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+THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
+
+
+OLINDA'S ADVENTURES:
+
+Or the Amours of a Young Lady
+
+
+(1718)
+
+
+_Introduction by_ ROBERT ADAMS DAY
+
+
+PUBLICATION NUMBER 138
+
+WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
+
+UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
+
+1969
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL EDITORS
+
+William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+
+ASSOCIATE EDITOR
+
+David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+
+ADVISORY EDITORS
+
+Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_
+
+James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_
+
+Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_
+
+Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
+
+Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
+
+Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_
+
+Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+James Sutherland, _University College, London_
+
+H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
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+CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
+
+Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+
+EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
+
+Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+A standard modern history of the English novel speaks of "the appearance
+of the novel round about 1700. Nothing that preceded it in the way of
+prose fiction can explain it."[1] Though today many scholars would
+assert that "nothing" is too strong a term, just how much of the
+original fiction written under the later Stuarts could "explain" Defoe
+and Richardson? Most late seventeenth-century novels, it is true, are
+rogue biographies, scandal-chronicles, translations and imitations of
+French _nouvelles_, or short sensational romances of love, intrigue, and
+adventure with fantastic plots and wooden characters. Only occasionally
+was a tale published which showed that it was not examples of the
+novelist's craft that were wanting to inspire the achievement of a
+Defoe, but rather the sustained application of that craft over hundreds
+of pages by the unique combination of talents of a Defoe himself.
+
+Such a novel is _Olinda's Adventures_, a brief epistolary narrative of
+1693, a minor but convincing demonstration of the theory that a literary
+form such as the novel develops irregularly, by fits and starts, and of
+the truism that a superior mind can produce superior results with the
+most seemingly ungrateful materials. Of Defoe, _Olinda's Adventures_
+must appear a modest precursor indeed; but measured, as a
+realistic-domestic novel, against the English fiction of its day, it is
+surprisingly mature; and if we believe the bookseller and assign its
+authorship to a girl of fourteen, we must look to the juvenilia of Jane
+Austen for the first comparable phenomenon.
+
+_Olinda's Adventures_ seems to owe what success it had entirely to the
+bookseller Samuel Briscoe. It appeared in 1693 in the first volume of
+his epistolary miscellany _Letters of Love and Gallantry and Several
+Other Subjects_. _All Written by Ladies_, the second volume following in
+1694.[2] It may have been the nucleus of the collection, however, since
+it begins the volume, and since Briscoe states in "The Bookseller to the
+Reader" (sig. A2) that various ladies, hearing that he was going to
+print Olinda's letters, have sent in amorous correspondence of their
+own--a remark that could indicate some previous circulation in
+manuscript. Another edition (or issue) of the miscellany, with a
+slightly altered title, was advertised in 1697, but no copy of this is
+recorded.[3] Nothing further is heard of _Olinda_ for some years, but
+meanwhile Briscoe became something of a specialist in popular epistolary
+miscellanies, perhaps because he was a principal employer of Tom Brown,
+much of whose output consisted of original and translated "familiar
+letters." In 1718 Briscoe assembled a two-volume epistolary collection
+with the title _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several
+Occasions_; this collection was apparently made up of the best and most
+popular items in his miscellanies of the past twenty-five years.[4] Here
+_Olinda_ appears in much more impressive company than the anonymous
+"ladies," for the collection includes the first letter of Heloise to
+Abelard (said to be translated by L'Estrange) with actual correspondence
+and epistolary fiction by Butler, Mrs. Behn, Dennis, Otway, Etherege,
+Dryden, Tom Brown, Mrs. Mary Manley, Farquhar, Mrs. Centlivre, and other
+wits. Another edition (or issue) was advertised for W. Chetwood in 1720;
+and if the edition of 1724 ("Corrected. With Additions") is really the
+sixth, as Briscoe's title-page states, _Olinda_ must have reached a
+respectable number of readers.
+
+_Olinda_ enjoyed another distinction, nearly unique for English popular
+fiction before 1700. While by the middle of the eighteenth century
+novel-readers in France were reveling in the adventures of the English
+epigones of Pamela and Clarissa, defending their virtue or exhibiting
+their sensibility in translation, the current of literary influence
+before Defoe ran overwhelmingly in the opposite direction. _Olinda_
+anticipated the Miss Sally Sampsons of sixty years later by appearing in
+1695 in a French translation as _Les Amours d'une belle Angloise: ou la
+vie et les avantures de la jeune Olinde: Ecrites par Elle mesme en forme
+de lettres à un Chevalier de ses amis_.[5] Whether merit or mere chance
+accounted for this unusual occurrence it is impossible to say; the
+translation of _Olinda_ is a faithful one, though the text is at times
+expanded by the insertion of poems into Olinda's letters, with brief
+interpolated passages which rather awkwardly account for their presence.
+Curiously, the volume closes with a list of books printed for Briscoe,
+indicating either that the French translator would do anything to fill
+up space, or that Briscoe may have been exploring the possibilities of a
+French market for his wares.
+
+While _Olinda_ was ascribed merely to an anonymous "young lady" in the
+first edition, the editions of 1718 and 1724 gave it to "Mrs. Trotter."
+This lady, who since 1707 had been the wife of the Reverend Patrick
+Cockburn, a Suffolk curate, was then living in relative obscurity (her
+husband, having lost his living at the accession of George I, was
+precariously supporting his family by teaching), though she had enjoyed
+a certain literary success in King William's time and would later be
+heard from as a "learned lady" and writer on ethics. The fact that her
+maiden name was used, though not likely in 1718 to add very much luster
+to Briscoe's collection, and the similarities between the heroine's
+situation and Mrs. Trotter's own early life (to be discussed later) make
+Briscoe's attribution seem worthy of acceptance. It is true that if Mrs.
+Trotter wrote _Olinda_ she did it at fourteen. But she had been a child
+of astonishing precocity; she had produced a successful blank-verse
+tragedy at sixteen, and both Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Jane Austen
+were to perform similar novelistic feats (to say nothing of Daisy
+Ashford).
+
+Catherine Trotter (1679-1749)[6] was the daughter of David Trotter, a
+naval commander who died on a voyage in 1683, and Sarah Bellenden (or
+Ballenden), whose connections with the Maitland and Drummond families
+seem to have helped support her and her daughter in genteel poverty
+until she gained a pension of £20 per year under Queen Anne; Bishop
+Burnet was also her friend and patron. Catherine, a child prodigy,
+learned Latin and logic, and is said to have taught herself French; she
+extemporized verses in childhood, and at fourteen composed a poem on Mr.
+Bevil Higgons's recovery from the smallpox which is no worse than many
+"Pindarics" of the period. In 1695, however, Catherine Trotter
+established herself as a female wit with the impressive success of her
+tragedy _Agnes de Castro_, adapted from Mrs. Behn's retelling of an
+episode from Portuguese history. It was produced at the Theatre Royal in
+Drury Lane in December, with a prologue by Wycherley and with Mr. and
+Mrs. Verbruggen and Colley Cibber in the cast. _The Fatal Friendship_, a
+tragedy produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1698, had a moderate
+success; two later plays did not. But Mrs. Trotter gained the
+acquaintance of Congreve, Dryden, and Farquhar, and was well enough
+known to be lampooned in _The Female Wits_ (1704; acted 1696) along with
+Mrs. Pix and Mrs. Manley. In 1702 she turned to more serious writing,
+and her _Defence of the Essay of Humane Understanding_ and other
+treatises defending Locke's theories against the charge of materialism
+were impressive enough to earn her a flattering letter from Locke
+himself; she also corresponded with Leibniz, who analyzed her theories
+at some length. _The History of the Works of the Learned_ printed an
+essay of hers on moral obligation in 1743, and in 1747 Warburton
+contributed a preface to one of her treatises.
+
+If we are willing to admit that _Olinda_ is Mrs. Trotter's work, its
+virtues may be explained in part by seeing it as romanticized
+autobiography. Olinda, like Mrs. Trotter, is a wit and something of a
+beauty in adolescence, a fatherless child living with a prudent mother
+who is anxious to marry her off advantageously, and a solicitor of
+favors from noble or wealthy connections. Of the details of her
+character and circumstances at this time, however, no information is
+certain, and we must rely upon two presumably biased contemporary
+portraits. Mrs. Trotter gets off lightly in _The Female Wits_; she is
+represented (in "Calista," a small role) as being somewhat catty and
+pretentious, vain of her attainments in Latin and Greek (she has read
+Aristotle in the original, she says), but her moral character is not
+touched upon.[7] Another account of her early life, in Mrs. Manley's
+fictionalized autobiography and scandal-chronicle, _The Adventures of
+Rivella_ (1714), may be entirely unreliable; but its author was
+certainly well acquainted with Mrs. Trotter, and what she says of her
+life in the 1690's, what is narrated in _Olinda_, and what Mrs.
+Trotter's scholarly memoirist Thomas Birch relates are similar in
+outline, similar enough so that we may speculate that the same set of
+facts has been "improved" in _Olinda_, perhaps maliciously distorted in
+_Rivella_. Cleander, the Platonic friend of the novel, Orontes, the
+kidnapped bridegroom, and Cloridon, the inconveniently married noble
+lover, appear to be three aspects of the same person; for Mrs. Manley
+tells at length (pp. 64-71) of "Calista's" relationship with "Cleander"
+(identified in the "key" to _Rivella_ as Mrs. Trotter and Mr. Tilly).[8]
+John Tilly, the deputy warden of the Fleet prison, whose mistress Mrs.
+Manley became and remained until 1702, first met her, she says, through
+Mrs. Trotter, who sought her aid in interceding with her cousin John
+Manley, appointed chairman of a committee to look into alleged
+misdemeanors of Tilly as prison administrator. Mrs. Trotter, says Mrs.
+Manley, was a prude in public, not so in private; she was the first,
+"Cleander" said, who ever made him unfaithful to his wife. Mrs. Manley
+goes on, with a tantalizing lack of clarity (pp. 101-102):
+
+     [Calista's] Mother being in Misfortunes and indebted to him, she
+     had offered her Daughter's Security, he took it, and moreover the
+     Blessing of one Night's Lodging, which he never paid her back
+     again.... [Calista] had given herself Airs about not visiting
+     _Rivella_, now she was made the Town-Talk by her Scandalous
+     Intreague with _Cleander_.
+
+Whatever the truth about Mrs. Trotter's adolescent amours may have been,
+or whether they have any connection with Olinda's fictional ones, must
+remain a matter for speculation; but the artistic merits of _Olinda_ are
+in no such doubt. Although technically it may be called an epistolary
+novel, its author is no Richardson in marshalling the strategies of the
+epistolary technique. Nevertheless, although it is actually a fictional
+autobiography divided somewhat arbitrarily into "letters," the
+postponement of the letter to Cloridon until the end, the introduction
+of what might be called a subplot as Olinda tries to promote Cleander's
+courtship of Ambrisia and notes its progress, the breaking off of the
+letters at moments of (mild) suspense, the bringing up of the action to
+an uncompleted present, all these show an awareness of fictional
+mechanics that is far from elementary. Indeed, a contemporary critic
+might go so far as to see in the novel's conclusion an anticipation of
+the "open-ended" realism of plotting so much applauded at present; for
+though Orontes has been got out of the way, Olinda has not yet been
+rewarded with Cloridon's hand by a similarly happy turn of fate, and
+must patiently await the demise of his inconvenient wife as anyone
+outside of melodrama might have to do. The contretemps and
+misunderstandings, the trick played on Olinda with regard to Cloridon's
+fidelity and her subsequent undeceiving, the closet-scene and its
+embarrassments, may smack of the hackneyed devices of stage comedy, but
+they are not clumsily handled, and they never make emotional mountains
+out of molehills.
+
+Perhaps the most salient qualities of _Olinda_, in contrast to the
+fiction of its day, are restraint and control. With the exception of the
+rather ridiculous way in which the complications are resolved at the end
+(Orontes's sequestration and death from smallpox), everything in the
+novel is planned and motivated with some care. Inclinations develop
+slowly and believably; the springs of action, barring a few not very
+fantastic coincidences and accidents, are anti-romantic--almost too much
+so. Indeed, such criteria of the "modern novel" as those proposed by Ian
+Watt[9] are all modestly but adequately met. Most important, the
+situation and behavior of the heroine, her values, and the world in
+which she lives are (but for their sketchy development) what a reader of
+Jane Austen might take for granted, yet are all but unique before 1740.
+
+Here is a middle-class heroine who is fully as moral as Pamela, but with
+a wry sense of humor; she defers to her mother as a matter of course
+when marriage is in question, yet would willingly evade parental
+decrees; she is capable of Moll Flanders's examinations of motive, yet
+sees through her own hypocrisies; she lives in London in reduced
+circumstances and agrees to a marriage of convenience although tempted
+to engage in a dashing adultery; and she endures the onset of both love
+and jealousy without melodramatic or sentimental posturings.
+
+Other technical achievements of _Olinda_ aside, the portrait of the
+heroine as she reveals herself to her confidant is the novel's most
+significant feature. A fictional heroine of this early date who can be
+sententious without being tedious, who is moderately and believably
+witty, who is courted by a goldsmith (even though, conformably to the
+times, he is named Berontus) rather than a prince borrowed from
+_Astrée_, and who satirizes herself soberly for scorning him, who meets
+her ideal lover with a business letter rather than in a shipwreck, and
+who level-headedly fends him off because he is both married and a
+would-be philanderer, is a rarity indeed.
+
+_Olinda_ commends itself to the student of English literary history
+principally for two reasons: because it so ably anticipates in embryo so
+many features which the English domestic and realistic novel would
+develop in its age of maturity and popularity, and because we do not yet
+understand, and need to investigate, the cultural factors--literary,
+social, and economic--which prevented the kind of achievement it
+represents from being duplicated with any frequency for several decades.
+
+  Queens College,
+  City University of New York
+
+
+
+
+NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
+
+
+1. Walter Allen, _The English Novel_ (New York, 1968), p. 4.
+
+2. Advertised in the _Term Catalogues_, Trinity Term, 1693 (II, 466);
+Wing L1784, L1785.
+
+3. It is listed in Harold C. Binkley, "Letter Writing in English
+Literature" (unpublished Harvard dissertation, 1923).
+
+4. They included _Familiar Letters [of] Rochester_ (2 vols., 1697),
+_Familiar and Courtly Letters [of] Voiture_ (2 vols., 1700), _A Pacquet
+from Will's_ (2nd ed., 1705), _The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown_ (2-4
+vols., 1707--), and _The Lady's Pacquet of Letters_ (1710). Briscoe was
+not in every case the printer of the first edition.
+
+5. "A Cologne. Chez *****. MDCXCV." A copy of the volume is in the
+Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal in Paris.
+
+6. See DNB, _s. v._ "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "Catharine
+Trotter, the First of the Bluestockings," _Fortnightly Review_, N. S.,
+No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "Catherine
+Trotter--'the Scots Sappho,'" _Scots Magazine_, XXXIII (1940), 305-314.
+The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's _The Works
+of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn_ (2 vols., 1751), including letters and a
+prefatory biography.
+
+7. The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society's
+Publication No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by Lucyle
+Hook.
+
+8. Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B.
+Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," _MP_, XXXIII
+(1935-36), 270-271, for further details.
+
+9. _The Rise of the Novel_ (London, 1957), Chapter I.
+
+
+
+
+BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
+
+
+The text of this facsimile of _Olinda's Adventures_ (from the second
+volume of _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions_
+[1718]) is published with the permission of the Trustees of the Newberry
+Library. The unique recorded copy (in the Bodleian Library) of the
+duodecimo first edition of 1693 is too small and too poorly printed to
+be reproduced in the present series.
+
+
+
+
+    The SECOND VOLUME
+
+      OF
+
+    _Familiar Letters_
+
+      OF
+
+    =LOVE, GALLANTRY=
+
+    And several OCCASIONS,
+
+      BY THE
+
+    WITS _of the Last and Present Age_.
+
+    With the best of _VOITURE_'s Letters, Translated
+    by Mr. DRYDEN and Mr. T. BROWN.
+
+    ALSO THE
+
+    REMAINS
+
+      Of the Celebrated
+
+    Mr. =T. BROWN;=
+
+      BEING
+
+    LETTERS, POEMS and DIALOGUES
+    on the TIMES, not Printed in his
+    WORKS.
+
+    LONDON,
+
+    Printed for =SAM. BRISCOE.= 1718.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+  _Olinda's_ Adventures:
+
+  OR THE AMOURS
+
+  Of a Young LADY.
+
+By _Mrs._ TROTTER.
+
+LETTER I.
