cod, 'till she went crying out of the Room; so no more at
+present, from
+
+  _Your Dutiful Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER X.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+O Mamma! Rare News! As soon as I was up this Morning, a Letter was
+brought me from the Squire, of which I send you a Copy.
+
+
+_Squire_ BOOBY _to_ PAMELA.
+
+  _Dear Creature_,
+
+I hope you are not angry with me for the Deceit put upon you, in
+conveying you to _Lincolnshire_, when you imagined yourself going to
+_London_. Indeed, my dear _Pamela_, I cannot live without you; and
+will very shortly come down and convince you, that my Designs are
+better than you imagine, and such as you may with Honour comply with.
+I am,
+
+  _My Dear Creature_,
+
+  _Your doating Lover_,
+
+  BOOBY.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+Now, Mamma, what think you?----For my own Part, I am convinced he
+will marry me, and faith so he shall. O! Bless me! I shall be Mrs.
+_Booby_ and be Mistress of a great Estate, and have a dozen Coaches
+and Six, and a fine House at _London_, and another at _Bath_, and
+Servants, and Jewels, and Plate, and go to Plays, and Opera's, and
+Court; and do what I will, and spend what I will. But, poor Parson
+_Williams_! Well; and can't I see Parson _Williams_, as well after
+Marriage as before: For I shall never care a Farthing for my Husband.
+No, I hate and despise him of all Things.
+
+Well, as soon as I had read my Letter, in came Mrs. _Jewkes_. You
+see, Madam, says she, I carry the Marks of your Passion about me; but
+I have received order from my Master to be civil to you, and I must
+obey him: For he is the best Man in the World, notwithstanding your
+Treatment of him. My Treatment of him, Madam, says I? Yes, says she,
+your Insensibility to the Honour he intends you, of making you his
+Mistress. I would have you to know, Madam, I would not be Mistress to
+the greatest King, no nor Lord in the Universe. I value my Vartue
+more than I do any thing my Master can give me; and so we talked a
+full Hour and a half, about my Vartue; and I was afraid at first, she
+had heard something about the Bantling, but I find she hath not; tho'
+she is as jealous, and suspicious, as old Scratch.
+
+In the Afternoon, I stole into the Garden to meet Mr. _Williams_; I
+found him at the Place of his Appointment, and we staid in a kind of
+Arbour, till it was quite dark. He was very angry when I told him
+what Mrs. _Jewkes_ had threatned----Let him refuse me the Living,
+says he, if he dares, I will vote for the other Party; and not only
+so, but will expose him all over the Country. I owe him 150_l._
+indeed, but I don't care for that; by that time the Election is past,
+I shall be able to plead the _Statue_ of _Lamentations_.
+
+I could have stayed with the dear Man forever, but when it grew dark,
+he told me, he was to meet the neighbouring Clergy, to finish the
+Barrel of Ale they had tapped the other Day, and believed they should
+not part till three or four in the Morning----So he left me, and I
+promised to be penitent, and go on with my reading in good Books.
+
+As soon as he was gone, I bethought myself, what Excuse I should make
+to Mrs. _Jewkes_, and it came into my Head to pretend as how I
+intended to drown myself; so I stript off one of my Petticoats, and
+threw it into the Canal; and then I went and hid myself in the
+Coal-hole, where I lay all Night; and comforted myself with repeating
+over some Psalms, and other good things, which I had got by heart.
+
+In the Morning Mrs. _Jewkes_ and all the Servants were frighted out
+of their Wits, thinking I had run away; and not devising how they
+should answer it to their Master. They searched all the likeliest
+Places they could think of for me, and at last saw my Petticoat
+floating in the Pond. Then they got a Drag-Net, imagining I was
+drowned, and intending to drag me out; but at last _Moll_ Cook coming
+for some Coals, discovered me lying all along in no very good Pickle.
+Bless me! Mrs. _Pamela_, says she, what can be the Meaning of this? I
+don't know, says I, help me up, and I will go in to Breakfast, for
+indeed I am very hungry. Mrs. _Jewkes_ came in immediately, and was
+so rejoyced to find me alive, that she asked with great Good-Humour,
+where I had been? and how my Petticoat came into the Pond. I
+answered, I believed the Devil had put it into my Head to drown my
+self; but it was a Fib; for I never saw the Devil in my Life, nor I
+don't believe he hath any thing to do with me.
+
+So much for this Matter. As soon as I had breakfasted, a Coach and
+Six came to the Door, and who should be in it but my Master.
+
+I immediately run up into my Room, and stript, and washed, and drest
+my self as well as I could, and put on my prettiest round-ear'd Cap,
+and pulled down my Stays, to shew as much as I could of my Bosom,
+(for Parson _Williams_ says that is the most beautiful part of a
+Woman) and then I practised over all my Airs before the Glass, and
+then I sat down and read a Chapter in the Whole Duty of Man.
+
+Then Mrs. _Jewkes_ came to me and told me, my Master wanted me below,
+and says she, Don't behave like a Fool; No, thinks I to my self, I
+believe I shall find Wit enough for my Master and you too.
+
+So down goes me I into the Parlour to him. _Pamela_, says he, the
+Moment I came in, you see I cannot stay long from you, which I think
+is a sufficient Proof of the Violence of my Passion. Yes, Sir, says
+I, I see your Honour intends to ruin me, that nothing but the
+Destruction of my Vartue will content you.
+
+_O what a charming Word that is, rest his Soul who first invented
+it._
+
+How can you say I would ruin you, answered the Squire, when you shall
+not ask any thing which I will not grant you. If that be true, says
+I, good your Honour let me go home to my poor but honest Parents;
+that is all I have to ask, and do not ruin a poor Maiden, who is
+resolved to carry her Vartue to the Grave with her.