+
+
+  _Dear Cleander_,
+
+I Hope I need not tell you how uneasie this tedious Absence makes me;
+for I must confess as troublesome as I find it, and as much as I Value
+you, I can't but wish you may be able to guess at it by what you suffer
+your self: A strange Effect of the highest degree of Friendship; for if
+I had less for you, I shou'd not so earnestly desire to hear you are in
+Pain; but such Contradictions are no Mysteries to you, who understand
+so well the little Niceties of Friendship. That you may see I study
+nothing more in this Solitude than to oblige you; I've resolv'd to
+employ most part of my time in complying with that Request you've often
+made me, of giving you a particular account of all that has happen'd to
+me in my Life; tho' I fear I shall lose part of that Esteem which you
+have hitherto preserved for me, by acquainting you with some Passages of
+it, which yet I hope have nothing in 'em so ill, that the kindness of a
+Friend mayn't find out something in the Circumstances of the Story to
+Excuse: For tho' perhaps I have not always been so nicely cautious as a
+Woman in strictness ought, I have never gone beyond the bounds of solid
+Virtue. To put all to the hazard then, I will give you a faithful
+Account of all my Weaknesses. My Father dying, left me when I was very
+young, to the Tuition of a Mother, who as you know is qualify'd for such
+a Charge equal to any of her Sex; and she indeed perform'd her part as
+well as her small Fortune wou'd permit her, which was scarce sufficient
+to maintain her, in that Rank her Birth had placed her. However, she
+gave me all the Education that was necessary; but I believe you'll
+excuse me if I pass over all that occurr'd till I was Thirteen, for
+about that time I began to fancy my self a Woman, and the more to
+perswade me to it, I happen'd to be acquainted with a Gentleman whose
+Name was _Licydon_, who the first or second time I saw him, seem'd to
+have so much confidence in me, that he told me a long story of his Love,
+and ever after shew'd me all the Letters he either Writ to, or received
+from his Mistress: This you must think did not a little please me. and I
+thought my self as Wise as the Gravest Politician, when he ask'd my
+Advice in any of his Affairs, especially when I heard him commended by
+many for a Man of great Parts. One day that we were by our selves, we
+fell into a Discourse of Womens making Love; he Argu'd that 'twas very
+unjust to deprive 'em of the satisfaction of discovering a Passion,
+which they were as much subject to as Men: I said as much against him as
+I cou'd, but he had more dexterity to manage his Argument than I; so
+that I was easily brought to agree with him; but said 'twas well that
+custom was observ'd, since the complaisance which was paid by their Sex
+to ours, would sometimes oblige 'em to comply contrary to their
+Inclination; for I cou'd not imagine how they cou'd civily refuse a
+Lady's Intreaties. He told me if I wou'd write a Declaration of Love to
+him, he wou'd shew me how it might be Answer'd with a great deal of
+Respect, without any Love. I consented to do it, and accordingly did the
+next day, and he return'd me an Answer which satisfied me: This, tho' it
+may seem a trivial thing, you will find by the sequel, had like to have
+produc'd but ill Effects. Some time after this, he brought a Friend of
+his to Visit us, who was of a good Family; but according to the
+_English_ custom of breeding the younger Sons to Trades; he was a
+Goldsmith, but a great _Beaux_, and one who seem'd to have a Soul above
+his calling: He ask'd _Licydon_ if he had any pretensions to me, which
+when he assur'd him he had not, he told him he was very glad he had not
+a Rival in a Friend; for he was hugely smitten, and shou'd need his
+Assistance in his design; for he had observ'd such an intimacy between
+us, as gave him Reason to think he had great influence over me; and he
+was sure he wou'd not deny him, if he was not my Lover. _Licydon_
+assur'd him he had only a Friendship for me, and that he wou'd use all
+his Credit with me to perswade me to receive all His Addresses
+favourably; which he did as soon as he had an opportunity. He said all
+of him that he could imagine most engaging, and especially of the
+Violence of his Passion. I was well enough pleas'd with the Love, tho'
+not with the Lover; for 'tis natural at that unthinking Age to covet a
+croud of Admirers, tho' we despise them: But I believe I need not
+confine that Vanity to Youth, many of our Sex are troubled with it, when
+one wou'd think they were Old enough to be sensible of the Folly, and
+inconvenience of being continually Courted, and haunted by Men they have
+an indifference, or perhaps an aversion for For my part I think there is
+no greater Torment; but I was of another Opinion then, and therefore
+Rally'd at the Love, and seem'd not to blelieve it; which I warrant you
+gave great Encouragement to my new Lover, when he heard of it; for 'tis
+a great Sign one wou'd be convinc'd. So I'd best prepare my self for an
+Attack, which I did not expect long: It was begun by a _Billet Doux_,
+which came first to my Mother's Hands; and when she gave it me, she
+ask'd what Answer I wou'd return. I told her I was wholly to be Govern'd
+by her; but if I was to follow my own inclination I wou'd not answer it
+at all: My Mother reply'd, she thought it fit I shou'd Answer it; for
+she believ'd I cou'd have no aversion to him, and she did not think it
+an ill Match, considering my Circumstances. Then I desir'd her to indite
+a Letter for me, for I saw well enough I shou'd not please her. She gave
+me a Copy of one, that without saying any thing that was kind, gave him
+cause enough to despair; but I cou'd not dissemble my Looks and Actions,
+in which he observ'd so much Coldness, that tho' several Letters pass'd
+between us, that wou'd have given hopes to a Man the least apt to
+presume; he was often half an hour with me alone, without speaking one
+Word to me. At last he complain'd to _Licydon_ of the strange
+contradictions in what I did, and what I Writ; for whenever he begun to
+speak to me of his Love, I check'd him with such severe Looks, and
+turn'd the Discourse in such a manner, that he durst proceed no further,
+tho' my Letters seem'd much to his Advantage. _Licydon_ perswaded him
+(as perhaps he thought himself) that 'twas only my Modesty, and that
+perhaps I shou'd be more emboldned, if he cou'd get my Mother's consent
+to his Proposals. _Berontus_, for that was his Name, was as well
+satisfy'd with this, as if I had told him so my self; and away goes he
+immediately to my Mother, and tells her he's stark staring mad in Love
+with her Daughter: The next thing they talk of is Joynture, and
+Settlements, _&c._ and in fine they agree; So I am call'd for, and
+commanded to look upon this Spark as one that must shortly be my
+Husband; to give us the more freedom, my Mother leaves us together.
+'Well, Madam, (says he) I have no Opposites to struggle with, your
+Mother has given me her consent, and you have given me hopes that you
+will not refuse me yours. What shou'd I do in this perplexity? I had a
+firm Resolution never to Marry him; but I found my Mother so much set
+upon it, that I durst not let it be known; besides, I had engag'd my
+self so far in Obedience to her, that I did not know how to come off;
+but for the present I wou'd be whimsical, and take time to consider what
+I shou'd do hereafter. So I put on a pet, and said, _Berontus_, I don't
+know what advantage you think you have more than before; but I'm sure a
+Lover wou'd have found another way of Courting his Mistress, than by her
+Mother; and it may be you'll find your self never the nearer my Heart
+for having gain'd her: I hate a Man that will depend upon any other for
+my Favour than my self. 'Cruel Creature, _says he_, what pleasure do you
+take in tormenting me? You know that I love you with the greatest
+respect imaginable, and that I can't be happy but by you alone. I never
+had Recourse to your Mother till you had encourag'd me, and gave me
+leave to say it; your usage of me is very unjust. I knew well enough he
+was in the Right; but I wou'd not know it: So that we parted both much
+dissatisfied. How his Thoughts were employ'd I can't pretend to tell
+you; but I was continually contriving how to get out of this troublesome
+Affair. I cou'd find no way but to tell him sincerely, that all that I
+had writ in his favour was by constraint; that I was too young to think
+of Love, or Marriage, and so trust to his Generosity; and prevail with
+him, if possible, to let it fall of his side. The first time I had an
+opportunity of putting my design in Execution, I thought the poor Lover
+wou'd never have liv'd to see me beyond those Years which serv'd for a
+pretence for my refusal; but he was Wise enough to baulk me, 'If, _says
+he_ (after he was come out of his Dumps; for he was a quarter of an hour
+without saying any thing. You see he was much given to silence) 'If I
+did not imagine it your Hate that only study'd an Excuse, I shou'd wait
+with a great deal of satisfaction, till you were pleas'd to make me
+happy: But as it is, I shall die a thousand times with fear, that some
+other more happy in your inclinations than I, will rob me of you for
+ever. He said in fine, abundance of fine things, to perswade me to
+engage my self to him; but I wou'd not consent to it; and all I could
+say to him, was as little prevalent to make him desist his suit. He
+wou'd wait the Patriarch's Prenticeship rather than lose his Angel:
+Would it not be a sad Business if he should lose her after all? But I am
+afraid he's like, for her thoughts cannot be brought so low; they towre
+a little above his Shop, perhaps too high for her Fortune; but she's
+something too young to consider that, or to prefer her Interest to her
+Humour. But to go on with my Story; my Mother was well enough satisfied
+to have the Match delay'd; so that I thought I had nothing to do for a
+Year or two, but to wish some Accident might intervene to hinder it. But
+it was not long before a Servant we had in the House found me other
+Employment; I had complain'd of some Negligences she had been guilty of,
+when my Mother was out of Town, which were occasion'd by a fondness she
+had for one that waited upon _Licydon_: Upon which she had been like to
+be turn'd away, and being of a revengeful Spirit, she cou'd never
+forgive it. She had observ'd, that _Licydon_ often gave me, and I him,
+Letters in private; for when he had no other opportunity, he us'd to
+give me those he sent, or receiv'd from his Mistress, as we were taking
+leave, when I conducted him to the Door; which I often did, whilst my
+Mother was entertaining other Company; and I return'd 'em when I saw him
+again. This malicious Wench hoping to find something in 'em that might
+prejudice me, to _Licydon_'s Man (over whom it seems she had a great
+Influence) that she heard his Master was a great Poet, and that she had
+a great mind to see some of his Works, if he could contrive to let her
+into his Closet when he was abroad: The Servant who suspected nothing,
+promis'd her he wou'd let her know the first time his Master left his
+Key, which he very seldom did. He kept his Word with her, and after she
+had look'd over all his Papers, at last she found that Letter which I
+spoke of at the beginning. She knew my Hand well enough, and no doubt
+with Joy, put it into her Pocket, without being perceiv'd by the Fellow;
+and to lose no time, went presently to _Berontus_; to whom she said,
+That she was extreamly concern'd to see him deceiv'd by two that he
+rely'd so much upon, as her young Mistress and _Licydon_: And therefore
+she could not forbear telling him, that she had discover'd an Intrigue
+between 'em, and that they were so familiar, that if they were not
+Married already, she was sure they wou'd be very suddenly; with
+abundance of Circumstances of her own Invention, to make the Story more
+plausible. He did not believe her at first; but when she show'd him the
+Letter, it put him beyond doubt; so that after he had given her his
+Word, whatever Measures he took, not to discover her, she went away very
+well pleas'd, that she had depriv'd me of a Husband, and receiv'd a good
+Reward for it. _Berontus_ did not give his Rage and Grief leave to
+abate; but in the height of both, writ a Letter to _Licydon_, and
+another to me. You can't imagine how much I was surprized when I read
+it, and found it was a Chalenge, (for in that Confusion he had mistaken
+the Direction) to one whom he accus'd of betraying him in what was
+dearer to him than his Life: I cou'd not guess who it was design'd for,
+till _Licydon_ came in, and show'd me a Letter he had just receiv'd,
+which he believ'd was for me; and desir'd me to tell him who that happy
+Man was _Berontus_ complain'd so much of. I saw plainly then he was
+jealous of _Licydon_; but was not able to Divine the Cause: He gave me
+the Letter which contain'd these Words;
+
+_Wou'd to Heaven you had told me Truth, when you said you were too young
+to think of Love; you have thought of it too much_ Olinda, _for my
+quiet; but you were born to Torment me. It is my Fate, why do I complain
+of you? Pity me, if I fall by my happy Rivals Hand, and if you can,
+forgive me if I survive him. This is the last time I design to trouble
+you: I wish he may be more faithful to you than he has been to me:
+Adieu, Madam, pity the unfortunate_ Berontus.
+
+The Letter seem'd so full of Distraction, that I cou'd not chuse but
+pity him; for I really thought him Mad: But I did not think fit to shew
+_Licydon_ that which was design'd for him. When he was gone I sent for
+_Berontus_, but he refus'd to come, and 'twas with much ado after three
+or four times sending he was prevail'd with. I told him by what means I
+had seen both his Letters; but that they appear'd so great Mysteries to
+me, that I sent for him to explain 'em. 'Twas long before he wou'd let
+me know the Cause of his suspicions; but I was so importunate, that at
+last he show'd me the Love Letter I had writ to _Licydon_: Can I have a
+greater Proof than this, says he? I confess, reply'd I, you have Reason
+to think as you do; but you are much deceiv'd; and then I told him upon
+what occasion it was writ: I saw very well he did not believe me, and I
+knew not how to convince him, unless I cou'd find _Licydon_'s Answer,
+which at least wou'd clear him. I found it by good Fortune, and brought
+it to _Berontus_. Read this, said I, and you'll see whether it be true,
+that I Writ to _Licydon_ in earnest: You have nothing to accuse him of.
+After he had read it, he cry'd out in a violent manner, I have wrong'd
+the innocent _Olinda_, and I deserve to be hated by her for ever. Be not
+so transported I return'd coldly enough, I may love _Licydon_, tho' he
+be so indifferent: The Postscript fully clears you, reply'd _Berontus_,
+and makes me not dare to ask you to forgive me: Upon which I took it,
+and read these Words, which I had quite forgot. _I did not think one
+cou'd write so prettily of Love, and be so insensible of it; How happy
+wou'd that Man be, that shou'd receive such a one dictated by your
+Heart, as well as Hand._ I am sure none cou'd return such an Answer to
+_Olinda_. This Complement did me so much Kindness, that one wou'd think
+I shou'd be a better Friend to 'em than you know I am. _Berontus_ left
+me almost as angry at himself, as he was before at us; and did not come
+near me for some time after. When I told _Licydon_ what had pass'd
+between us, he was amaz'd: He Examin'd his Man, who had been in the
+Chamber, who confess'd the Truth; and our Servant, when she was tax'd
+with it, hardly deny'd it; and thus the whole Matter was discover'd;
+which had it not been for a happy Mistake, had probably cost one, or
+both of them, their Lives, and me my Honour. Two days after _Licydon_
+was Married, and so our Acquaintance broke off; for tho' his Wife came
+to see me and often press'd me to keep a Correspondence with her; I
+never did, for I knew she had been very Jealous of me before she
+Marry'd, and I would not hazard the reviving it. _Berontus_ easily
+obtain'd his Pardon of me (for you know I'm very good Natur'd) and so he
+continu'd to Visit me, taking all the pains he could to please me,
+without any thing remarkable happening, till three Monthes after, his
+Elder Brother, who had been at his Travels, and was reported to be dead,
+return'd; so that he was no longer able to keep the Conditions he had
+made with my Mother; for he had nothing to live upon but his Trade;
+which I afterwards heard he neglected very much, and took to that usual
+remedy of Cares, Drinking: He said it was to cure his Grief for the loss
+of his Mistress, and truly that is to be lamented, when the loss of a
+good Estate is the Cause of it. However he is comforted for both now,
+and Married to a Woman with a great Fortune. I was very glad to be rid
+of my Lover, tho' I was sorry 'twas by his misfortune.
+
+Thus _Cleander_, you have an account of the first Adventures of my Life;
+which made me early know some uneasie Hours: By the next Post I'll
+acquaint you with a Catalogue of Lovers (that is, they were my _En
+passant_, in taking their Rounds, and serv'd better to divert me than
+the most Romantick Constancy, without giving themselves, or me any
+trouble) but it's indeed time to make an end. Adieu my Friend, think of
+me always, and, Write as often as you can to _Olinda_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _M. V^{dr} Gucht Sculp_
+
+_Olinda_.
+
+_Vol. 2_ _pag. 136_]
+
+
+
+
+LETTER V.
+
+
+TO proceed in Order to my Relation, I must begin with one, who in
+respect of his Years as well as the time in which I knew him, demands
+the Pre-eminence. He was a _Dutch_ Coll. about Threescore; Don't you
+think one of his Country and Years, will make a pretty Lover? But Old as
+he was, he had a Mistress in the House with him. I was younger than she,
+and I believe I may say, without Vanity, I had some other Advantages
+over her; so that the Old Spark had a Month's mind to me; and I, partly
+to plague her, and partly to divert my self, received all his Addresses
+with a great deal of complaisance. I cou'd perceive her fret within her
+self, tho she durst not shew it. She was in great fear of losing him;
+for the Man's Money had such Charms as aton'd for his want of 'em, tho'
+he was Ugliness in perfection; (if that ben't Nonsense) and 'twas the
+best Jest in the World to me, to see him squint an Amorous Glance upon
+me with one Eye, whilst 'tother was watching whether she took Notice of
+him; for we Lodg'd in one House together; so that I cou'd not avoid
+often being with them both, nor indeed did I endeavour it; for I took a
+malicious pleasure in laughing at their Follies: Since there's nothing
+so ridiculous as an Antiquated Lover, who has the Vanity to believe he
+is belov'd, and a Jealous Woman, who has not Discretion enough to hide
+it. That I might be sufficiently entertain'd with both, one day I began
+a Discourse of Young and old Lovers, preferring the last as more
+Constant, more Fond, and more Solid than the First: He Smil'd, and took
+me by the Hand, and gave me a thousand Commendations for the Wisdom of
+my choice; Nay, and so far forgot himself, that he apply'd it to
+himself, and said such passionate things as wou'd have been extravagant
+from a young Fellow. She with a great deal of Heat contradicted all I
+had said, and told all the Impertinences and Inconveniences one finds in
+an Old Man (which she experimentally knew better than I) without
+considering how far it touch'd him, she was so earnest against me. This
+made him so Angry, and her so out of Countenance when she reflected so
+upon what she had said, that I was never better diverted: So she did not
+know what Excuse to make for her self; and in fine, the Dispute grew so
+high, that at last they parted. Upon this the Coll. was hotter upon me
+than ever; he pester'd me continually with his Visits, and the Brute so
+little understood my Raillery, that he pretended an Interest in me, and
+wou'd check me when he saw any body younger than himself with me; but I
+gave him such Answers, that he did not know what to make of me. When he
+had Orders for _Flanders_, he told me I must prepare my self to go with
+him, and I should live as great and happy as a Queen; I said I wou'd go
+withal my Heart, upon Condition his Son should be always with us: The
+Old Man started, my Son, Child, what would you do with him? I think he
+is fitter company for me than you, says I, and so I left him, so
+asham'd, that he shunn'd seeing me ever after. He e'en went to
+_Flanders_ without me, and vow'd, young as he was, he wou'd never have
+any thing to do with Woman more. Thus I was rid of my Old Impertinent,
+whose place was soon supply'd by one of those gay youths who never wait
+for the slow gifts of pity, but Ravish little Favours from us, as if
+they were their due; who make it impossible for us to think it a Crime
+to give what they ask with so much boldness; and who are always
+endeavouring to divert her they design to please. He Courted me with
+Balls, Musick, and Entertainments, and in the midst of 'em wou'd now and
+then whisper some pretty Love Maggots. I was first acquainted with him
+at a Relations of mine at _Greenwich_: He was an Officer in the Army,
+and was then in the Camp upon _Black-Heath_; and being very well known
+in the House where I was, he came often there. He had heard several
+things of me to my Advantage, (for Fame generally flatters or detracts)
+as, that I sung well, was Handsom, and so forth: And I was told, that he
+was very well accomplish'd, and the Neatest, Prettiest, Gentilest young
+fellow that was to be seen in the whole Army: So that we had both a
+great desire to see one another, and were very well acquainted the first
+time we met: He told me he had a violent Passion for me, and he did not
+doubt but I had a little Love for him; he came to see me every Day
+whilst I was there; carried me to all the Diversions that were to be had
+about the Country; and when I was going to _London_, he told me he would
+soon follow me: But as soon as you come to Town, Faith _Olinda_, you
+shall Write to me, as you hope to see me again; for I can't live without
+hearing you Arriv'd safe. So I Writ a thousand little mad things, and
+he Answer'd me at the same Rate, only a great deal of Airy Love mingled
+with it. The following Week he came to see me, and from that day I was
+never suffered to rest for one frolick or other: All the time he staid,
+I liv'd a pleasant sort of a Life, till he went to Fight abroad, and got
+two or three new Mistresses to divert, for those sort of Men never
+remember the Absent; their Love never enters the Heart, nor do they
+often gain ours; they seldom fail to please indeed, and they force us to
+think of 'em sometimes whether we will or not; but they are neither
+Discreet, nor Constant enough to go any further: I suppose he forgot me
+as soon as he left me, and I was not much behindhand with him. After he
+was gone, I had scarce a breathing time before another of his
+Profession, more serious, and more designing, succeeded him: He had a
+good Estate, and pass'd in the World for a Man of Honour, and therefore
+was Received by my Mother favourably enough. I neither lik'd, nor
+dislick'd him; but treated him with Civility, till I found out that his
+designs were not very Honourable; and then I thought it time to alter my
+Behaviour: I forbid him to see me, and when he came to our Lodgings, I
+was deny'd to him, tho' he knew I was at home; upon which he left off
+coming, and when some of his Comrades ask'd him the Reason, he told
+them, he knew me too well, and that he did not think a Creature so young
+cou'd be so Lew'd. Observe, my Friend, how unhappy Women are, who are
+thus expos'd to lose either their Virtue, or their Honour; if I had
+comply'd with him, perhaps none wou'd have been more careful of my Fame
+than he: But how much my Choice is to be preferr'd, none but those who
+have experienced the unexpressible satisfaction it gives can know. I
+heard of it with a great deal of indifference, and did not so much as
+hate the Author of the scandal. The next in waiting was a _French
+Beaux_: He had a great stock of Wit, but more Vanity, a mighty
+Flatterer, and one who took much pains to perswade credulous Women that
+he lov'd them; and if he succeeded, he always forsook 'em, and sometimes
+gratify'd his Vanity to their Cost, who had been indiscreet enough to
+give him occasion. He laid his Baits to catch me, he Vow'd, and Swore,
+and Danc'd, and Sung eternally by turns; but I was too wary to be
+caught, tho' he made me a hundred Protestations, I was the only Woman he
+ever did, or ever cou'd Love; follow'd me where ever I went, and in
+spight of the greatest Rigour I cou'd use, wou'd not forbear haunting
+me. I did not know how to free my self from the Impertinence of this
+Fop; but I thought if I cou'd convince him of one Act of Inconstancy, he
+wou'd not have the Confidence to trouble me any more: I had many
+contrivances in Order to it, but at last I fix'd upon one that was
+probable enough to take with one of his Humour. I Writ a Letter
+(disguising my Hand) as from a Woman extreamly in Love with him, and
+desir'd him to tell me sincerely whither he was engaged or not; for I
+was too just to rob any Woman of his Heart, and too nice to be content
+with a part of it. I told him if he was free, I wou'd meet him, the next
+day at the Bird-Cage in the Park: He sent a very obliging answer to the
+unknown Lady; and said, he was passionately in Love with her Wit; that
+if her Beauty were Answerable, he must be undone; however 'twould be
+such a pleasing Ruin, that he waited with the highest impatience for the
+appointed hour, when he might assure her by word of Mouth, his Heart was
+wholly at her dispose. Just as I had done Reading this Letter he came
+in, and for a Proof of his Constancy, shew'd me that which I had sent
+him, with another, which he said was the Answer he design'd to send;
+wherein he told her, he was already so deeply in Love, 'twas impossible
+for him to change; with abundance of fine things of the Person he
+Lov'd. This was good sport for me, and I had much ado to keep my
+Countenance; I us'd all my Rhetorick to perswade him to stay with me; a
+thing I had never desir'd of him before, and now 'twas in vain: He
+pretended earnest business, and went long before the Hour, he was so
+very impatient. When he was gone, I chang'd my Clothes, took a Lady with
+me, who was Privy to the Affair, and went to the aforesaid Place. We
+were in Masks, and it being duskish, he did not know us; but after I had
+banter'd him for some time, I discover'd my self: I cannot describe to
+you the different Passions that affected him; sometimes he was in a Rage
+with me for putting such a Deceit upon him, sometimes he wou'd frame
+weak Excuses for what he had done, and sometimes he was not able to
+speak at all for Grief, that he was not only disappointed of a new
+Mistress, but had lost all hopes of gaining one he had Courted so long,
+with so much Assiduity. I went home, as well pleas'd with losing one, as
+I have sometimes been with making a Conquest, in full hopes I shou'd be
+plagued with him no more, and I was not deceiv'd. You see, _Cleander_,
+what a Miscellany of Lovers, if I may call 'em so, I have had, all of
+different humours, but none that had found out the Secret to please me:
+They have done enough if they contribute any thing to your diversion,
+and made a sufficient Recompence for all their former Impertinence to
+
+  _Your faithful Friend_
+
+    Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER III.
+
+
+  _My Friend_,
+
+THE Reflections you made upon my two last are so Just, so Profitable,
+and so Pleasant, that thro' them I see the Author's great Capacity, that
+can make so good use of such little things; and while I read, bless my
+kind Fate that made you my Friend, when the Good and Wise are so scarce;
+and wonder how so particular a Blessing came to be my Lot; which more
+than doubly satisfies for all I suffer'd by _Clarinda_'s falseness. I
+believe you think it strange I never mention'd her, in any of the
+Passages of my Life, since it was before many that I have told you of,
+that I knew and lov'd her: But I could not have Nam'd her without some
+Marks of kindness, that I either show'd, or receiv'd from her, which I
+would willingly forget, and cou'd not now speak of her, but when I put
+your Friendship in compensation with her Ingratitude. But since I am
+fall'n upon this Subject, I will let you know a little better than you
+do, the only Woman that I ever trusted, not with any Secret, for you see
+I then had none of consequence; but with my Love, and in that she
+betray'd me. Her Sister often told me, she was sorry to see so sincere a
+Friendship bestow'd upon one that knew so little how to Value it; that
+_Clarinda_ was the same to all, which she pretended to be only for me:
+That she was always fondest of her new acquaintance, and wou'd
+Sacrifice, or Ridicule the Old, the better to Caress 'em: But I knew
+there had been some Quarrels betwixt them, and therefore wou'd not
+believe it, till I found it too true; and then my partiality for her,
+chang'd into as great an Error on the other hand, for I involv'd the
+whole Sex in her Faults, and with _Aristotle_ (I hope one may condemn
+ones self with _Aristotle_) Repented that I had ever Trusted a Woman. I
+don't know whether I forgot I was one, or whither I had the Vanity to
+think my self more perfect than the rest; but I resolv'd none of the Sex
+was capable of Friendship; and continu'd in that Opinion till I knew
+_Ambrisia_, who (if one may judge by the Rule of Contraries, convinces
+me of injustice) for she is just _Clarinda_'s Antipodes. _Clarinda_
+loves new Faces, and professes a particular kindness at first sight;
+_Ambrisia_ is a long time before she goes beyond Civility, and never
+does but to those whom she has well observ'd, and found 'em Worthy:
+_Clarinda_ will Rail at one Friend to engage another: _Ambrisia_ cant
+hear an innocent person, tho' her Enemy, accus'd without defending 'em:
+_Clarinda_ will be one day fond to extravagance, and the next as
+indifferent for the same person: _Ambrisia_ is always the same, and
+where once she loves, she never changes: _Clarinda_ is easily angry:
+_Ambrisia_ is perhaps too mild. _Clarinda_ has Wit indeed, but 'tis not
+temper'd by Judgment, so that it makes her often do, and say a hundred
+things that call her discretion in question: _Ambrisia_ has a Solid and
+piercing Judgment, one wou'd thing all she says was the Result of
+premeditation, she speaks such Wise and such surprizing things, and yet
+her Answers are so ready, that one wou'd Swear she did not think at all;
+her Actions are always most regular; I believe she never cou'd accuse
+her self of an imprudent one. This is a true and unprejudic'd Character
+of both; and if you wonder how I cou'd love a Woman with such gross
+Faults, I must tell you, some of them I did not know then; some I
+excus'd, for I did not expect perfection, and some my partial kindness
+made me cover with the Name of some Neighbouring Virtue. You know,
+_Ambrisia_ has as great advantages of _Clarinda_ in Body as in Mind: I
+have often heard you praise her outward Beauty, and now I have shew'd
+you the Beauties of her Soul, tho' they are far greater than I can
+express, give me leave to wish her yours. Forgive me if I mingle a
+little self-Interest in my wishes for you, I can't resist a thought of
+joy for the hopes of finding two Noble Friends in one, by such a happy
+Union: Think of it _Cleander_; you only deserve one another. I know you
+will bid me take your advice, and shew you the way; but I shall tell you
+things that will convince you, my refusal is reasonable. I was just
+fifteen years old when a particular Friend of my Mothers buried her
+Husband; whose Grief was so great, that my Mother durst hardly leave
+her; she staid with her Night and Day, and manag'd all her Affairs for
+her. She went to _Cloridon_'s, who had had a Friendship for the
+Deceas'd; (for they were forc'd to make use of that, and his Authority
+in a business, wherein the Widdow had lik'd to be wrong'd) but Men of
+his Quality are not always at Leisure, and must be waited on; so that
+tho' my Mother went two or three times, she did not see him, and having
+other Affairs of her own, and her Friends in hand, besides being oblig'd
+to be much with her, she cou'd not Watch his Hours: However 'twas a
+thing of too great consequence to be neglected: So she Writ a Letter to
+him, and Order'd me to carry it, and to deliver it into his own Hand. I
+went often to his Lodgings before I cou'd speak with him, and carry'd
+_Clarinda_ with me: At last I was appointed an hour when I shou'd
+certainly meet with him, and she happen'd to be so engag'd, she cou'd
+not possibly go with me. I knew no body else I cou'd use so much freedom
+with, and was forc'd to go alone. I did not wait long before I was
+admitted, and he approach'd me with that awful Majesty which is peculiar
+to him; and that commands respect from all that see him. Whilst he he
+held the Letter I gave him, I look'd at him sometimes; but still I met
+his Eyes, so that I cou'd not view him well, tho' I saw enough to think
+him the Charming'st Man in the World: He ask'd my Name, and whose
+Daughter I was? which when I told him, he said he knew my Father very
+well; that he was a Worthy Man, and that for his sake he wou'd do any
+thing for me that lay within his Power. I thank'd him, tho' I took it
+for a Courtier's Complement, and desir'd an Answer to the business I
+came about. _I will go my self instantly_, says he, _to see what can be
+done in it, and give you an Account of it in the Afternoon; but there's
+so much Company at my Lodgings, that 'tis not a convenient place for
+you: Can't you come somewhere else?_ Yes my Lord, _says I_, very
+innocently, where you please: _if you will be in a Hackney Coach then,
+at Five a Clock by_ Covent-Garden _Church, I will come to you, and let
+you know what I can do for your Friend_. I told him I would, and went
+away very well satisfy'd with him, for I had no apprehensons of any
+design, from a Man of his Character. You know all the World thinks him
+the fondest Husband upon Earth, and that he never had a thought of any
+Woman but his Wife, since he Marry'd her. This made me secure, and I did
+not fail to go at the appointed hour. My Mother knew nothing of it till
+afterwards; for I did not see her that day. When he came to me, he told
+me, what he had done; inform'd himself of some things that were
+necessary for him to know, that related to the business, and assur'd me
+he wou'd do the Widow Justice. Then he renew'd his Promise to me with
+Protestations, that I shou'd command him as far as his Authority or
+Interest cou'd go; and beg'd me to make use of him either for my
+Relations, or my self, when ever I had occasion. After he had made me
+some Speeches of my Wit and Beauty, we parted, and as soon as I saw my
+Mother, I told her all that pass'd between us. She was extreamly pleas'd
+to have so great a Man her Friend; especially, one that she had no
+Reason to suspect of any ill Design, since he had taken no advantage of
+so favourable an opportunity as I had given him to discover himself, if
+he had any; nor had not so much as desir'd to continue the
+Correspondence. The next day the business was concluded more to our
+satisfaction than was expected. Sometime after this, a Gentleman of my
+Mothers acquaintance told her, he had a mind for a Commission in the
+Army, and that he would give a considerable sum of Money to any Body
+that would procure it. My Mother said she'd try her Interest, and made
+me Write to _Cloridon_ about it. He sent me an obliging Answer, and
+desir'd to see me at the same Place where we met before, that I might
+give him an exact Account of the Person I recommended, and Answer some
+Questions about him more particularly than I cou'd do by Writing. I did
+so in the first part of our Conversation; and then he began to talk of
+the many ills that Attend greatness, of which he said Flattery was the
+chief; for it was the greatest Unhappiness to be sooth'd in ones Faults:
+_But_ Olinda, continu'd he, _in you I see all that Sincerity and
+Ingenuity that is requisite for a Friend, and I shou'd think my self
+very Happy, if you wou'd let me see you sometimes; if you wou'd tell me
+of my Faults, and what the World says of me_. You Honour me to much my
+Lord, _says I_, but you have taken such care to make all Virtues your
+own, that there's no room left for Flattery, or Correction. To be short,
+after a great many Compliments of this Nature he told me, 'twou'd be an
+Act of so great goodness, that he was sure I cou'd not deny him. But
+what will the World think, _says I_, of such private Meetings? _If
+neither you, nor I, tell it, it won't be known_, says he, _as it should
+if I came to Visit: you. So that I may have the same Innocent Pleasure
+of seeing you, which you wou'd not deny me in Publick, without making
+any Noise: And since I assure you I have only a Friendship for you, it
+can't shock your Virtue_. I neither granted, nor deny'd him his Request;
+for I did not know whither I shou'd do the first, and cou'd not resolve
+to do the last; both because it might be a hindrance to our business,
+and because I was very well pleas'd with his Conversation. Nothing cou'd
+be more agreeable; he is a Man of as much Sense, and as great Address,
+as any I ever knew: But what is more to be commended and wondred at in a
+Statesman, he never promis'd any thing that he did not perform. He gave
+me his Word for the Commission I desir'd; appointed me a day when I
+shou'd meet him to receive it; and kept it punctually. These were such
+great Obligations, that I cou'd not but have some acknowledgments for
+'em. There was nothing talk'd of in our House, but _Cloridon_'s
+Generosity; and about that time, all the Town rung of some great Actions
+he had then perform'd: So that all things Contributed to encrease my
+Esteem of him. I Writ him a Letter of Thanks, and he told me in his
+Answer, that he desir'd no other Recompence for all he cou'd do for me,
+but to see me sometimes. I consider'd, that there was no danger in
+seeing a Man, that was so great a Lover of his Lady; and that profess'd
+only a Friendship for me: That if ever he shou'd change, I cou'd easily
+forbear it, and that whatever happen'd, my Virtue was a sufficient
+Guard. So I consented to it, without letting my Mother know any thing of
+it. But I must delay telling you what these secret Meetings produc'd;
+for time and Paper fails me, and will scarce give me leave to assure you
+that I am
+
+  _Your tenderest Friend_
+
+    Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER IV.