+
+Hussy, says he, don't provoke me, don't provoke me, I say. You are
+absolutely in my power, and if you won't let me lie with you by fair
+Means, I will by Force. O la, Sir, says I, I don't understand your
+paw Words.----Very pretty Treatment indeed, says he, to say I use paw
+Words; Hussy, Gipsie, Hypocrite, Saucebox, Boldface, get out of my
+Sight, or I will lend you such a Kick in the ---- I don't care to
+repeat the Word, but he meant my hinder part. I was offering to go
+away, for I was half afraid, when he called me back, and took me
+round the Neck and kissed me, and then bid me go about my Business.
+
+I went directly into my Room, where Mrs. _Jewkes_ came to me soon
+afterwards. So Madam, says she, you have left my Master below in a
+fine Pet, he hath threshed two or three of his Men already: It is
+might pretty that all his Servants are to be punished for your
+Impertinence.
+
+Harkee, Madam, says I, don't you affront me, for if you do, d--n me
+(I am sure I have repented for using such a Word) if I am not
+revenged.
+
+_How sweet is Revenge: Sure the Sermon Book is in the Right, in
+calling it the sweetest Morsel the Devil ever dropped into the Mouth
+of a Sinner._
+
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ remembered the Smart of my Nails too well to go
+farther, and so we sat down and talked about my Vartue till
+Dinner-time, and then I was sent for to wait on my Master. I took
+care to be often caught looking at him, and then I always turn'd away
+my Eyes, and pretended to be ashamed. As soon as the Cloth was
+removed, he put a Bumper of Champagne into my Hand, and bid me
+drink----O la I can't name the Health. Parson _Williams_ may well say
+he is a wicked Man.
+
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ took a Glass and drank the dear _Monysyllable_; I don't
+understand that Word, but I believe it is baudy. I then drank towards
+his Honour's good Pleasure. Ay, Hussy, says he, you can give me
+Pleasure if you will; Sir, says I, I shall be always glad to do what
+is in my power, and so I pretended not to know what he meant. Then he
+took me into his Lap.--O Mamma, I could tell you something if I
+would--and he kissed me----and I said I won't be slobber'd about so,
+so I won't; and he bid me get out of the Room for a saucy Baggage,
+and said he had a good mind to spit in my Face.
+
+_Sure no Man over took such a Method to gain a Woman's Heart._
+
+I had not been long in my Chamber before Mrs. _Jewkes_ came to me,
+and told me, my Master would not see me any more that Evening, that
+is, if he can help it; for, added she, I easily perceive the great
+Ascendant you have over him, and to confess the Truth, I don't doubt
+but you will shortly be my Mistress.
+
+What says I, dear Mrs. _Jewkes_, what do you say? Don't flatter a
+poor Girl, it is impossible his Honour can have any honourable Design
+upon me. And so we talked of honourable Designs till Supper-time. And
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ and I supped together upon a hot buttered Apple-Pie;
+and about ten o'Clock we went to Bed.
+
+We had not been a Bed half an Hour, when my Master came pit a pat
+into the Room in his Shirt as before. I pretended not to hear him,
+and Mrs. _Jewkes_ laid hold of one Arm, and he pulled down the Bed
+cloaths and came into Bed on the other Side, and took my other Arm
+and laid it under him, and fell a kissing one of my Breasts as if he
+would have devoured it; I was then forced to awake, and began to
+struggle with him, Mrs. _Jewkes_ crying why don't you do it? I have
+one Arm secure, if you can't deal with the rest I am sorry for you.
+He was as rude as possible to me; but I remembered, Mamma, the
+Instructions you gave me to avoid being ravished, and followed them,
+which soon brought him to Terms, and he promised me, on quitting my
+hold, that he would leave the Bed.
+
+_O Parson_ Williams, _how little are all the Men in the World
+compared to thee_.
+
+My Master was as good as his Word; upon which Mrs. _Jewkes_ said, O
+Sir, I see you know very little of our _Sect_, by parting so easily
+from the Blessing when you was so near it. No, Mrs. _Jewkes_,
+answered he, I am very glad no more hath happened, I would not have
+injured _Pamela_ for the World. And to-morrow Morning perhaps she may
+hear of something to her Advantage. This she may be certain of, that
+I will never take her by Force, and then he left the Room.
+
+What think you now, Mrs. _Pamela_, says Mrs. _Jewkes_, are you not
+yet persuaded my Master hath honourable Designs? I think he hath
+given no great Proof of them to-night, said I. Your Experience I find
+is not great, says she, but I am convinced you will shortly be my
+Mistress, and then what will become of poor me.
+
+With such sort of Discourse we both fell asleep. Next Morning early
+my Master sent for me, and after kissing me, gave a Paper into my
+Hand which he bid me read; I did so, and found it to be a Proposal
+for settling 250_l._ a Year on me, besides several other advantagious
+Offers, as Presents of Money and other things. Well, _Pamela_, said
+he, what Answer do you make me to this. Sir, said I, I value my
+Vartue more than all the World, and I had rather be the poorest Man's
+Wife, than the richest Man's Whore. You are a Simpleton, said he;
+That may be, and yet I may have as much Wit as some Folks, cry'd I;
+meaning me, I suppose, said he, every Man knows himself best, says I.
+Hussy, says he, get out of the Room, and let me see your saucy Face
+no more, for I find I am in more Danger than you are, and therefore
+it shall be my Business to avoid you as much as I can; and it shall
+be mine, thinks I, at every turn to throw my self in your way. So I
+went out, and as I parted, I heard him sigh and say he was bewitched.
+
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ hath been with me since, and she assures me she is
+convinced I shall shortly be Mistress of the Family, and she really
+behaves to me, as if she already thought me so. I am resolved now to
+aim at it. I thought once of making a little Fortune by my Person. I
+now intend to make a great one by my Vartue. So asking Pardon for
+this long Scroll, I am,
+
+  _Your dutiful Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER XI.
+
+
+HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS _to_ SHAMELA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Sham_,
+
+I Received your last Letter with infinite Pleasure, and am convinced
+it will be your own Fault if you are not married to your Master, and
+I would advise you now to take no less Terms. But, my dear Child, I
+am afraid of one Rock only, That Parson _Williams_, I wish he was out
+of the Way. A Woman never commits Folly but with such Sort of Men, as
+by many Hints in the Letters I collect him to be: but, consider my
+dear Child, you will hereafter have Opportunities sufficient to
+indulge yourself with Parson _Williams_, or any other you like. My
+Advice therefore to you is, that you would avoid seeing him any more
+till the Knot is tied. Remember the first Lesson I taught you, that a
+married Woman injures only her Husband, but a single Woman herself. I
+am in hopes of seeing you a great Lady,
+
+  _Your affectionate Mother_,
+
+  HENRIETTA MARIA, _&c._
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+The following Letter seems to have been written before _Shamela_
+received the last from her Mother.
+
+
+
+
+LETTER XII.
+
+
+SHAMELA ANDREWS _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Dear Mamma_,
+
+I Little feared when I sent away my last that all my Hopes would be
+so soon frustrated; but I am certain you will blame Fortune and not
+me. To proceed then. About two Hours after I had left the Squire, he
+sent for me into the Parlour. _Pamela_, said he, and takes me gently
+by the hand, will you walk with me in the Garden; yes, Sir, says I,
+and pretended to tremble; but I hope your Honour will not be rude.
+Indeed, says he, you have nothing to fear from me, and I have
+something to tell you, which if it doth not please you, cannot
+offend. We walked out together, and he began thus, _Pamela_, will you
+tell me Truth? Doth the Resistance you make to my Attempts proceed
+from Vartue only, or have I not some Rival in thy dear Bosom who
+might be more successful? Sir, says I, I do assure you I never had a
+thought of any Man in the World. How says he, not of Parson
+_Williams_! Parson _Williams_, says I, is the last Man upon Earth;
+and if I was a Dutchess, and your Honour was to make your Addresses
+to me, you would have no reason to be jealous of any Rival,
+especially such a Fellow as Parson _Williams_. If ever I had a
+Liking, I am sure----but I am not worthy of you one Way, and no
+Riches should ever bribe me the other. My Dear, says he, you are
+worthy of every Thing, and suppose I should lay aside all
+Considerations of Fortune, and disregard the Censure of the World,
+and marry you. O Sir, says I, I am sure you can have no such
+Thoughts, you cannot demean your self so low. Upon my Soul, I am in
+earnest, says he,--O Pardon me, Sir, says I, you can't persuade me of
+this. How Mistress, says he, in a violent Rage, do you give me the
+Lie? Hussy, I have a great mind to box your saucy Ears, but I am
+resolved I will never put it in your power to affront me again, and
+therefore I desire you to prepare your self for your Journey this
+Instant. You deserve no better Vehicle than a Cart; however, for once
+you shall have a Chariot, and it shall be ready for you within this
+half Hour; and so he flung from me in a Fury.
+
+_What a foolish Thing it is for a Woman to dally too long with her
+Lover's Desires; how many have owed their being old Maids to their
+holding out too long._
+
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ came me to presently, and told me, I must make ready
+with all the Expedition imaginable, for that my Master had ordered
+the Chariot, and that if I was not prepared to go in it, I should be
+turned out of Doors, and left to find my way Home on Foot. This
+startled me a little, yet I resolved, whether in the right or wrong,
+not to submit nor ask Pardon: For that know you, Mamma, you never
+could your self bring me to from my Childhood: Besides, I thought he
+would be no more able to master his Passion for me now, than he had
+been hitherto; and if he sent two Horses away with me, I concluded he
+would send four to fetch me back. So, truly, I resolved to brazen it
+out, and with all the Spirit I could muster up, I told Mrs. _Jewkes_
+I was vastly pleased with the News she brought me; that no one ever
+went more readily than I should, from a Place where my Vartue had
+been in continual Danger. That as for my Master, he might easily get
+those who were fit for his Purpose; but, for my Part, I preferred my
+Vartue to all Rakes whatever----And for his Promises, and his Offers
+to me, I don't value them of a Fig--Not of a Fig, Mrs. _Jewkes_; and
+then I snapt my Fingers.
+
+Mrs. _Jewkes_ went in with me, and helped me to pack up my little
+All, which was soon done; being no more than two Day-Caps, two
+Night-Caps, five Shifts, one Sham, a Hoop, a Quilted-Petticoat, two
+Flannel-Petticoats, two pair of Stockings, one odd one, a pair of
+lac'd Shoes, a short flowered Apron, a lac'd Neck-Handkerchief, one
+Clog, and almost another, and some few Books: as, _A full Answer to a
+plain and true Account_, &c. _The Whole Duty of Man_, with only the
+Duty to one's Neighbour, torn out. The Third Volume of the
+_Atalantis_. _Venus in the Cloyster: Or, the Nun in her Smock_.
+_God's Dealings with Mr. Whitefield_. _Orfus and Eurydice_. Some
+Sermon-Books; and two or three Plays, with their Titles, and Part of
+the first Act torn off.
+
+So as soon as we had put all this into a Bundle, the Chariot was
+ready, and I took leave of all the Servants, and particularly Mrs.