+
+
+YOU wou'd pity rather than chide me, _Cleander_, if you knew the Cause
+of my not Writing to you all this while. I have not been one moment
+alone for this Fortnight past, but condemn'd to entertain a mix'd
+company, all of different Humours, different ways of Living, and of
+Conversing; so that 'twas almost impossible to please one without
+Contradicting anothers Humour. You may judge how uneasie this was to me;
+for I've often told you, I had rather be all my Life alone, than with a
+Company that is not chosen: That I sometimes prefer Solitude even to the
+best, and that I had now retir'd to avoid the World: But I find one
+never enjoys any thing without disturbance that one places one's
+happiness in; and I was to blame to expect a singular Fate shou'd be cut
+out for me. But whatever Accident deprives me of any thing else I Love,
+I can never be unfortunate, if _Cleander_ continues to be my Friend. You
+may remember I broke off my last, where I had resolv'd to see
+_Cloridon_, as he desir'd. We met as often as we cou'd, extreamly to
+both our satisfactions: He told me all his little uneasinesses, and had
+so great a Confidence, in me, that he discover'd some Intreagues of
+State to me, that are yet unknown to some that think they are not
+strangers to the most secret transactions of the Court; and he never
+undertook any of his own Affairs of greatest moment, without asking my
+Advice. Thus we liv'd for two Months, and nothing past that gave me
+Reason to repent an Action, that was not ill in it self; but might be
+so by the Consequences of it, till one day, when he had been telling me
+several things which concern'd him nearly: _But there's one Secret_,
+says he, Olinda, _that I have never told you yet, tho' it takes up all
+my Heart: But 'tis that I believe you know it too well already_. I said,
+I cou'd not so much as guess at it. _What_, Olinda _interrupted, is it
+possible you shou'd be Ignorant, that I am the most in Love of any Man
+in the World? How cou'd you imagine, I that knew you so well cou'd have
+only a Cold Respect or Friendship for you? No no_, Olinda, _I Love you;
+I love you Ardently; I cannot live unless you give me leave to tell you
+so; and to hope that you will one day return it_. I was so amaz'd at
+this Discourse, I did not know what to Answer: It vex'd me to be oblig'd
+to alter my way of Living with him; but I did not find my self so Angry
+at his Love as I ought. However, I disguis'd my thoughts, and put on all
+the Severity that is needful in such Cases. I have more Reason to be
+displeas'd with such a Declaration from you my Lord, _said I_, than any
+other: You that say you knew me so well; What have you seen in me to
+Encourage it? Have I ever given you occasion to suspect my Virtue? Or is
+it that you are tired with my Conversation, and therefore take this most
+effectual means to be freed from it? _Inhumane Fair!_ said he, _Must you
+hate me because I love you? can you Resolve not to let me see you, only
+because you know I desir'd it more than before?_ In short, he said the
+most passionate things that a Lover can imagine; and tho' I found he
+mov'd my Heart too much, I dissembled well enough to hide it from him.
+Nothing he said, cou'd prevail with me to see him, and I hop'd Absence
+wou'd help me to forget him. He Writ many melancholly Letters to me,
+telling me all the Court took notice of his Grief; that it would shortly
+be his death, if I would not see him; and beg'd me to live with him as I
+had done, and he wou'd never speak to me of his Love. But still I
+refus'd, tho' unwillinglly. I was Angry at my self for thinking of him,
+and for being pleas'd, when some told in Company where I was, that he
+had been so out of Humour for some time, that no Body durst speak to him
+of Business. I lov'd to think it was for me, and ask'd a hundred
+Questions about him. But now the Publick Affairs oblig'd him to go to
+_Flanders_, where he perform'd Actions Worthy of himself. His Valour,
+Generosity, and Liberality were talk'd of everywhere, which still more
+and more engag'd me. I cou'd not but have some Inclination for so fine a
+Man, when I consider'd that he lov'd me too: However, I believ'd I had
+only that Esteem for him which I thought due to his Merit, and that
+Gratitude which the Obligations I had to him requir'd. But I grew
+insensibly more Melancholy than Usual. One Evening that my Mother and I
+were taking a serious Walk by the Canal in St. _James_'s Park, a
+Gentleman of her Country, and Acquaintance, seeing us at a distance,
+came to bear us Company: The Air being pretty Cool, we wore our Masks,
+and after we had made two or three Turns, he saw a Friend of his, of the
+same Nation, coming towards us. _That_, says he, _is_ Antonio, _Son to
+my Lord ---- He is a very well Accomplish'd Gentleman, and has a good
+Estate, I wish he were Married to_ Olinda. I know the Family, and have
+hear'd of him, _Replyed my Mother_, I shou'd not dislike the Match. By
+this time he was come up to us, and after having beg'd Pardon for
+intruding, and leave to Walk with us, he turn'd of my side. He had not
+seen my Face, for it was duskish, and I only made a Fashion of lifting
+my Mask upon our first Compliments; but yet he said abundance of fine
+things, of my Beauty and Charms. After half an Hours Conversation we
+were going home, and they would needs wait upon us, but one of his
+Servants met him, and told him he had been looking for him a long time;
+some Friends of his that were going out of _England_ the next day, staid
+for him in the Mall, and must speak with him immediately. So he left us
+to the tothers Care, and went back. The first time _Antonio_ met with
+his Friend, with whom he had seen us; he told him, he was so Charm'd
+with the Ladies Conversation, that he could not rest till he saw her
+again. He Answer'd, that he wou'd not like her if he had seen her, but
+he wou'd carry him to Visit one, whose Beauty wou'd soon make him forget
+her. _Antonio_ said that Wit and good Humour had far greater Charms for
+him, than the finest Face in the World: But that you mayn't think me
+obstinate, I will see her upon condition, that if her Eyes have not that
+influence which you expect, you will make me acquainted with that Lady
+whose Wit has engag'd me more perhaps than you imagine. He promis'd he
+wou'd, and so left him, and came to our Lodging: He gave us an Account
+of this Conversation, and desir'd us to continue the Humour, and not let
+him know we had seen him before; for he fancy'd a great deal of Pleasure
+in seeing me Rival my self. We agreed to it, and when they came, I
+entertain'd him with the greatest simplicity imaginable: For you must
+know I had an Aversion for him, which I cou'd give no Reason for (that
+Passion is as unaccountable as Love) and therefore I was pleas'd he
+shou'd think me a Fool, that he might not desire to see me again. I was
+glad to perceive he was uneasie in my Company, and to make him the more
+so, I talk'd very much, and very little to the purpose. When he was
+gone, he said to his Friend, _That if_ Olinda _had the other Ladies
+Soul, she wou'd be a dangerous Person; but that as she was, he cou'd no
+more Love her than a fair Picture: That her Folly had only made him the
+more eager to see the unknown, and therefore he claim'd his Promise_. He
+_Answer'd_, that he did not know what a second sight of _Olinda_ might
+do; but however not to be worse than his Word, he wou'd endeavour to
+contrive a Meeting, but he cou'd not promise he shou'd see her Face, for
+she was very shy of that, as she had some Reason. I was extreamly averse
+to seeing him again, but this Gentleman was so earnest with me, and my
+Mother said so much for it, for she was desirous to have us acquainted,
+that I was almost forc'd to go; but Resolv'd not to shew my Face. He
+carry'd _Antonio_ to the Park, at an appointed hour, when he said, he
+heard the Lady say she wou'd be there; and we met 'em as if by chance.
+We had a Conversation that wou'd have been diverting enough, if my
+Hatred for him had not made me think, all he did or said disagreeable:
+He told me I had been continually in his thoughts since he saw me, and
+that I had made such an Impression in his Heart, as cou'd never be
+alter'd. I said he must have a strange Opinion of my Credulity if he
+thought I cou'd believe he was in Love with a Woman he never saw. _Ah!
+Madam_, says he _how much more Charming are you Veil'd as you are than a
+Beautiful Fool that can only please ones Eyes: Such a one as my Friend
+here made me Visit the other day; and then he gave me a long Description
+of_ Olinda, _and Related all her Discourse; which indeed was very
+insipid_. We made some Satyrical Remarks upon the poor Lady, and then we
+parted, tho' _Antonio_ wou'd fain have gone home with us; but we wou'd
+not permit him. He was very importunate with his Friend after this, to
+make him acquainted with the unknown; but he said, he durst not carry
+him to see her without her leave; but he wou'd try to gain it, if he
+continu'd to desire it, after seeing _Olinda_ two or three times. He
+Reply'd, he wou'd endure so much Mortification, in hopes of so great a
+Blessing as he promis'd him, but it must be speedy, for a Lover was
+impatient; and he shou'd be better satisfied with seeing the Ugliest
+Face he could imagine; than with that doubt he was in. In short, he
+brought him to our Lodgings several times, and still I acted the Foolish
+part; but yet he confess'd to his Friend, that I had mov'd him a little;
+and he Refus'd to see me again for fear he said, that he shou'd Love a
+Woman that he cou'd not Esteem: But one moments interview with his other
+Charmer wou'd deprive _Olinda_ of that little part she had gain'd of his
+Heart. A little after some young Ladies that I knew, were going to the
+Play, and begg'd me to go with them: I was so chagrin, I cou'd not think
+of any diversions; but that made them the more pressing, urging it wou'd
+cure my Melancholy. So I went with them, and the first sight I saw was
+_Antonio_ and his Friend. The last seeing a Lady that was not handsome
+with me; it came into his thoughts to say, that was she that _Antonio_
+was in Love with. He gaz'd upon her with the greatest eagerness
+imaginable, for a long time; then turning to another that was with them;
+which of those two, _says he_, (pointing to her and me) do you like
+best? You amaze me with that Question, _Returned he_, for I think there
+is too great a Disparity between them, to leave any doubt that it must
+be _Olinda_: (for he new my Name.) You wou'd alter your Opinion, says
+_Antonio_, if you knew them both as well as I; for _Olinda_'s Beauty is
+more than doubly Valu'd by the others Wit, and solid Judgment. But
+_Olinda_ has both, _Replyed the Gentleman_; which I believe you can't
+but know if you have ever talk'd with, or heard of her: For every body
+gives her that Character. They Wrong her extreamly, says _Antonio_, for
+she is really Foolish to deserve Pity; I never Conversed with a Woman
+whose Company was so tiresome; she talks Eternally, and not one Word of
+Common Sense. 'Tis impossible your Friend here, who is a very good
+Judge, has often said such things of her to me, that I must think you
+mistake the Woman. I have been too often with her for that, says
+_Antonio_, you may rather believe my Friend Jear'd her. Then they
+question'd him about it; but he Laugh'd, and said, He never saw a pretty
+Woman, but he thought she had Wit enough; so that they did not know what
+to make of him; but _Antonio_, who would not have been sorry to find as
+much Wit in _Olinda_, as he imagin'd in one, whose outside did not
+please him so well; took some pleasure in fancying himself deceiv'd;
+tho' when he consider'd it seriously, he could not believe it. However
+he enquired diligently of all that cou'd inform him any thing of me,
+which did more confound him: For they agreed, that I was far from being
+a Fool, and he cou'd not imagine to what end I shou'd pretend it: But
+was Resolv'd to find it out. He came often to see us, and still found me
+the same Fool, till one day when we had a great deal of Company, I was
+extreamly put to it; for I did not care for making my self ridiculous to
+so many; and 'twas not good Manners to be silent; however, I chose
+rather to be Rude, than undeceive him: I often made as if I did not hear
+when I was spoke to; but I was obliged to Answer, when one said to me,
+what's the matter with you _Olinda_, that you are Dumb of a sudden? I am
+sure you ought not; for if it were pardonable in any Woman to talk
+always, 'twould be in you, that do it so well. I was so confused at this
+Compliment, that came so _male a propos_; that I believe I did not
+Answer it over wisely; but as my ill Fate would have it, a Lady in the
+Company took a Paper out of her Pocket, saying, _I am resolved to make_
+Olinda _speak whether she will or not; and I will leave you to judge,
+whether she does not do it well in this Song_. So she read one that I
+had Writ at her desire; for she sung very well. I would fain have denyed
+it, but I saw it was in vain, for Wit will out one way or other.
+_Antonio_ seemed overjoyed at this Discovery, and I was as much grieved:
+For no Woman had ever a greater desire to be thought Wise, than I to be
+thought otherwise. He came to see me every day from that time, and when
+his Friend told him, that he hoped he would not dispute _Olinda_'s Power
+any longer, since she made him so absolutely forget her, whom he had
+once preferred so much to her; he said, that it was not the same
+_Olinda_ whom he loved, for she had chang'd her Soul. Nor had he forgot
+the other, for it was that Wit, that same turn of Thought, and agreeable
+Conversation which he admir'd in her, that he ador'd in _Olinda_. I do
+not know, whether he ever knew, that they were both one Person, but he
+did not desire to see the other. When he discovered his Love to me, I
+entertained it so coldly, that he could have little hopes, but that is
+the last thing that quite forsakes a Lover: And it did not hinder him
+from persisting. He watched his opportunity, when he saw any thing had
+pleased me, but still he was Repulsed with greater Scorn. I took delight
+when he was with me, to Repeat often those Words in _Sophonisba; The
+Fort's impregnable, break up your Siege, there is one for you too mighty
+entered in; the Haughtiest, Bravest, foremost Man on Earth_. He
+importuned me extreamly to know who this Happy Man was; and Vowed if I
+would tell him, he'd never mention his Passion to me again; but I told
+him, if there was such a Man, it was the same Reason he should trouble
+me no more, as if he knew who he was; since that could make no
+alteration in my heart: And perhaps it was a Secret; however, that I
+would hear no more of his Love. He Begg'd, and Sigh'd, and Whin'd, an
+Hour or two to make me Reverse my Doom; but in vain; and I was pleas'd
+that he believed me in Love, tho' I did not think it my self. He
+continued to Visit me without saying any thing of particular to me; and
+without suspecting the Object of my Love; 'till my Mother and some
+Company were talking of the great Actions _Cloridon_ had done; just as
+they Named him, he looked at me, (by chance it may be) but I being a
+little Guilty, thought it was designed, Blushed, looked down, and was
+confused, which made me blush the more; and that was enough to fix a
+Jealousie that had long possest him, and that Watched for the least
+shadow of Reason to place it upon any particular person. I was so
+ashamed of my self, that I was not able to stay in the Room, and when I
+was gone, _Antonio_ kept up the Discourse of _Cloridon_; begun to praise
+his Person, and ask'd my Mother what she thought of him. She said, 'twas
+so long since she had seen him, that she had almost forgot him; but that
+her Daughter had seen him lately, (and so told upon what occasion) and
+that she Extolled him for the finest Man she ever saw. This confirmed
+his Jealousie; and the first Opportunity he had with me, he told me some
+News of _Cloridon_: And then asked me if I had ever seen him, and how I
+liked him. I knew nothing of what my Mother had said; and not being
+willing he should believe what I found he suspected; I answered, that I
+had seen him two or three times in Walks at a distance: That I thought
+he was well enough, but not so handsome as Fame had made him. There
+needed no more to remove all doubt that he was his Rival; but how to
+know the particular Terms we were in, was the difficulty; he knew his
+Character, and thought me Virtuous, and therefore could not fear any
+thing Criminal betwixt us; but he resolved to try if my Affections were
+strongly engaged; and to that end he shew'd me a Letter from _Flanders_,
+wherein it was told him, that _Cloridon_ (to the great wonder of all
+there) had a young Lady disguised in Men's Cloaths with him all the
+Campagne, and that it was discovered by an Accident, which he gave a
+large Account of. I found my self seized with an unusual I know not
+what, and did all my endeavours to conceal it, but I changed Colour two
+or three times, and he having his Eyes continually upon me 'twas
+impossible but he must observe my concern: However, he said nothing of
+it to me, and I forced my self to talk of things indifferent. As soon as
+I was alone, I examined my self upon the matter. Why should this trouble
+me (said I within my self) who would not entertain his Love, when it was
+offered me, and I have often Resolved never to see him, even when I
+thought him Constant? How comes it then, that I am so Grieved and Angry
+that he loves another? And that I wish with such impatience for his
+Return? In fine, I discovered, that what I had called Esteem and
+Gratitude was Love; and I was as much ashamed of the Discovery, as if it
+had been known to all the World. I fancyed every one that saw me, read
+it in my Eyes; And I hated my self, when Jealousie would give me leave
+to Reason, for my extravagant thoughts and wishes: Mean while _Antonio_
+would not be Idle, he thought this was the time for him; when my Anger
+was Raised against _Cloridon_; that that and my Obedience to my Mother
+(if he could get her of his side, which he did not much doubt) would
+induce me to Marry him; and then he did not fear, but Reason and Duty
+would overcome my Love. Accordingly he had my Mother's Consent, and
+entreated her to intercede for him; but all this was so far from having
+that effect which he expected, that I hated him the more: I was so
+unjust as to look upon him as the Cause of my Affliction, and I was so
+Angry to see him take such Measures, as I foresaw must make me very
+uneasie, that I treated him ill, even to Rudeness. But I will leave him
+and _Olinda_ equally unhappy, till the next Post; and then give you an
+Account of some Alteration in their Affairs, which if it gave her ease,
+I believe a little encreased his pains. In the mean time believe, that I
+remain
+
+  _Your Friend_, Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER V.