+_Jewkes_, who pretended, I believe, to be more sorry to part with me
+than she was; and then crying out with an Air of Indifference, my
+Service to my Master, when he condescends to enquire after me, I
+flung my self into the Chariot, and bid _Robin_ drive on.
+
+We had not gone far, before a Man on Horseback, riding full Speed,
+overtook us, and coming up to the Side of the Chariot, threw a Letter
+into the Window, and then departed without uttering a single
+Syllable.
+
+I immediately knew the Hand of my dear _Williams_, and was somewhat
+surprised, tho' I did not apprehend the Contents to be so terrible,
+as by the following exact Copy you will find them.
+
+
+_Parson_ WILLIAMS _to_ PAMELA.
+
+  _Dear Mrs._ PAMELA,
+
+That Disrespect for the Clergy, which I have formerly noted to you in
+that Villain your Master, hath now broke forth in a manifest Fact. I
+was proceeding to my Neighbour _Spruce's_ Church, where I purposed to
+preach a Funeral Sermon, on the Death of Mr. _John Gage_, the
+Exciseman; when I was met by two Persons who are, it seems, Sheriffs
+Officers, and arrested for the 150_l._ which your Master had lent me;
+and unless I can find Bail within these few Days, of which I see no
+likelihood, I shall be carried to Goal. This accounts for my not
+having visited you these two Days; which you might assure yourself, I
+should not have fail'd, if the _Potestas_ had not been wanting. If
+you can by any means prevail on your Master to release me, I beseech
+you so to do, not scrupling any thing for Righteousness sake. I hear
+he is just arrived in this Country, I have herewith sent him a
+Letter, of which I transmit you a Copy. So with Prayers for your
+Success, I Subscribe myself
+
+  _Your affectionate Friend_,
+
+  ARTHUR WILLIAMS.
+
+
+_Parson_ WILLIAMS _to_ SQUIRE BOOBY.
+
+  _Honoured Sir_,
+
+I am justly surprized to feel so heavy a Weight of your Displeasure,
+without being conscious of the least Demerit towards so good and
+generous a Patron, as I have ever found you: For my own Part, I can
+truly say,
+
+  _Nil conscire sibi nullae pallescere culpae._
+
+And therefore, as this Proceeding is so contrary to your usual
+Goodness, which I have often experienced, and more especially in the
+Loan of this Money for which I am now arrested; I cannot avoid
+thinking some malicious Persons have insinuated false Suggestions
+against me; intending thereby, to eradicate those Seeds of Affection
+which I have hardly travailed to sowe in your Heart, and which
+promised to produce such excellent Fruit. If I have any ways offended
+you, Sir, be graciously pleased to let me know it, and likewise to
+point out to me, the Means whereby I may reinstate myself in your
+Favour: For next to him, whom the Great themselves must bow down
+before, I know none to whom I shall bend with more Lowliness than
+your Honour. Permit me to subscribe myself,
+
+  _Honoured Sir_,
+
+  _Your most obedient, and most obliged_,
+
+  _And most dutiful humble Servant_,
+
+  ARTHUR WILLIAMS.
+
+The Fate of poor Mr. _Williams_ shocked me more than my own: For, as
+the _Beggar's Opera_ says, _Nothing moves one so much as a great Man
+in Distress._ And to see a Man of his Learning forced to submit so
+low, to one whom I have often heard him say, he despises, is, I
+think, a most affecting Circumstance. I write all this to you, Dear
+Mamma, at the Inn where I lie this first Night, and as I shall send
+it immediately, by the Post, it will be in Town a little before
+me.----Don't let my coming away vex you: For, as my Master will be in
+Town in a few Days, I shall have an Opportunity of seeing him; and
+let the worst come to the worst, I shall be sure of my Settlement at
+last. Which is all, from
+
+  _Your dutiful Daughter_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+_P. S._ Just as I was going to send this away a Letter is come from
+my Master, desiring me to return, with a large Number of Promises.--I
+have him now as sure as a Gun, as you will perceive by the Letter
+itself, which I have inclosed to you.
+
+This Letter is unhappily lost, as well as the next which _Shamela_
+wrote, and which contained an Account of all the Proceedings previous
+to her Marriage. The only remaining one which I could preserve, seems
+to have been written about a Week after the Ceremony was perform'd,
+and is as follows:
+
+
+SHAMELA BOOBY _to_ HENRIETTA MARIA HONORA ANDREWS.
+
+  _Madam_,
+
+In my last I left off at our sitting down to Supper on our Wedding
+Night,[1] where I behaved with as much Bashfulness as the purest
+Virgin in the World could have done. The most difficult Task for me
+was to blush; however, by holding my Breath, and Squeezing my Cheeks
+with my Handkerchief, I did pretty well. My Husband was extreamly
+eager and impatient to have Supper removed, after which he gave me
+leave to retire into my Closet for a Quarter of an Hour, which was
+very agreeable to me; for I employed that time in writing to Mr.
+_Williams_, who, as I informed you in my last, is released, and
+presented to the Living, upon the Death of the last Parson. Well, at
+last I went to Bed, and my Husband soon leap'd in after me; where, I
+shall only assure you, I acted my Part in such a manner, that no
+Bridegroom was ever better Satisfied with his Bride's Virginity. And
+to confess the Truth, I might have been well enough Satisfied too, if
+I had never been acquainted with Parson _Williams_.
+
+_O what regard Men who marry Widows should have to the Qualifications
+of their former Husbands._
+
+We did not rise the next Morning till eleven, and then we sat down to
+Breakfast; I eat two Slices of Bread and Butter, and drank three
+Dishes of Tea, with a good deal of Sugar, and we both look'd very
+silly. After Breakfast we drest our selves, he in a blue Camblet
+Coat, very richly lac'd, and Breeches of the same; with a Paduafoy
+Waistcoat, laced with Silver; and I, in one of my Mistress's Gowns. I
+will have finer when I come to Town. We then took a Walk in the
+Garden, and he kissed me several times, and made me a Present of 100
+Guineas, which I gave away before Night to the Servants, twenty to
+one, and ten to another, and so on.