+
+
+'TIS not possible for you to imagine, much less for me to express what I
+endur'd, by my own Jealousie, and _Antonio_'s Persecution: Either of 'em
+wou'd have been grievous enough, but together they were intolerable; and
+I cou'd expect no Remedy, for I knew not what I wou'd have. I did not
+continue one moment in the same Mind; I long'd for _Cloridon_'s Return,
+and yet I resolv'd not to see him, tho' when I thought that perhaps he
+would not desire it, I almost dy'd with the Fear; but that was soon
+over, for a Week after _Antonio_ had shew'd me the Letter I mention'd in
+my last, he came to Town, and sent me a Letter the first Night, fill'd
+with the tenderest expressions of Love, and Vows, that all his Fortune
+and Conquests abroad could not give him the least Joy, whilst I remained
+inexorable; and a hundred Entreaties to see him once, and he shou'd die
+contented. This was some satisfaction to me; but 'twas but imperfect:
+Sometimes I believ'd all he said, and presently after call'd him false
+and Perjur'd: One while I resolv'd not to answer him, and the next
+Minute chang'd my Mind; but I was long before I cou'd fix upon what to
+say. At last I writ with a great deal of affected coldness, only I gave
+him some dark Hints of the Lady I had heard was with him, which in his
+Answer he said, he did not understand. He writ several times to me by
+private Direction, which I had given him when I believ'd he was only my
+Friend; but a little after he sent to our Lodgings, to tell me, that he
+had a Place at his disposal, which if I had any Friend that wou'd accept
+of it, was at my Service. My Mother made me return him Thanks, and tell
+him, that I had a Relation who was very fit for the Employment, who
+shou'd wait upon him, but he was not now in Town. _Cloridon_, who
+desir'd no better occasion, sent me word, that if I wou'd let him see
+me, he wou'd tell me what was to be done in it; for it was not a thing
+to be neglected, because there were a great many pretended to it, who
+might get it by some other means, since it did not wholly depend on him.
+I did not know what pretence to make to hinder my going, for I durst not
+tell my Mother of our Meeting without her knowledge: And perhaps I was
+glad of the necessity of seeing him, since it took away the Fault, and
+serv'd for an excuse both to my self and him; tho' I was sorry to be
+forc'd to receive new Obligations from him. I never saw a Man in such an
+extasie of Joy, as he appear'd to be in at this Interview: He was
+Speechless and Motionless for a long time, and when he spoke, 'twas with
+so passionate and charming Words and Air, that I was not able to say
+those severe things I design'd. I check'd him for obliging me to see
+him, after I had refus'd him so often, that he might know 'twas contrary
+to my Inclinations; but (as he told me since) he saw something in my
+Eyes which made him think, I was not very Angry with him: And when I
+explain'd that part of my Letter which hinted of the Lady, I did it in
+such a manner, that he believ'd me Jealous. At first he seem'd amaz'd at
+what I told him, but afterwards he deny'd it so coldly, and took so
+little pains to perswade me 'twas false, that I was enrag'd; which still
+discover'd my Weakness the more. He found one pretence or other for
+delaying the Business, and for seeing me two or three times, and took
+pleasure in heightning my Jealousie; till he thought, if he trifled with
+me any longer, he might lose me for ever: And then he begun to protest
+seriously, There was no such thing, that it must be the invention of
+some particular Enemy of his; for if I wou'd give my self the trouble to
+enquire, I should find it was no general Report, and 'twere impossible
+it shou'd not be known by every Body, if what I had heard was true. We
+easily believe what we wish; and when I consider'd from whom I had the
+Story, I much doubted the truth of it: And whilst I saw him, and heard
+him Swear, he had never had the least inclination for any other Woman
+since he saw me. I was firmly perswaded of his Fidelity; but my
+suspicions return'd a little, as soon as I left him. He told me, he
+cou'd willingly forgive the Invention, since it had occasion'd the
+discovery of my Sentiments, which were to his Advantage; but reply'd,
+That he need not much boast of what my Weakness had reveal'd; for tho' I
+cou'd not now deny that my Heart took too great a part in what concern'd
+him, yet since he knew it, nothing shou'd prevail with me to see him
+again; and so I left him: But I cou'd not forbear saying at parting,
+that he had made me very unhappy, and I wish'd I had never seen him,
+tho' I condemn'd my self a hundred times for it afterwards. I ask'd of
+all I knew that had been in _Flanders_, or had any Correspondence there,
+if they heard of _Cloridon_'s having a Lady Disguis'd with him; but they
+assur'd me, there was not so much as the least Report of it, which
+pretty well satisfied me as to that: For every Action of a Man of his
+Quality, and in his Post, is so narrowly observ'd, that a thing so
+extraordinary cou'd not have been a Secret; but yet I was very desirous
+to know upon what ground that Letter was writ to _Antonio_. However I
+wou'd not examine him about it, because I saw he suspected my Love
+already, tho' he had never told me; but still continued my most
+assidious Humble Servant and Tormentor: And I think I was not much in
+his Debt, for I really treated the poor Man Barbarously. My Mother gave
+him all the opportunities she could, and one day that she had some
+business that would keep her out till Night; she left me at home, and
+gave Orders that no body should be admitted to see me but _Antonio_. I
+was so vexed at this Command, that I resolved to revenge my self upon
+him, and when I heard the Noise of one coming up Stairs, I prepared to
+give him the rudest Reception I could: I sate Reading with my back
+towards the Door, and did not rise when he came in, till I saw a Man
+kneeling by my side; and then without looking towards him, I got up and
+walked to the other end of the Room. _What, Madam_, says he, _is my
+Offence so great? Or do you hate me so much, that you will not hear me
+ask for Pardon?_ I found something in the Voice soft, and moving, which
+struck me like one I was accustomed to be pleased with; and turning
+about, I was amazed, Good God, _cryed I_, is it possible? Are you
+_Cloridon_; or do I Dream? How could you come here?----, _How could I
+forbear coming so long?_ interuppted he, _or how can I live a moment
+from you? I must see you_ Olinda, _whatever I hazard, and since you
+refused to let me a securer way, how could I neglect so favourable an
+opportunity_? Then I desired to know by what means he knew, that I was
+alone; and he told me, that since the last time he saw me, and that I
+had been so good as to own my self sensible of his Love, he had had a
+hundred Plots and Contrivances to see me; but found none so feasible as
+that, which he had put in Execution. He sent a Servant whom he confided
+much in, and Ordered him to try all means possible to know my Motions
+when I went out, and when I was at home alone; and he had found the way
+to gain the favour of a Servant that belonged to the Landlord of the
+House, (no doubt he feted her well,) and she had engaged to be secret,
+and to send him word when I was alone; but she did not know for whom she
+did this Service; only he had told her, that it was a Man of Quality
+that was in Love with me, and desired to see me privately, to know how I
+was affected towards him, before he declared himself publickly. He came
+to her that morning, and she told him, my Mother was gone out, and that
+she heard her say, she should not come Home 'till Night; so that if he
+would come with the Person that was to see me, she would be at the Door
+to conduct him to me: When they came, she told them, that a Gentleman
+that courted me had been there just now, but she denied that I was at
+home on purpose to oblige him. I was angry that he should take so little
+care of my Reputation; but he said, that it was not at all in danger,
+for no body knew of it but that Servant who would not tell it for her
+own sake; or if she did, she saw that 'twas all without my Knowledge.
+That if I would not give my Consent to see him abroad, he should do
+something more extravagant that might expose both me and him: But if I
+would, he'd promise never to speak of his Love to me. In sine, by
+Threatnings and Intreaties, and my own Inclination, I was prevailed
+with, after I had made him swear not to mention his pretended Passion.
+Forgive my Frailty, dear _Cleander_, it was not possible for me to
+refuse the Man I loved any thing that could admit of excuse, and I found
+or made Arguments enough to sooth my Inclination, and persuade me it was
+no Fault only to see him. I hastned him away for fear he should be seen
+with me, but he lingred on for two or three hours and just as he was
+going I heard _Antonio_'s Voice asking for me, so that he could not go
+out without meeting him. I was extreamly vexed, but this was no time to
+fret or chide. I desired him to step into a Closet, which I had in the
+Room; where I kept my Books, and told him I would contrive a way to be
+rid of the other quickly. When I had Locked him in, I took my Hoods and
+seemed to be putting them on, in order to go abroad, so that _Antonio_
+could not in good Manners stay; but he desired, since he was so unhappy
+as to be deprived of that satisfaction he expected in my Company, that I
+would lend him some Book to divert his Melancholy. I told him, that he
+would have found so little in my Company, that he needed not much mourn
+for the loss of it: But as my ill Fate would have it, he was so pressing
+to borrow a Book, that I knew not how to refuse it; I turned the
+Discourse and sat down, and said, I had altered my Resolution, and would
+stay at home. _Antonio_ wondred at this mighty Favour, he was so unused
+to receive any from me, that he was Transported at it: He thanked me for
+it a hundred times, and I believe presaged no little good Fortune for
+him from such a Change, tho' my way of entertaining him, gave him no
+great encouragement. If I should give you a particular Account of our
+Conversation, it would be as impertinent to you, as it was troublesome
+to me; I will only tell you, I never passed an Hour with half so much
+pain as that, having for addition to the usual uneasiness his Company
+made me endure, that of the unseasonableness of the time. Whilst I was
+fretting at this unhappy Accident, and fearing he would not go away till
+my Mother came home, our Landlord's Maid came to tell me, there was one
+below would speak with me: I went down and saw it was that Servant of
+_Cloridon_'s, which he had spoke of to me; he told me, that the King had
+sent twice for his Lord, and desired me to tell him, that he must of
+necessity go presently, for the business was of importance. This was a
+new Vexation; and I staid some time to deliberate what I should do, and
+at last, resolved to say I was sent for by a Lady that was Sick, that so
+_Antonio_ might be obliged to leave me. But how was I surprized, when I
+returned and found _Cloridon_ in the Room! I needed not dissemble an
+astonishment, for I was as much amazed to see him there, as if I had not
+known he was in the House. He advanced towards me, with a Ceremonious
+Bow, saying, _You have Reason, Madam, to wonder, and to be Angry at me?
+but when you know, that it is the general Frailty of Mankind that
+brought me hither, your goodness sure will pardon me: I mean Love,
+Madam, Love which makes the Wisest Men guilty of the greatest
+Irregularities_. I blushed at what he said, not apprehending his design,
+and told him his being there, and his Discourse were both so mysterious
+to me, that I did not know what to answer him. He said, he thought
+himself obliged to tell the Truth, since my Reputation would be in
+danger by concealing it: But first he must beg me to pardon the Servant
+of the House, and not to let her Master know of it; for he having taken
+a fancy to her, had wheedled her into a Consent, to let him come and see
+her, tho' the Wench was very honest: That our Family being all abroad,
+she had brought him into that Room, and hearing me returned, she had put
+him into the Closet, believing I would go out again: But finding I staid
+long, he had entertained himself with my Books, and in removing some had
+thrown down others, the noise of which had made _Antonio_ open the Door;
+and since it was his Fortune to be discovered in a Foolish thing, he
+hop'd the Gentleman and I, would let it go no further. We gave him our
+Word for it; and when he was gone, we both sat silent for a long time,
+each expecting what t'other would say: At last he begun. _Cloridon_ was
+hard put to it, to be forced to discover such a secret; he that has
+acquired the Reputation of Chast, found out to be so little Nice, as to
+take such pains, for one of so mean Quality, and one that has not many
+things to recommend her. You have the Luck, _said I_, to find out
+_Cloridon_'s Intreagues, when no body else knows any thing of 'em: And
+he may thank his Good Stars his secret falls into such hands; if you are
+as careful of this, as you have been of that in _Flanders_, which no
+body but you has ever heard of. _I shall certainly conceal it Madam_,
+replyed he, _for your Fame sake; for the malicious World would be apt to
+fancy his thoughts were something higher than a Dirty Wench, when he was
+put into your Closet: But I am to believe what you please, and if you
+tell me you never saw him before, but in Walks at a distance, I won't
+doubt of it_. I am not much concerned what you, or any thinks of me,
+_says I_, my satisfaction does not depend upon Opinion: And I shall be
+always happy, as long as I am innocent; whether you believe me so or
+not. However I owe so much to Truth, to assure you, that whatever
+designs _Cloridon_ had, I knew no more of his coming here than you did,
+and that I am very Angry at him for it. _If you had not told me so
+Madam, I should, it may be, have thought you would rather have lent me a
+Book, than endured my Company so long (which you always used to avoid)
+but that you feared I should see him, if you opened the Closet; but I am
+very glad, you will have me interpret your staying with me more to my
+advantage._ I was vexed he should think it was to oblige him; and since
+I found he was Master against my Will, of the greatest part of my
+Secret, I thought it best to make him a Confident of it, which would
+prevent his Addresses to me, and engage him to the greater Fidelity. I
+told him then, all that was betwixt us; and he gave me some good
+Counsels, not to cherish a Love, or entertain a Correspondence that
+might in the end prove dangerous, considering his Circumstances; but I
+was too far gone to take them, and besides, coming from a Rival, I did
+not make much Reflexion upon them. Advices by an interested Person, tho'
+never so reasonable, are not minded, or at least are much suspected,
+especially when they contradict the inclination of the Advised. I did
+not tell him, I had consented to see _Cloridon_, because I resolved not
+to tell him any thing, but what I could not conceal. I did not see
+_Antonio_ in a Month after, but he sent often to ask how we did, and
+said, _he was very ill himself_. He Writ once to me, to tell me he was
+endeavouring to overcome a Passion, which he found was displeasing to
+me, and which therefore must make him very unhappy; and to beg me, if he
+could effect it, to accept him as a Friend, and not continue that hatred
+for him then, which I had for my Lover. Mean while, the too Charming
+_Cloridon_ and I met together often: At first we entertained one another
+with all the News, and little Intreagues of the Town; he put so entire a
+Confidence in me, was so pleased to see me, and so obliging to me, and
+my Relations upon all Occasions, that I then thought my self happy, to a
+degree that left no Room for Wish; for he gave me the greatest evidences
+of his Love, without speaking of it to me, which was all I could desire
+from a Man, whose Love I preferred to every thing but Virtue; and who I
+could not hear talk of it without a Crime: But how easily are we drawn
+in by such steps as these, to things we had made the strongest
+Resolutions against. In some time he made Complaints to me, and spoke of
+his Passion in a third Person, so that I might understand him, but I
+could not be angry with him; and I knew not how insensibly, and by
+degrees I accustomed my self to hear of his Love; at first defending my
+self against it, and chiding him for breaking his Word; but his Excuses
+seemed to me stronger Reason than my Accusations; and at last I
+suffered it with Pleasure, and without Reluctancy. Thus my unwary Heart
+entangled it self more and more, pleasing it self with its own Folly,
+without looking backward or forward; happy for the present on all sides,
+for now I was no longer troubled with _Antonio_. He after a Months
+absence came to see me, and told me, he desired nothing of me now but my
+Friendship, and to convince me, he was not my Lover, he would tell me a
+secret in favour of _Cloridon_, if I would promise to forgive him; I
+told him I would, and then he gave me that Account which I have given
+you, of his first suspecting my Love, and how to try it, he had feigned
+that Letter which he shewed me; that he had resolved to undeceive me, as
+soon as he had discovered what Sentiments I had for him; but when he saw
+how it affected me, Jealousie would not give him leave, and love
+prompted him to make use of it to his own Advantage. He added, that tho'
+Love had made him guilty of Treachery so much contrary to his Nature,
+yet I should always find him the most sincere, and the most faithful of
+his Friends. Tho' I believed before that Story to be an invention; you
+cannot imagine how much I was pleased, to be sure of it now. I easily
+pardon'd him, since I had promised it, and since I thought he deserved
+it, having told it voluntary. From that time I received him more
+favourably than I used to do, and took some pleasure in his
+Conversation, because he was the only Man that knew of my Love, and that
+I could talk with freely of _Cloridon_. But now my Mother perceived I
+had some more complaisance than before for _Antonio_; she wondred he
+talked nothing of Marriage to her, and told me her thoughts, which put
+me upon new contrivances, how I might shun her Anger, and yet _Antonio_
+come off with Honour. I found him raise scruples against all the Methods
+I would invent, and often he asked me, if I design'd never to Marry,
+and what Reasons I could always give for not doing it; which made me
+apprehend he was not altred so much as he seemed; and fear I should have
+some trouble in this Affair, he had told me, that when he was very
+young, his Father had contracted him to a kinswoman of his, that lived
+in the House with them, who had a great Fortune, and he heard was
+handsome, and witty; but he went to his Travels before it could be
+known, whether she was either so; that he had never had any Love for
+her: I had a great mind to let my Mother know this, for I knew she was
+scrupulous in such things, and would not consent to Marry me to a Man,
+that had any engagement to another; but I was loath to do it, without
+his leave, since he was so sincere as to tell it me, and because I was
+afraid to exasperate him. I took a great deal of Pains to flatter him
+into a complyance; I told him my Mother could not have the worse Opinion
+of him for it, since it was a thing done when he was so young, and that
+he could have no other Reason to hinder him, now that he had no design
+upon me, which if he had, I should find other ways to disappoint them,
+tho' perhaps they might make me more uneasie. At last, with much
+difficulty he agreed to it, and when I told it to my Mother, I found her
+affected as I wish'd; which when _Antonio_ knew, he fetched a great
+Sigh, and only said, _Have I lost all my hope then, Madam?_ and so went
+away extreamly discomposed. A while after he came to take leave of us,
+and said his Father had sent for him in haste, to go to his own Country;
+but he told me in private, that he could stay no longer in a place,
+where he grew every day more and more unhappy; and that now he had
+resolved to leave it: He could not forbear telling me, that he had only
+concealed his Love all this while, to get into my Favour, and in hopes
+of finding something which might give him hopes. But since I had now
+deprived him of all, he would not encrease his Misery, by seeing every
+day the Objects of his Love, and of his Hate, his cruel Mistress, and
+his happy Rival. I am told his Father presses him extreamly to Marry,
+being his only Son, but he waves it. I should think I had given you a
+Description of a Miracle of Constancy in spight of Rigours and Absence;
+but that in this Age, kindness is a more effectual way to cure Love; an
+unlucky thing, since no body will attempt it, that has that design; but
+I, (or Fortune for me,) found you see, a less dangerous way to free my
+self, with more ease than I could hope, and I think it is time to
+deliver you now, and give you a little respite till next Post, when you
+may expect the continuance of the History of
+
+  _OLINDA_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER VI.
+
+
+IF I did not know to the contrary by my own Experience; you wou'd make
+me believe, that Friendship and Love can't be contain'd in one Breast.
+Is it possible you can be so much taken up with _Ambrisia_, that you
+have not time enough to tell me of it; and that in this Solitude, I
+should hear of _Cleander's_ Affairs from two or three, before I knew any
+thing of 'em from himself: They tell me you are every day with your New
+Mistress, and that you are well receiv'd there. I should be pleas'd with
+it, if I did not fear, instead of finding two Friends, to lose that one,
+whose Friendship I prefer to all other things: But you'll make me almost
+Jealous of her if you don't write quickly, for this is my fourth since
+I've heard from you. Tell me _Cleander_, you that search into the Nature
+of things, that know the Passions of Men; how they are form'd in the
+Soul, and by what means, and what Degrees they rise; tell me how I may
+give that Awe, that fear, or that Respect which I hear often talk'd of,
+that makes Men not dare to tell a Woman that they love her. Is it the
+Grave, the Sour, the Proud, or modest Looks? Or is there no such thing,
+but in Songs and Romances? For my part, I could never meet with it; and
+tho' perhaps there is some Pleasure in being belov'd, I cannot endure to
+be told of it, unless by the Language of the Eyes, or so; for that we
+need not understand: But there's nothing so dull, or so troublesome to
+me, as a declar'd Lover: This Reflection was occasion'd by an Adventure
+happen'd to me two days ago; a Stripling of Eighteen, whose Father and
+Mother had been Servants in the Family where I am, said to one in the
+House (who told me) that he was in Love with me, and after had the
+Insolence to tell me himself, that he was in Love; _But you little think
+with whom, Madam_, added he; and just as he was going to finish his
+Declaration, by good Fortune he was call'd away: Can any thing be more
+provoking? Teach me where to place my Anger, on the Men, or on my self.
+_Antonio_ was bashful to a Fault in other things, and yet he did not
+fear to say all he thought, and it may be more to me. _Cloridon_, who
+treated me with the highest Respect imaginable, discover'd his Love to
+me, as soon as he knew it himself; and many have pretended it, that
+never felt any, at least for me. The last indeed had encouragement
+enough, not to repent of what he had done, and Reason not to despair of
+any thing he could ask; so that after being two Years contented with my
+Love, he resolv'd to put it to the Trial, and begun to pretend to
+Favours, with all the Arguments he could invent, or find, to perswade me
+of the innocence and lawfulness of what he ask'd: You may find what
+influence they had upon me by the following Lines, which he sent me in a
+Letter next day.
+
+
+I.
+
+  _NOT one kind Word, not one relenting Look?
+    The harsh, the cruel Doom to mitigate?
+  Your Native Sweetness, ev'n your Eyes forsook;
+    They shin'd, but in the fiercest form of Hate._
+
+II.
+
+  _Is't Honour does these Rigid Laws impose;
+    That will no sign of gentleness allow;
+  That tells you 'tis a Crime to pity Foes,
+    And bids you all the utmost Rigour show?_
+
+III.
+
+  _All Praise the Judge, unwilling to Condemn,
+    Where Clemency with Justice long Debates:
+  But he who Rig'rously insults, we blame,
+    And think the Man more than his Sin, he hates._
+
+IV.
+
+  _Dare I my Judge accuse of Cruelty?
+    When at her Feet she saw her Slave implore,
+  With hasty Joy she gave the sad Decree:
+    I hate you, and will never see you more._
+
+V.
+
+  _Ay! 'tis too plain, the false_ Olinda'_s pleas'd
+    To see the Captive's Death her Eyes had made:
+  As what she wish'd, she the Occasion seiz'd;
+    No Sigh a kind Reluctancy betray'd._
+
+VI.
+
+  _If you intend to try your Power or Skill,
+    A Nobler way pursue the great Design:
+  The meanest Wretch on Earth knows how to kill;
+    But to preserve from Death's an Act Divine._
+
+VII.
+
+  _Like Heav'n, you with a Breath can Recreate
+    Your Creature, that without you does not Live:
+  Say that you Love, and you r'voke my Fate;
+    And I'm Immortal if you can forgive._
+
+VIII.
+
+  _My fiercest Wishes you shall then restrain,
+    And Love that tramples o'er my Heart subdue:
+  What doubt can of your mighty Pow'r remain,
+    When ever that submits and yields to you?_
+
+I believe I spoke from my Heart, when I told him I hated him; I'm sure I
+thought so then, when I saw him whom I believ'd to have an Esteem and
+Respect for me, act as if he had neither. I said the most violent things
+I could imagine against him, and left him without the least Reluctancy:
+But my Rage, or Hate, was soon converted to a Quiet Stupid Grief, that
+overwhelm'd my Soul, and left me not the Power of easing it the common
+way, in Tears or Complaints. I saw that I must resolve never to see him
+again, whatever it made me endure: And in fine, I saw all that could
+make me unhappy, without any hopes of a Remedy; for tho' he writ to me
+often to beg my Pardon, and Vow'd a thousand times he wou'd not be
+guilty of the same fault again, tho' he were sure to be successful; yet
+I prevail'd with my self absolutely to refuse to see him, with more
+Resolution than I thought my self capable of; for I consider'd it was
+dangerous to trust him, notwithstanding his Protestations, since he had
+broke his Word before: And I don't know if I had not some Reason to
+distrust my self, after having gone so far, as not only to suffer him
+to talk to me of his Love, but to own mine to him. When he saw this
+would not do, he had recourse to his old way of Writing upon Business;
+but the Letter came first to my Hands, and so I stifled it, and said
+nothing of it to my Mother. A Week after a Porter came to me, and said
+he was sent by the Countess of ---- who desir'd me to go immediately to
+her Lodgings, for she had something of great Consequence to tell me, and
+that he left her at a place where she had Din'd, but she was just going
+home. Away I went, and when they told me she was not at home, I thought
+she would not fail of being there presently, and went up Stairs to Stay
+for her: When I came into the Room, I saw _Cloridon_ there, and wou'd
+have retir'd; but he civilly hinder'd me, and told me, he was waiting
+for his Cousin (for this Lady was nearly related to him) whom he
+expected to come in very soon; but 'twas a great happiness I came
+before, and more than he cou'd have hop'd for from Fortune; for at first
+he pretended it was Chance brought us together there; but he knew I must
+find it out, and so to prevent my discovering it to the Lady, he told
+me, that coming to Visit her, and not finding her at Home; it came into
+his thoughts to send for me in her Name; for he knew that she us'd to
+visit me, and often desir'd me to go abroad with her, or to bear her
+Company at home; so that he hop'd he might succeed without being
+suspected. I was in great confusion, and very angry at the Trick he had
+put upon me; and yet I could not but be a little pleas'd at it too. I
+lov'd to see him, and was glad of an opportunity to give him his Pardon,
+which I did, but made a Vow never to consent to meet him in private,
+tho' he begg'd it upon his Knees above an Hour, and said he would not
+rise till I had granted it: I suppose he was not so good as his Word;
+but I left him in that posture, and before I went away, and charg'd him
+not to write to me any more. This Interview serv'd but to increase my
+melancholy; I indulg'd it a long time, and thought upon nothing but what
+sooth'd and added to it: But at length considering the occasion of my
+misfortune, it represented itself to me, not only as my Folly, but my
+Crime; and then I concluded it must be a Crime to grieve for the loss of
+that, which 'twas a Crime to Love; and so fix'd a resolution of
+overcoming my Passion, which I endeavour'd to do by Reason, and by
+Diversions. Had I had you my Friend to assist me with your Counsels, I
+had found it much less difficult; but now I had the strongest part of my
+self to Combat without any Aid: I often gave Ground, and sometimes
+suffer'd my self to be vanquish'd by the bewitching Reflections of what
+unequall'd Satisfactions I had found in his Company, and how many happy
+hours I enjoy'd with him; but some good Thought would rouse my Soul to
+strive again, and then the Victory was mine. I find by Experience 'tis
+but bravely, heartily, and thoroughly Resolving upon a thing, and 'tis
+half done: There's no Passion, no Temptation so strong, but Resolution
+can overcome: All is to be able to Resolve; there's the Point, for one
+must lose a little of the first Ardour before one can do that; and many
+of our Sex have ruin'd themselves, for want of time to think. 'Tis not a
+constant settled purpose of Virtue will do; there must be particular
+Resolutions for a particular Attack; 'Tis easie enough to say, no Man
+shall prevail with me to do an ill thing; the difficulty is, such a Man
+shall not; he that I love, he that 'tis Death for me to deny any thing
+to: There I got the better of my self, and as last attain'd to a calm
+serenity of Mind, which I have enjoy'd ever since, as much as can be
+expected in such a World as this; and which nothing can disturb, if you
+continue to have that Friendship for me which you have profess'd, and
+which your Silence makes me almost doubt of; but there's hardly any
+thing I could not more easily believe, than that _Cleander_ is False or
+Inconstant. Write quickly, for I am impatient to know the Cause of this
+unkindness to
+
+  _Your constant Friend_,
+
+    OLINDA.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+LETTER VII.
+
+
+_AMbrisia's_ Cruel, Coy, Disdainful, and you believe she hates you; and
+yet _Ambrisia_ took occasion at Play to impose upon you as a Penance,
+not to write for a Month to one she believ'd you lov'd. If this had been
+another's Case, you wou'd have discover'd that _Ambrisia's_ Jealous.
+Trust me, she loves you, and only puts on the usual Disguises of Women
+as sincere as she is; and give me leave to justifie her, and the rest of
+our Sex in that Case: You have learn'd so well to feign Love, when you
+have none, that 'tis very hard to discern Art from Nature; and 'tis but
+reasonable we should be allow'd the less Guilty part of concealing ours,
+till we can know whether you are sincere: Besides, we know those things
+are most valu'd, that are obtain'd with most difficulty; and your
+natural Inconstancy gives us Reason to use all means to make you prize
+us as much as we can. Your selves too, encourage us in it, for you
+despise a Woman that's easily gain'd, tho' you rail at the Dissembler;
+and we can't begin to love just when you would have us; so that both for
+our own sake and yours, 'tis sometimes necessary to deceive you: And I
+believe I may add, that there is a Natural Modesty in some Women, that
+makes 'em asham'd to own their Love. Mr. _Dryden_ in his _State of
+Innocence_, gives our Mother _Eve_ a little of that; tho' some are of
+Opinion, it had its Birth from your faithlessness; and that if you had
+not been false, we had never been shie. If it be so, don't you think we
+have Reason to be cautious in a thing of such Weight; But I need not
+take such pains to defend this Cause, for mine was a Fault on the other
+hand, a too easie discovery of my Love: And to speak the Truth, whatever
+we are accus'd of, I believe that's the more general one. 'Tis only
+those that are as Wise as your Mistress, that can have so much Command
+over themselves, as to be guilty of the 'tother; tho' if she knew you as
+well as I do, she wou'd find that she has no need to make use of any
+Arts to try you, or to preserve you: However don't despair, the Mask
+will soon fall off. You have Reason to wonder at my breaking off with
+_Orontes_, since by what I have told you, _Cloridon_ cou'd be no
+occasion of it: But suspend your amazement a little, tho' my Misfortunes
+ended at Seventeen, my Adventures did not, and several things have
+happenn'd to me in the Year I have pass'd since, which you are yet a
+Stranger to. You neither know how my Acquaintance begun with _Orontes_,
+nor why it ended. In the beginning of last Summer, when I was
+endeavouring to divert my Love and Grief, I went with a Lady to see a
+Play: She was not in humour to Dress, and would needs have me go
+_Incognito_; and as we were coming out of the Play-House, we were seiz'd
+upon by two Sparks, who swore they would not part with us; but that
+either we should Sup with them, or they wou'd go with us. We did not
+know how to be rid of these Impertinents, but we saw, if we took Coach,
+we could not hinder them from going into it; so we resolv'd to walk to
+our Mantua-maker, who liv'd hard by; and when we went in they left us,
+as we thought: but a quarter of an hour after, they came up Stairs, and
+tho' we were very angry at the Rudeness, yet they staid a pretty while;
+and he that had at first apply'd himself to the other Lady, was very
+pressing to be acquainted with her; but my Spark sat down just opposite
+to me without saying a Word, only sometimes desir'd his Friend to go
+away; which after he had plagu'd us half an Hour, they did: The next
+Week I went to _Tunbridge_ with my Mother; and the first sight I saw at
+the Wells, was this Gentleman: He came towards us very respectfully, and
+said he was very glad of this opportunity of begging my Pardon, for the
+Insolence he had been guilty of; he hop'd the Lady who was with us, whom
+he had the Honour to know, would intercede for him. She that was in the
+Country with us, and who you know is an intimate Friend of ours,
+happen'd to be very well acquainted with him; and when we came home, she
+told me that his Name was _Orontes_; that he was a Gentleman who had but
+a small Fortune; but to repair it, he was Marry'd to a rich Widow above
+Threescore and ten; that tho' she was very ill Natur'd, he was the best
+Husband in the World to her, but he would take his pleasure abroad
+sometimes, and she was extreamly Jealous. He came to visit this Lady,
+and entreated her to carry him to see me; for he said he was sensible of
+the Affront he had given me the first time he saw me, and that he was
+very desirous of some Occasion to serve me; and he thought himself
+obliged to tell me so, and to seek all Opportunities of doing it. She
+consented to it; and he came often to see us, and was very obliging to
+us. I will let you know my thoughts of him, because you can tell me if
+they are just; for he said he was not the same Man with me as with any
+Body else: He seem'd to me to have Wit enough, but 'twas rough and
+unpolish'd; nothing of that Politeness which renders a Man agreeable in
+Conversation. After the common Theams of the Weather, and News were
+discuss'd, playing at Cards, or taking the Air, were certainly propos'd:
+But I have heard, that in other places he was very entertaining, and had
+a hundred pleasant Stories to divert the Company. What can be the reason
+of this? I am sure he stood in no awe of me, as his future Actions
+shew'd; and he always told me his Thoughts freely, but plain and blunt,
+without giving 'em the turn of Gallantry, which is necessary to take;
+and yet he could not want Breeding, for he always convers'd with People
+of the First Quality. The Manner is often more look'd upon than the
+Thing; and tho' I'm as little pleased with Forms as any Woman, yet in
+some things 'tis the essential part; there are few Men, whose Esteem or
+Respect I covet; but I would have all Men keep that distance with me, as
+if I gave 'em Awe; but I could never obtain it of 'em; tho' none ever
+gave me so much occasion to lament it as _Orontes_. Once, when he was at
+our Lodging, my Mother was talking of a Journey she design'd the next
+day about Ten Miles off, where she was to stay all Night: He asked me if
+I went with her: I said _No_; and desired my Mother to return as soon as
+she could; because I should be alone till then. It seems (as he told me
+since) he had made an Appointment with a particular Friend of his about
+Business of Importance; but having been long desired to see me alone, he
+would not neglect this Occasion, and sent him an Epistolary Excuse in
+these Words:
+
+_My Wife thinks I am with you, but_ Olinda _told me she shall be alone
+to day, and I don't know when I shall meet with so favourable an
+Opportunity; so that you must excuse me; but I'll certainly see you to
+morrow_.