+
+We eat a very hearty Dinner, and about eight in the Evening went to
+Bed again. He is prodigiously fond of me; but I don't like him half
+so well as my dear _Williams_. The next Morning we rose earlier, and
+I asked him for another hundred Guineas, and he gave them me. I sent
+fifty to Parson _Williams_, and the rest I gave away, two Guineas to
+a Beggar, and three to a Man riding along the Road, and the rest to
+other People. I long to be in _London_ that I may have an Opportunity
+of laying some out, as well as giving away. I believe I shall buy
+every thing I see. What signifies having Money if one doth not spend
+it.
+
+The next Day, as soon as I was up, I asked him for another Hundred.
+Why, my Dear, says he, I don't grudge you any thing, but how was it
+possible for you to lay out the other two Hundred here. La! Sir, says
+I, I hope I am not obliged to give you an Account of every Shilling;
+Troth, that will be being your Servant still. I assure you, I married
+you with no such view, besides did not you tell me I should be
+Mistress of your Estate? And I will be too. For tho' I brought no
+Fortune, I am as much your Wife as if I had brought a Million--yes,
+but, my Dear, says he, if you had brought a Million, you would spend
+it all at this rate; besides, what will your Expences be in _London_,
+if they are so great here. Truly, says I, Sir, I shall live like
+other Ladies of my Fashion; and if you think, because I was a
+Servant, that I shall be contented to be governed as you please, I
+will shew you, you are mistaken. If you had not cared to marry me,
+you might have let it alone. I did not ask you, nor I did not court
+you. Madam, says he, I don't value a hundred Guineas to oblige you;
+but this is a Spirit which I did not expect in you, nor did I ever
+see any Symptoms of it before. O but Times are altered now, I am your
+Lady, Sir; yes to my Sorrow, says he, I am afraid--and I am afraid to
+my Sorrow too: For if you begin to use me in this manner already, I
+reckon you will beat me before a Month's at an end. I am sure if you
+did, it would injure me less than this barbarous Treatment; upon
+which I burst into Tears, and pretended to fall into a Fit. This
+frighted him out of his wits, and he called up the Servants. Mrs.
+_Jewkes_ immediately came in, and she and another of the Maids fell
+heartily to rubbing my Temples, and holding Smelling-Bottles to my
+Nose. Mrs. _Jewkes_ told him she fear'd I should never recover, upon
+which he began to beat his Breasts, and cried out, O my dearest
+Angel, Curse on my passionate Temper, I have destroy'd her, I have
+destroy'd her!----would she had spent my whole Estate rather than
+this had happened. Speak to me, my Love, I will melt myself into Gold
+for thy Pleasure. At last having pretty well tired my self with
+counterfeiting, and imagining I had continu'd long enough for my
+purpose in the sham Fit, I began to move my Eyes, to loosen my Teeth,
+and to open my Hands, which Mr. _Booby_ no sooner perceived than he
+embraced and kissed me with the eagerest Extacy, asked my Pardon on
+his Knees for what I had suffered through his Folly and Perverseness,
+and without more Questions fetched me the Money. I fancy I have
+effectually prevented any farther Refusals or Inquiry into my
+Expences. It would be hard indeed, that a Woman who marries a Man
+only for his Money, should be debarred from spending it.
+
+Well, after all things were quiet, we sat down to Breakfast, yet I
+resolved not to smile once, nor to say one good-natured, or
+good-humoured Word on any Account.
+
+_Nothing can be more prudent in a Wife, than a sullen Backwardness to
+Reconciliation; it makes a Husband fearful of offending by the Length
+of his Punishment._
+
+When we were drest, the Coach was by my Desire ordered for an Airing,
+which we took in it. A long Silence prevailed on both Sides, tho' he
+constantly squeezed my Hand, and kissed me, and used other
+Familiarities, which I peevishly permitted. At last, I opened my
+Mouth first.--And so, says I, you are sorry you are married;--Pray,
+my Dear, says he, forget what I said in a Passion. Passion, says I,
+is apter to discover our Thoughts than to teach us to counterfeit.
+Well, says he, whether you will believe me or no, I solemnly vow, I
+would not change thee for the richest Woman in the Universe. No, I
+warrant you, says I; and yet you could refuse me a nasty hundred
+Pound. At these very Words, I saw Mr. _Williams_ riding as fast as he
+could across a Field; and I looked out, and saw a Lease of Greyhounds
+coursing a Hare, which they presently killed, and I saw him alight,
+and take it from them.
+
+My Husband ordered _Robin_ to drive towards him, and looked horribly
+out of humour, which I presently imputed to Jealousy. So I began with
+him first; for that is the wisest way. La, Sir, says I; what makes
+you look so Angry and Grim? Doth the Sight of Mr. _Williams_ give you
+all this Uneasiness? I am sure, I would never have married a Woman of
+whom I had so bad an Opinion, that I must be uneasy at every Fellow
+she looks at. My Dear, answer'd he, you injure me extremely, you was
+not in my Thoughts, nor, indeed, could be, while they were covered by
+so morose a Countenance; I am justly angry with that Parson, whose
+Family hath been raised from the Dunghill by ours; and who hath
+received from me twenty Kindnesses, and yet is not contented to
+destroy the Game in all other Places, which I freely give him leave
+to do; but hath the Impudence to pursue a few Hares, which I am
+desirous to preserve, round about this little Coppice. Look, my Dear,
+pray look, says he; I believe he is going to turn Higler. To Confess
+the Truth, he had no less than three ty'd up behind his Horse, and a
+fourth he held in his Hand.