+
+His Wife, being always suspicious of Letters she did not read, went to
+the Post-House after this: They made no scruple to give it her; because
+they knew 'twas one of their Servants had brought it; and when she had
+read it, she went home in all haste, and had her Husband dog'd to my
+Lodgings. When he came there he told me, that the first time he saw me,
+he lik'd my Shape and Mien, and was extreamly taken with my Face, that
+he durst not so much as ask me Pardon whilst he saw me so angry; and
+that since he was acquainted with me, my Humour had charm'd him so, that
+he could be content to leave all the World for me: And then, Laughing,
+ask'd me, If I could live with him, and he would keep me a Coach, and
+let me want nothing I could desire. I rally'd with him till he begun to
+talk more seriously, and then I check'd him for his Insolence; but it
+had no effect upon him; And when he saw that neither Promises nor
+Intreaties could move me, and that Opportunity favour'd him, he resolved
+to try what Violence would do; he had sent our Servant a Mile off for to
+fetch some Fruit, which, he said, was the best about the Country; and we
+were in a back Room near no Body in the House, so that I was in great
+Fear; however I made all the noise and Resistance I could, and was
+happily delivered by his old Lady's coming in: She might easily perceive
+we were both in Confusion, tho' she hardly guess'd the true Cause; and I
+was so good natur'd as not to tell it her. When she rail'd, we bore it
+with a great deal of Patience, and indeed I wonder'd at his Moderation:
+I really thought he would have let her beat me to revenge his Cause; but
+he was not so much a Brute, he hinder'd her, and very civilly led her
+away. The next day I saw him at the Wells, and whilst my Company was
+Raffling, he took the opportunity to talk with me, though I avoided him
+with all the Diligence I could. _Don't frown upon me, Olinda_, says he,
+_you ought to forgive me; Repentance is all that Heaven requires, and I
+never in my Life did an Action that troubled me so much; but if you have
+not good Nature enough to pardon me upon that, I must say something to
+excuse my self: If I believ'd you Virtuous before, it must be by an
+implicit Faith; but the way to be sure was to try it; and now I shall
+always admire that Virtue I could not subdue: Why then should you be
+angry with me any longer than my Fault remains?_ Though I had a little
+Prejudice against him, I thought he spoke with more Eloquence, and a
+better Grace, than ever I heard him before; it may be his Concern
+inspir'd him; but 'twas to little purpose, for I was inexorable. I told
+him, _I did not think him worth my Anger, and should easily forgive him,
+upon Condition he would never see me any more: No_, Madam, said he, _I'd
+rather see you angry, than not see you at all_: But in spight of me, he
+visited us often; but I always entertain'd him with a coldness that did
+not much please him, though no Body else perceiv'd it. We came to Town
+in the beginning of _September_, and he was once at our House, and found
+me alone: He began to talk of a violent Passion he had for me; but I
+stop'd him, and said, _That was not a Discourse fit for me to hear from
+him_. I commanded him to leave me; and told him if he ever came there
+again, I wou'd be deny'd to him. He obey'd me, and I did not see him
+again till _November_. He came in Mourning, and told us he had had the
+misfortune to bury his Wife. He Writ to my Mother to desire her leave
+to make his Addresses to me; which she gave him, and then he appear'd a
+declar'd Lover. I was so us'd to receive him with Anger and Disdain,
+that though I had not the same Reason now, I did not change my Behaviour
+to him; and for four Months my Mother let me take my own way, without
+speaking one word of _Orontes_ to me: Either she design'd to observe
+what I wou'd do of my self, or she did not think it fit to talk of my
+Marrying him so soon after his Wife's Death; but when she saw I slighted
+him so long, she said to me one day, What do you mean Child, to receive
+with equal indifference all the Proposals that are made to you? Do you
+resolve to lead a single Life? I should approve of the choice in one of
+a better Fortune; but you must conform your self to yours, and consider
+that I am not able to maintain you. If you don't hate _Orontes_, I will
+have you Marry him, he has given so great proof of his being a good
+Husband, that you can't fear he will be otherwise to you; he is Handsome
+enough, and very Rich; I believe he loves you, and in fine, I think you
+may be as happy with him as with any Man; therefore, don't be
+obstinately bent against your own good. He came in at the same time, and
+seconded this command of my Mothers with Intreaties and Complaints. I
+had no Aversion for him, and since my Circumstances wou'd oblige me to
+Marry, and that I knew I could never love any Man; I thought it might as
+well be he as any other; so in sometime after I yielded, and the
+Wedding-day was appointed to be the Sixteenth of _May_ last. How do you
+think 'tis possible to avoid it now; but many things happen betwixt the
+Cup and the Lip. You are to know that _Orontes_'s Estate lay near a fine
+Seat of _Cloridon_'s, which he often retir'd to; so that they were
+acquainted, and much together; and that _Orontes_ went to his Country
+House to make some Preparations a Week before the designed Marriage.
+_Cloridon_ told him he was extreamly pleas'd to see him there; for they
+had made a match for Hunting five or six days after with some Friends of
+his, that were wishing for him. I must beg your Pardon my Lord, _says
+he_, that I cannot stay so long; for I have business that will call me
+to _London_ sooner. If it be not of great importance, _return'd he_,
+pray let me prevail with you to stay. 'Tis not to be deferr'd my Lord, I
+am to be Marry'd. Marry'd, cry'd my Lord, prithee what Madness possesses
+thee, so lately freed, to bind thy self again without any necessity for
+it? What Bait next, not another old Rich crabbed Widow, I hope? I have
+made a better Choice now, _answer'd Orontes_: She has Youth and Goodness
+I'm sure; and I have Money enough for us both. You are in the Right,
+_Reply'd Cloridon_; but may I know her Name. You knew her Father my
+Lord, _says he_, and then Sir _Martin Marrall_ told him whose Daughter I
+was. And are you engag'd to her, _Cloridon_ ask'd? She has promis'd to
+marry me the 16th of this Month, _said Orontes_, and therefore my Lord,
+I hope you wont take it ill if I leave you upon so weighty an Affair.
+_Cloridon_ was not in humour of making many Compliments; but he ask'd
+abundance of Questions, of the beginning and progress of his Love, and
+how I had us'd him all the time; but he could not much boast of my
+Favour, which pleas'd _Cloridon_, and encourag'd him to endeavour to
+break off the Match. He told _Orontes_ he should be oblig'd to go to
+_London_ that day, but he would come back again before he went away; so
+he left him, and immediately took his Journey; and as soon as he
+arriv'd, came to our Lodgings, where he found my Mother and I together.
+Judge of my surprize at this Sight, my first Thoughts were of _Orontes_;
+I sigh'd when I compar'd 'em with one another, and had a thousand
+different thoughts which I know not what to make of. _Cloridon_
+Addressing himself to my Mother, _said_, Madam, I am come to beg a
+Favour of you, which I should hardly have the Confidence to ask, if the
+whole satisfaction of my life did not depend upon it. My Mother told
+him, that she could not refuse any thing to one whom she ow'd so much
+to; and that she should think her self happy if she could serve him in a
+thing which he said concern'd him so nearly. He return'd some
+Compliments, and then desir'd her to hear him out with Patience, which
+she promis'd, and he begun, I have a long time had a great Love and
+Respect for your Daughter, and would have given all the World to have
+seen her sometimes; but she refus'd it me; and I bore her Rigour without
+Murmuring, in hopes the time would come when I could tell her I lov'd
+her without offending her Virtue: But I can't live when I have lost that
+hope, and therefore am come to beg you not to marry _Olinda_, as I am
+told you design; and I will make her Fortune greater than what she can
+expect from _Orontes_. How, my Lord, _interrupted my Mother_, what
+strange Proposition is this you make me? Be not angry with me, or fear
+me, _continu'd he_, for the moment you grant what I intreat of you, I
+will leave you, and never desire to see _Olinda_ again, as long as I
+continue in the Condition I am in; But 'twill be a great Happiness for
+me to think, that she may one Day be mine; and to be assur'd she will
+never be any others; and if she be not chang'd, or that I am not much
+mistaken in her, she will not be averse to it. He was in the right, for
+though I was never an Enemy to Marriage, yet I always preferr'd a single
+Life to it; and I found enough of my stifled Flame revive to make my
+Wishes comply with his. When my Mother saw me much inclin'd to it, and
+knowing I had only consented to marry _Orontes_ in compliance of her;
+she began to think of it as a thing might be done, but that she had
+given her Word to _Orontes_, and could not go back from it. But
+_Cloridon_ told her, she need not be in any Fault in that, if she wou'd
+but make use of the occasion would be given her to break off with
+_Orontes_ without Examining further. She made some other Objections, but
+he Answer'd them all, and upon his Knees Swore, that if I Married
+_Orontes_, neither he nor my Husband would survive it: So partly out of
+fear of what might happen, and partly out of inclination to oblige him,
+and willingness to please me, my Mother consented. _Cloridon_ begg'd
+leave to talk with me, before he took his last leave, which he did, and
+made me some little tender Reproaches, for having resolv'd to Marry;
+which I answer'd with a more reserv'd Kindness than I had sometimes
+done; and that was the Subject of many Letters he sent me since; for he
+often writes to me. Two Days before we were to be Marry'd, _Orontes_ was
+to come to Town, which _Cloridon_ knew, and had provided half a dozen
+Soldiers to seize upon him in the King's Name, (for he was suspected for
+an Enemy to the Government.) They did so, and told him they were
+commanded to keep him a close Prisoner in a House hard by, till further
+Order. He would fain have Writ, but they would not let him, for they
+said they had Orders to the contrary. There they kept him a Week, and we
+wonder'd we heard nothing of him, not knowing what methods were us'd to
+hinder us; and to avoid seeing our Friends, who would enquire the
+Reason, we thought it best to retire hither, this being a private Place.
+When _Cloridon_ knew I was out of Town, he went himself to free him, and
+told him things had been misrepresented, and he had been wrong'd; but in
+requital he would procure him any Employment he would name; but he did
+not accept it. When he came to enquire for me, no Body could tell him
+where I was: But a Friend with whom I had left such Orders, told him,
+that I had taken it so ill, that he should slight me so far, as neither
+to come, nor to send to me, in so long time, that whatever he could say
+for himself, I wou'd never forgive him, nor so much as hear him. He was
+no doubt troubled at it, but he was not a Man to take any thing much to
+Heart; and _Cloridon_ knowing he had not dealt very fairly by him, was
+very desirous to oblige him some other way: And indeed he did him a very
+considerable Service not long after, for he was really accus'd privately
+to the King of a Plot, which wou'd have cost him his Life, if _Cloridon_
+had not taken a great deal of pains to free him, more than he could have
+expected in such a ticklish Affair as that; and had like to become
+himself suspected by it: So that I think he has been more his Friend in
+saving his Life, than he was his Enemy in taking his Mistress from him.
+This is, _Cleander_, the true Cause of my Retirement, which is very
+agreeable to me, whilst I hear often from you, and whilst _Cloridon_
+continues to think of me. I have sent you a Copy of Verses which he writ
+to me just after I came hither.
+
+  _Nor cou'd my Rival, when those Charms
+  By thee were destin'd to his Arms,
+  Be half so bless'd as I, to find
+  The lovely Nun for me Confin'd:
+  Nor when of all that Bliss bereav'd,
+  He saw his full-blown hopes deceiv'd,
+  Cou'd be so curst as I to see
+  My self Exil'd from Heav'n in thee.
+  Strange Contradiction in my Fate,
+  At once a blest and wretched State:
+  But who--what Lover wou'd not choose
+  Thus to gain all, tho' all he lose?
+  So Merchants strive their Lives to save,
+  Threaten'd by ev'ry Wind and Wave,
+  And see with joy the long'd for Coast,
+  Tho' all they ventur'd for is lost._
+
+_Cloridon_ has just sent me word that _Orontes_ is dead of the
+Small-Pox; so that I shall come to Town sooner than I design'd. The
+expectation of seeing you pleases me extreamly; for tho' I find a great
+satisfaction in conversing with you by Letters; yet 'tis not so full and
+perfect at this distance, as when I am with you. I can't tell you my
+Thoughts so well, nor know yours; a Question suddenly started, or
+sometimes a Look, will discover more to me than you know of your self;
+and I would know you not as you seem to the World, or what you think of
+your self, but what you are; for though you are more sincere than other
+Men, yet there is no Man but deceives the World in some things, and
+himself in more; and therefore to be a good Man, 'tis absolutely
+necessary to have a true Friend; and since you have made choice of me, I
+can only attone for my want of other Qualifications, by my Fidelity,
+which you may always rely upon. Will not the World, when they see so
+tender, so constant an Affection betwixt us, be convinced of that
+receiv'd Error, that there can be no such intimacy betwixt two of
+different Sexes without the Passion of Love; In us I'm sure they can't
+suspect it; when they see you have so much Love for _Ambrisia_, and me
+so forward to promote its being reciprocal. I wish it may have that
+Effect, that the Women may no longer scruple to bestow their Friendship
+upon a Worthy Man, for fear of misconstructions; both Sexes will find
+their Advantages by it. Yours is more capable to instruct and form our
+Minds; than the wisest of our own; and ours will be more apt to curb
+that Licentiousness, which Men usually encourage one another in: And
+what happiness will it be for us to see our selves the Instruments of
+all the Men's becoming Good, and all the Women Wise? (A more
+extraordinary Reformation than _Luther_'s.) Let our Friendships then be
+so Exemplary, that all may emulate, and wish to live like us; and by
+endeavouring, find that there's a purer and more solid Satisfaction one
+moment with a Friend, than Ages thrown away upon the Gallantries, which
+so take up the Hearts, and steal the Hours of our Youth. Adieu
+_Cleander_, correct the Errors of my Life with a gentle Hand of
+Friendship, and always be as much my Friend as I am yours,
+
+  _OLINDA_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER VIII.
+
+Olinda _to_ Cloridon.