+
+Pshaw, says I, I wish all the Hares in the Country were d----d (the
+Parson himself chid me afterwards for using the Word, tho' it was in
+his Service.) Here's a Fuss, indeed, about a nasty little pitiful
+Creature, that is not half so useful as a Cat. You shall not persuade
+me, that a Man of your Understanding, would quarrel with a Clergyman
+for such a Trifle. No, no, I am the Hare, for whom poor Parson
+_Williams_ is persecuted; and Jealousy is the Motive. If you had
+married one of your Quality Ladies, she would have had Lovers by
+dozens, she would so; but because you have taken a Servant-Maid,
+forsooth! you are jealous if she but looks (and then I began to
+Water) at a poor P----a----a----rson in his Pu----u----u----lpit, and
+then out burst a Flood of Tears.
+
+My Dear, said he, for Heaven's sake dry your Eyes, and don't let him
+be a Witness of your Tears, which I should be sorry to think might be
+imputed to my Unkindness; I have already given you Some Proofs that I
+am not jealous of this Parson; I will now give you a very strong one:
+For I will mount my Horse, and you shall take _Williams_ into the
+Coach. You may be sure, this Motion pleased me, yet I pretended to
+make as light of it as possible, and told him, I was sorry his
+Behaviour had made some such glaring Instance, necessary to the
+perfect clearing my Character.
+
+He soon came up to Mr. _Williams_, who had attempted to ride off, but
+was prevented by one of our Horsemen, whom my Husband sent to stop
+him. When we met, my Husband asked him how he did with a very
+good-humoured Air, and told him he perceived he had found good Sport
+that Morning. He answered pretty moderate, Sir; for that he had found
+the three Hares tied on to the Saddle dead in a Ditch (winking on me
+at the same time), and added he was sorry there was such a Rot among
+them.
+
+Well, says Mr. _Booby_, if you please, Mr. _Williams_, you shall come
+in and ride with my Wife. For my own part, I will mount on Horseback;
+for it is fine Weather, and besides, it doth not become me to loll in
+a Chariot, whilst a Clergyman rides on Horseback.
+
+At which Words, Mr. _Booby_ leap'd out, and Mr. _Williams_ leap'd in,
+in an Instant, telling my Husband as he mounted, he was glad to see
+such a Reformation, and that if he continued his Respect to the
+Clergy, he might assure himself of Blessings from above.
+
+It was now that the Airing began to grow pleasant to me. Mr.
+_Williams_, who never had but one Fault, _viz._ that he generally
+smells of Tobacco, was now perfectly sweet; for he had for two Days
+together enjoined himself as a Penance, not to smoke till he had
+kissed my Lips. I will loosen you from that Obligation, says I, and
+observing my Husband looking another way, I gave him a charming Kiss,
+and then he asked me Questions concerning my Wedding-night; this
+actually made me blush: I vow I did not think, it had been in him.
+
+As he went along, he began to discourse very learnedly, and told me
+the Flesh and the Spirit were too distinct Matters, which had not the
+least relation to each other. That all immaterial Substances (those
+were his very Words) such as Love, Desire, and so forth, were guided
+by the Spirit: But fine Houses, large Estates, Coaches, and dainty
+Entertainments were the Product of the Flesh. Therefore, says he, my
+Dear, you have two Husbands, one the Object of your Love, and to
+satisfy your Desire; the other the Object of your Necessity, and to
+furnish you with those other Conveniences. (I am sure I remember
+every Word, for he repeated it three Times; O he is very good
+whenever I desire him to repeat a thing to me three times he always
+doth it!) as then the Spirit is preferable, to the Flesh, so am I
+preferable to your other Husband, to whom I am antecedent in Time
+likewise. I say these things, my Dear, (said he) to satisfie your
+Conscience. A Fig, for my Conscience, said I, when shall I meet you
+again in the Garden?
+
+My Husband now rode up to the Chariot, and asked us how we did--I
+hate the Sight of him. Mr. _Williams_ answered very well, at your
+Service. They then talked of the Weather, and other things, I wished
+him gone again, every Minute; but all in vain I had no more
+Opportunity of conversing with Mr. _Williams_.
+
+Well; at Dinner Mr. _Booby_ was very civil to Mr. _Williams_, and
+told him he was sorry for what had happened, and would make him
+sufficient Amends, if in his power, and desired him to accept of a
+Note for fifty Pounds; which he was so _good_ to receive,
+notwithstanding all that had past; and told Mr. _Booby_, he hop'd he
+would be forgiven, and that he would pray for him.
+
+We make a charming Fool of him, i'fackins; Times are finely altered,
+I have entirely got the better of him, and am resolved never to give
+him his Humour.
+
+_O how foolish it is in a Woman, who hath once got the Reins into her
+own Hand, ever to quit them again._
+
+After Dinner Mr. _Williams_ drank the Church _et caetera_; and smiled
+on me; when my Husband's Turn came, he drank _et caetera_ and the
+Church; for which he was very severely rebuked by Mr. _Williams_; it
+being a high Crime, it seems, to name any thing before the Church. I
+do not know what _Et cetera_ is, but I believe it is something
+concerning chusing Pallament Men; for I asked if it was not a Health
+to Mr. _Booby's_ Borough, and Mr. _Williams_ with a hearty Laugh
+answered, Yes, Yes, it is his Borough we mean.
+
+I slipt out as soon as I could, hoping Mr. _Williams_ would finish
+the Squire, as I have heard him say he could easily do, and come to
+me; but it happened quite otherwise, for in about half an Hour,
+_Booby_ came to me, and told me he had left Mr. _Williams_, the Mayor
+of his Borough, and two or three Aldermen heartily at it, and asked
+me if I would go hear _Williams_ sing a Catch, which, added he, he
+doth to a Miracle.
+
+Every Opportunity of seeing my dear _Williams_, was agreeable to me,
+which indeed I scarce had at this time; for when we returned, the
+whole Corporation were got together, and the Room was in a Cloud of
+Tobacco; Parson _Williams_ was at the upper End of the Table, and he
+hath pure round cherry Cheeks, and his Face look'd all the World to
+nothing like the Sun in a Fog. If the Sun had a Pipe in his Mouth,
+there would be no Difference.
+
+I began now to grow uneasy, apprehending I should have no more of Mr.
+_Williams's_ Company that Evening, and not at all caring for my
+Husband, I advised him to sit down and drink for his Country with the
+rest of the Company; but he refused, and desired me to give him some
+Tea; swearing nothing made him so sick, as to hear a Parcel of
+Scoundrels, roaring forth the Principles of honest Men over their
+Cups, when, says he, I know most of them are such empty Blockheads,
+that they don't know their right Hand from their left; and that
+Fellow there, who hath talked so much of _Shipping_, at the left Side
+of the Parson, in whom they all place a Confidence, if I don't take
+care, will sell them to my Adversary.
+
+I don't know why I mention this Stuff to you; for I am sure I know
+nothing about _Pollitricks_, more than Parson _Williams_ tells me;
+who says that the Court-side are in the right on't, and that every
+Christian ought to be on the same with the Bishops.
+
+When we had finished our Tea, we walked in the Garden till it was
+dark, and then my Husband proposed, instead of returning to the
+Company, (which I desired, that I might see Parson _Williams_ again,)
+to sup in another Room by our selves, which, for fear of making him
+jealous, and considering too, that Parson _Williams_ would be pretty
+far gone, I was obliged to consent to.
+
+_O! what a devilish thing it is, for a Woman to be obliged to go to
+bed to a spindle-shanked young Squire, she doth not like, when there
+is a jolly Parson in the same House she is fond of._
+
+In the Morning I grew very peevish, and in the Dumps, notwithstanding
+all he could say or do to please me. I exclaimed against the
+Priviledge of Husbands, and vowed I would not be pulled and tumbled
+about. At last he hit on the only Method, which could have brought me
+into Humour, and proposed to me a Journey to _London_, within a few
+Days. This you may easily guess pleased me; for besides the Desire
+which I have of shewing my self forth, of buying fine Cloaths,
+Jewels, Coaches, Houses, and ten thousand other fine things, Parson
+_Williams_ is, it seems, going thither too, to be _instuted_.
+
+_O! what a charming Journey I shall have; for I hope to keep the dear
+Man in the Chariot with me all the way; and that foolish Booby (for
+that is the Name Mr._ Williams _hath set him) will ride on
+Horseback._
+
+So as I shall have an Opportunity of seeing you so shortly, I think I
+will mention no more Matters to you now. O I had like to have forgot
+one very material thing; which is that it will look horribly, for a
+Lady of my Quality and Fashion, to own such a Woman as you for my
+Mother. Therefore we must meet in private only, and if you will never
+claim me, nor mention me to any one, I will always allow you what is
+very handsome. Parson _Williams_ hath greatly advised me in this; and
+says, he thinks I should do very well to lay out twenty Pounds, and
+set you up in a little Chandler's Shop: but you must remember all my
+Favours to you will depend on your Secrecy; for I am positively
+resolved, I will not be known to be your Daughter; and if you tell
+any one so, I shall deny it with all my Might, which Parson
+_Williams_ says, I may do with a safe Conscience, being now a married
+Woman. So I rest
+
+  _Your humble Servant_,
+
+  SHAMELA.
+
+_P. S._ The strangest Fancy hath enter'd into my Booby's Head, that
+can be imagined. He is resolved to have a Book made about him and me;
+he proposed it to Mr. _Williams_, and offered him a Reward for his
+Pains; but he says he never writ any thing of that kind, but will
+recommend my Husband, when he comes to Town, to a Parson _who does
+that Sort of Business for Folks_, one who can make my Husband, and
+me, and Parson _Williams_, to be all great People; for he _can make
+black white_, it seems. Well, but they say my Name is to be altered,
+Mr. _Williams_, says the first Syllabub hath too comical a Sound, so
+it is to be changed into _Pamela_; I own I can't imagine what can be
+said; for to be sure I shan't confess any of my Secrets to them, and
+so I whispered Parson _Williams_ about that, who answered me, I need
+not give my self any Trouble; for the Gentleman _who writes Lives_,
+never asked more than a few Names of his Customers, and that he made
+all the rest out of his own Head; you mistake, Child, said he, if you
+apprehend any Truths are to be delivered. So far on the contrary, if
+you had not been acquainted with the Name, you would not have known
+it to be your own History. I have seen a _Piece of his Performance_,
+where the Person, whose Life was written, could he have risen from
+the Dead again, would not have even suspected he had been aimed at,
+unless by the Title of the Book, which was superscribed with his
+Name. Well, all these Matters are strange to me, yet I can't help
+laughing, to think I shall see my self in a printed Book.
+
+     *     *     *     *     *
+
+So much for Mrs. _Shamela_, or _Pamela_, which I have taken Pains to
+transcribe from the Originals, sent down by her Mother in a Rage, at
+the Proposal in her last Letter. The Originals themselves are in my
+hands, and shall be communicated to you, if you think proper to make
+them publick; and certainly they will have their Use. The Character
+of _Shamela_, will make young Gentlemen wary how they take the most
+fatal Step both to themselves and Families, by youthful, hasty and
+improper Matches; indeed, they may assure themselves, that all Such
+Prospects of Happiness are vain and delusive, and that they sacrifice
+all the solid Comforts of their Lives, to a very transient
+Satisfaction of a Passion, which how hot so ever it be, will be soon
+cooled; and when cooled, will afford them nothing but Repentance.
+
+Can any thing be more miserable, than to be despised by the whole
+World, and that must certainly be the Consequence; to be despised by
+the Person obliged, which it is more than probable will be the
+Consequence, and of which, we see an Instance in _Shamela_; and
+lastly to despise one's self, which must be the Result of any
+Reflection on so weak and unworthy a Choice.
+
+As to the Character of Parson _Williams_, I am sorry it is a true
+one. Indeed those who do not know him, will hardly believe it so; but
+what Scandal doth it throw on the Order to have one bad Member,
+unless they endeavour to screen and protect him? In him you see a
+Picture of almost every Vice exposed in nauseous and odious Colours;
+and if a Clergyman would ask me by what Pattern he should form
+himself, I would say, Be the reverse of _Williams_: So far therefore
+he may be of use to the Clergy themselves, and though God forbid
+there should be many _Williams's_ amongst them, you and I are too
+honest to pretend, that the Body wants no Reformation.
+
+To say the Truth, I think no greater Instance of the contrary can be
+given than that which appears in your Letter. The confederating to
+cry up a nonsensical ridiculous Book, (I believe the most extensively
+so of any ever yet published,) and to be so weak and so wicked as to
+pretend to make it a Matter of Religion; whereas so far from having
+any moral Tendency, the Book is by no means innocent: For,
+
+_First_, There are many lascivious Images in it, very improper to be
+laid before the Youth of either Sex.
+
+_2dly_, Young Gentlemen are here taught, that to marry their Mother's
+Chambermaids, and to indulge the Passion of Lust, at the Expence of
+Reason and Common Sense, is an Act of Religion, Virtue, and Honour;
+and, indeed the surest Road to Happiness.
+
+_3dly_, All Chambermaids are strictly enjoyned to look out after
+their Masters; they are taught to use little Arts to that purpose:
+And lastly, are countenanced in Impertinence to their Superiors, and
+in betraying the Secrets of Families.
+
+_4thly_, In the Character of Mrs. _Jewkes_ Vice is rewarded; whence
+every Housekeeper may learn the Usefulness of pimping and bawding for
+her Master.
+
+_5thly_, In Parson _Williams_, who is represented as a faultless
+Character, we see a busy Fellow, intermeddling with the private
+Affairs of his Patron, whom he is very ungratefully forward to expose
+and condemn on every Occasion.
+
+Many more Objections might, if I had Time or Inclination, be made to
+this Book; but I apprehend, what hath been said is sufficient to
+persuade you of the use which may arise from publishing an Antidote
+to this Poison. I have therefore sent you the Copies of these Papers,
+and if you have Leisure to communicate them to the Press, I will
+transmit you the Originals, tho' I assure you, the Copies are exact.
+
+I shall only add, that there is not the least Foundation for any
+thing which is said of Lady _Davers_, or any of the other Ladies; all
+that is merely to be imputed to the Invention of the Biographer. I
+have particularly enquired after Lady _Davers_, and dont hear Mr.
+_Booby_ hath such a Relation, or that there is indeed any such Person
+existing. I am,
+
+  _Dear Sir_,
+
+  _Most faithfully and respectfully_,
+
+  _Your humble Servant_,
+
+  J. OLIVER.
+
+
+_Parson_ TICKLETEXT _to Parson_ OLIVER.
+
+  _Dear SIR_,
+
+I Have read over the History of _Shamela_, as it appears in those
+authentick Copies you favour'd me with, and am very much ashamed of
+the Character, which I was hastily prevailed on to give that Book. I
+am equally angry with the pert Jade herself, and with the Author of
+her Life: For I scarce know yet to whom I chiefly owe an Imposition,
+which hath been so general, that if Numbers could defend me from
+Shame, I should have no Reason to apprehend it.
+
+As I have your implied Leave to publish, what you so kindly sent me,
+I shall not wait for the Originals, as you assure me the Copies are
+exact, and as I am really impatient to do what I think a serviceable
+Act of Justice to the World.
+
+Finding by the End of her last Letter, that the little Hussy was in
+Town, I made it pretty much my Business to enquire after her, but
+with no effect hitherto: As soon as I succeed in this Enquiry, you
+shall hear what Discoveries I can learn. You will pardon the
+Shortness of this Letter, as you shall be troubled with a much longer
+very soon: And believe me,
+
+  _Dear Sir_,
+
+  _Your most faithful Servant_,
+
+  THO. TICKLETEXT.
+
+_P. S._ Since I writ, I have a certain Account that Mr. _Booby_ hath
+caught his Wife in bed with _Williams_; hath turned her off, and is
+prosecuting him in the spiritual Court.
+
+  _FINIS_
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Footnote 1: This was the Letter which is lost.]
+
+
+
+
+TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
+
+
+"Conny Keyber" was a pseudonym for Henry Fielding.
+
+The following printer's errors have been corrected:
+
+  genenerally for generally
+  Pamala for Pamela
+  Reprobates for Reprobate
+  advied for advised
+  duplicate word "in"
+  duplicate word "out"
+  duplicate word "the"
+
+The following unusual spellings have been retained, as they were
+probably intentional:
+
+  Aukwardness
+  brightned
+  extatick
+  Falshoods
+  Misreprsentations
+  perswaded
+  Poluteness
+  Vartue
+  wholsome
+
+
+
+
+
+
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