+
+    _In Answer to a Letter which he sent her with the Copy of Verses in
+    the sixth of the foregoing ones._
+
+
+'TIS not an Hour ago since I believ'd I hated you: I thought I could
+have rail'd at you, have call'd you base, seducer of my Honour, Traytor,
+that under a pretence of Love, design'd my Ruin; but Ah! those tender
+Excuses which you sent me, soon discover'd the mistake, and show'd me it
+was only Angry Love, that so Transported me: And now 'tis turn'd to as
+violent a Grief, which wou'd fain ease it self in Complaints: But I am
+so wretched, that even that poor Comfort is deny'd me; for who can I
+complain to, when in lamenting my Misfortune I must expose our Crime:
+For yours my Lord, has involv'd me in the guilt; and all those thoughts
+and Actions, which were innocent before, must be condemn'd as the Causes
+of such ill Effects: For if I had never lov'd you, or if I had never
+own'd it, nor consented to see you, you had not desir'd any thing of me
+that could shock my Virtue: Now, I can't think of 'em without Shame and
+Anger. That Love which shin'd before so Pure and Bright, appears now the
+Blackest thing in Nature; and I hate my self for not hating you; for I
+own (tho' I blush in owning) that I love you still; Nay, I believe that
+I forgive you too; but I must never, never see you more: No, though you
+swear you Repent, and that you would not repeat your Crime, if you were
+certain of success. Would not you believe I should as easily Pardon your
+breach of this Vow, as I did the last, which you made me as solemnly?
+Yes, you would, my Lord, and I should be betray'd to things I never
+thought of yet: For all is solid, convincing Reason that you speak; and
+I should soon believe any thing you would have me. Curse on that fond
+Credulity that first deceiv'd me into a belief, that 'twas no Sin to
+love you. Yet sure it could not be an unpardonable Fault, to value one
+that so infinitely deserves it: To Love, to See, and Talk with one whose
+Conversation is so Charming as yours; and that was all I wish'd. All
+that know you do the same; Why then am I more guilty? Ah! If your Fame
+had been as pure as mine, we had both been Happy and Innocent; so
+innocent, that she, that happy she, who claims all your love as her due,
+(even she, I think, if she had known our Hearts) could not have been
+offended at it: But who is there, the most uninterested, that would not
+now condemn us; Nay, the most Partial could not excuse us; even we
+should blame our selves. Why will you then importune me still to see
+you; ask me no more, what I dare never grant; and believe----but you
+know, 'tis not unkindness makes me Refuse you: You know I must be
+Wretched in your Absence; yet think me easie and satisfied, if it will
+contribute any thing to your quiet; or rather don't think of me at all.
+Let us make our selves as happy as we can; I will endeavour to forget
+you; don't Write to me, if you love me well enough to forbear it: And if
+you can cease to love me, without hating me; for I don't find I have
+force enough to bear so great a misfortune, which is the only one can
+add to the weight of those which have already almost sunk
+
+  _The Poor_
+
+    OLINDA.
+
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+  16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).
+
+  18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10
+      (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).
+
+
+1949-1950
+
+  19. Susanna Centlivre, _The Busie Body_ (1709).
+
+  20. Lewis Theobald, _Preface to the Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
+
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+
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+
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+1963-1964
+
+  104. Thomas D'Urfey, _Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds_
+       (1706).
+
+
+1964-1965
+
+  110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
+
+  111. Anonymous, _Political Justice_ (1736).
+
+  112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
+
+  113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_ (1698).
+
+  114. _Two Poems Against Pope_: Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to Mr. A.
+       Pope_ (1730), and Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_ (1742).
+
+
+1965-1966
+
+  115. Daniel Defoe and others, _Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs.
+       Veal_.
+
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+
+  117. Sir George L'Estrange, _Citt and Bumpkin_ (1680).
+
+  118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).
+
+  119. Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_
+       (1717).
+
+  120. Bernard Mandeville, _Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables_
+       (1704).
+
+
+1966-1967
+
+  123. Edmond Malone, _Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to
+       Mr. Thomas Rowley_ (1782).
+
+  124. Anonymous, _The Female Wits_ (1704).
+
+  125. Anonymous, _The Scribleriad_ (1742). Lord Hervey, _The Difference
+       Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_ (1742).
+
+  126. _Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by
+       Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O._ (1682).
+
+
+1967-1968
+
+  127-
+  128. Charles Macklin, _A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers_
+       (1746). _The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy_ (1747).
+
+  129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to _Terence's Comedies_ (1694) and
+       _Plautus's Comedies_ (1694).
+
+  130. Henry More, _Democritus Platonissans_ (1646).
+
+  131. John Evelyn, _The History of Sabatai Sevi, The Suppos'd Messiah of
+       the Jews_ (1669).
+
+  132. Walter Harte, _An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad_
+       (1730).
+
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+       Character of the Late Samuel Johnson_ (1786). Introduction by
+       Robert E. Kelley.
+
+  134. John Downes, _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708). Introduction by John
+       Loftis.
+
+  135. Sir John Hill, _Hypochondriasis, a Practical Treatise on the Nature
+       and Cure of that Disorder Call'd the Hyp or Hypo_ (1766).
+       Introduction by G. S. Rousseau.
+
+  136. Thomas Sheridan, _Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course of
+       Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759).
+       Introduction by G. P. Mohrman.
+
+  137. Arthur Murphy, _The Englishman From Paris_ (1756). Introduction by
+       Simon Trefman. Previously unpublished manuscript.
+
+  138. [Catherine Trotter], _Olinda's Adventures_ (1718). Introduction by
+       Robert Adams Day.
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+Dearing.
+
+3. Elkanah Settle, _The Empress of Morocco_ (1673) with five plates;
+_Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco_ (1674) by John
+Dryden, John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell; _Notes and Observations on the
+Empress of Morocco Revised_ (1674) by Elkanah Settle; and _The Empress
+of Morocco. A Farce_ (1674) by Thomas Duffet; with an Introduction by
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+Errata List:
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+
+  p. viii: "Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal" should be
+           "Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal"
+
+  p. 136: "seem'd not to blelieve" should be
+          "seem'd not to believe"
+
+  p. 143: "LETTER V." should be
+          "LETTER II."
+
+  p. 150: "one wou'd thing" should be
+          "one wou'd think"
+
+  p. 150: "_Ambrisia_ cant hear" should be
+          "_Ambrisia_ can't hear"
+
+  p. 152: "Whilst he he held" should be
+          "Whilst he held"
+
+  p. 152: "I had no apprehensons" should be
+          "I had no apprehensions"
+
+  p. 153: "You Honour me to much my Lord" should be
+          "You Honour me too much my Lord"
+
+  p. 157: "I refus'd, tho' unwillinglly" should be
+          "I refus'd, tho' unwillingly"
+
+  p. 158: "to the tothers Care" should be
+          "to the others' Care"
+
+  p. 160: "for he new my Name." should be
+          "for he knew my Name."
+
+  p. 164: "that that and my Obedience" should be
+          "that and my Obedience"
+
+  p. 176: "in spight of the greatest Rigour" should be
+          "in spite of the greatest Rigour"
+
+
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+
+<p>This book contains inconsistent punctuation and various misspellings
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+</div>
+<hr class="l65" />
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">The Augustan Reprint Society</span></p>
+
+<h1>OLINDA'S<br />
+ADVENTURES:<br /><br />
+Or the Amours of a<br />
+Young Lady</h1>
+<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%">&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p class="center">(1718)</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%">&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><i>Introduction by</i>
+ROBERT ADAMS DAY</p>
+<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%">&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="l65" />
+
+<p class="center">PUBLICATION NUMBER 138</p>
+<p class="center">WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY</p>
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">University of California, Los Angeles</span></p>
+<p class="center">1969
+</p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+
+<p class="center">
+GENERAL EDITORS</p>
+<p class="center">William E. Conway, <i>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</i></p>
+<p class="center">George Robert Guffey, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></p>
+<p class="center">Maximillian E. Novak, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i>
+<br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center">ASSOCIATE EDITOR<br />
+</p>
+<p class="center">David S. Rodes, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i><br />
+<br /></p>
+<p class="center">ADVISORY EDITORS
+<br /></p>
+<p class="center">Richard C. Boys, <i>University of Michigan</i></p>
+<p class="center">James L. Clifford, <i>Columbia University</i></p>
+<p class="center">Ralph Cohen, <i>University of Virginia</i></p>
+<p class="center">Vinton A. Dearing, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></p>
+<p class="center">Arthur Friedman, <i>University of Chicago</i></p>
+<p class="center">Louis A. Landa, <i>Princeton University</i></p>
+<p class="center">Earl Miner, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></p>
+<p class="center">Samuel H. Monk, <i>University of Minnesota</i></p>
+<p class="center">Everett T. Moore, <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></p>
+<p class="center">Lawrence Clark Powell, <i>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</i></p>
+<p class="center">James Sutherland, <i>University College, London</i></p>
+<p class="center">H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., <i>University of California, Los Angeles</i></p>
+<p class="center">Robert Vosper, <i>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</i><br />
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+<p class="center">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
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+<br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center">EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
+<br /></p>
+<p class="center">Mary Kerbret, <i>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2>
+
+<p class="in">A standard modern history of the English novel speaks of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">i</a></span>
+"the appearance of the novel round about 1700. Nothing that
+preceded it in the way of prose fiction can explain it."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">1</a> Though
+today many scholars would assert that "nothing" is too strong a
+term, just how much of the original fiction written under the later
+Stuarts could "explain" Defoe and Richardson? Most late seventeenth-century
+novels, it is true, are rogue biographies, scandal-chronicles,
+translations and imitations of French <i>nouvelles</i>, or
+short sensational romances of love, intrigue, and adventure with
+fantastic plots and wooden characters. Only occasionally was
+a tale published which showed that it was not examples of the
+novelist's craft that were wanting to inspire the achievement of
+a Defoe, but rather the sustained application of that craft over
+hundreds of pages by the unique combination of talents of a
+Defoe himself.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Such a novel is <i>Olinda's Adventures</i>, a brief epistolary
+narrative of 1693, a minor but convincing demonstration of the
+theory that a literary form such as the novel develops irregularly,
+by fits and starts, and of the truism that a superior mind can
+produce superior results with the most seemingly ungrateful
+materials. Of Defoe, <i>Olinda's Adventures</i> must appear a modest
+precursor indeed; but measured, as a realistic-domestic novel,
+against the English fiction of its day, it is surprisingly mature;
+and if we believe the bookseller and assign its authorship to a
+girl of fourteen, we must look to the juvenilia of Jane Austen
+for the first comparable phenomenon.</p>
+
+<p class="in"><i>Olinda's Adventures</i> seems to owe what success it had entirely
+to the bookseller Samuel Briscoe. It appeared in 1693 in
+the first volume of his epistolary miscellany <i>Letters of Love
+and Gallantry and Several Other Subjects</i>. <i>All Written by Ladies</i>,
+the second volume following in 1694.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">2</a> It may have been the
+nucleus of the collection, however, since it begins the volume,
+and since Briscoe states in "The Bookseller to the Reader"
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">ii</a></span>(sig. A2) that various ladies, hearing that he was going to print
+Olinda's letters, have sent in amorous correspondence of their
+own&mdash;a remark that could indicate some previous circulation in
+manuscript. Another edition (or issue) of the miscellany, with
+a slightly altered title, was advertised in 1697, but no copy of
+this is recorded.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">3</a> Nothing further is heard of <i>Olinda</i> for some
+years, but meanwhile Briscoe became something of a specialist
+in popular epistolary miscellanies, perhaps because he was a
+principal employer of Tom Brown, much of whose output consisted
+of original and translated "familiar letters." In 1718
+Briscoe assembled a two-volume epistolary collection with the
+title <i>Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions</i>;
+this collection was apparently made up of the best and most
+popular items in his miscellanies of the past twenty-five years.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">4</a>
+Here <i>Olinda</i> appears in much more impressive company than the
+anonymous "ladies," for the collection includes the first letter
+of Heloise to Abelard (said to be translated by L'Estrange) with
+actual correspondence and epistolary fiction by Butler, Mrs.
+Behn, Dennis, Otway, Etherege, Dryden, Tom Brown, Mrs. Mary
+Manley, Farquhar, Mrs. Centlivre, and other wits. Another edition
+(or issue) was advertised for W. Chetwood in 1720; and if
+the edition of 1724 ("Corrected. With Additions") is really the
+sixth, as Briscoe's title-page states, <i>Olinda</i> must have reached
+a respectable number of readers.</p>
+
+<p class="in"><i>Olinda</i> enjoyed another distinction, nearly unique for English
+popular fiction before 1700. While by the middle of the
+eighteenth century novel-readers in France were reveling in
+the adventures of the English epigones of Pamela and Clarissa,
+defending their virtue or exhibiting their sensibility in translation,
+the current of literary influence before Defoe ran overwhelmingly
+in the opposite direction. <i>Olinda</i> anticipated the Miss
+Sally Sampsons of sixty years later by appearing in 1695 in a
+French translation as <i>Les Amours d'une belle Angloise: ou la
+vie et les avantures de la jeune Olinde: Ecrites par Elle mesme
+en forme de lettres à un Chevalier de ses amis</i>.<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">5</a> Whether merit
+or mere chance accounted for this unusual occurrence it is impossible
+to say; the translation of <i>Olinda</i> is a faithful one,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">iii</a></span>though the text is at times expanded by the insertion of poems
+into Olinda's letters, with brief interpolated passages which
+rather awkwardly account for their presence. Curiously, the
+volume closes with a list of books printed for Briscoe, indicating
+either that the French translator would do anything to fill up
+space, or that Briscoe may have been exploring the possibilities
+of a French market for his wares.</p>
+
+<p class="in">While <i>Olinda</i> was ascribed merely to an anonymous "young
+lady" in the first edition, the editions of 1718 and 1724 gave it
+to "Mrs. Trotter." This lady, who since 1707 had been the wife
+of the Reverend Patrick Cockburn, a Suffolk curate, was then
+living in relative obscurity (her husband, having lost his living
+at the accession of George I, was precariously supporting his
+family by teaching), though she had enjoyed a certain literary
+success in King William's time and would later be heard from as
+a "learned lady" and writer on ethics. The fact that her maiden
+name was used, though not likely in 1718 to add very much luster
+to Briscoe's collection, and the similarities between the heroine's
+situation and Mrs. Trotter's own early life (to be discussed
+later) make Briscoe's attribution seem worthy of acceptance. It
+is true that if Mrs. Trotter wrote <i>Olinda</i> she did it at fourteen.
+But she had been a child of astonishing precocity; she had produced
+a successful blank-verse tragedy at sixteen, and both Lady
+Mary Wortley Montagu and Jane Austen were to perform similar
+novelistic feats (to say nothing of Daisy Ashford).</p>
+
+<p class="in">Catherine Trotter (1679-1749)<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">6</a> was the daughter of David
+Trotter, a naval commander who died on a voyage in 1683, and
+Sarah Bellenden (or Ballenden), whose connections with the
+Maitland and Drummond families seem to have helped support
+her and her daughter in genteel poverty until she gained a pension
+of £20 per year under Queen Anne; Bishop Burnet was also
+her friend and patron. Catherine, a child prodigy, learned Latin
+and logic, and is said to have taught herself French; she extemporized
+verses in childhood, and at fourteen composed a poem
+on Mr. Bevil Higgons's recovery from the smallpox which is no
+worse than many "Pindarics" of the period. In 1695, however,
+Catherine Trotter established herself as a female wit with the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">iv</a></span>impressive success of her tragedy <i>Agnes de Castro</i>, adapted
+from Mrs. Behn's retelling of an episode from Portuguese history.
+It was produced at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in
+December, with a prologue by Wycherley and with Mr. and Mrs.
+Verbruggen and Colley Cibber in the cast. <i>The Fatal Friendship</i>,
+a tragedy produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1698, had a
+moderate success; two later plays did not. But Mrs. Trotter
+gained the acquaintance of Congreve, Dryden, and Farquhar,
+and was well enough known to be lampooned in <i>The Female
+Wits</i> (1704; acted 1696) along with Mrs. Pix and Mrs. Manley.
+In 1702 she turned to more serious writing, and her <i>Defence of
+the Essay of Humane Understanding</i> and other treatises defending
+Locke's theories against the charge of materialism were impressive
+enough to earn her a flattering letter from Locke himself;
+she also corresponded with Leibniz, who analyzed her
+theories at some length. <i>The History of the Works of the Learned</i>
+printed an essay of hers on moral obligation in 1743, and in 1747
+Warburton contributed a preface to one of her treatises.</p>
+
+<p class="in">If we are willing to admit that <i>Olinda</i> is Mrs. Trotter's work,
+its virtues may be explained in part by seeing it as romanticized
+autobiography. Olinda, like Mrs. Trotter, is a wit and something
+of a beauty in adolescence, a fatherless child living with a prudent
+mother who is anxious to marry her off advantageously, and
+a solicitor of favors from noble or wealthy connections. Of the
+details of her character and circumstances at this time, however,
+no information is certain, and we must rely upon two presumably
+biased contemporary portraits. Mrs. Trotter gets off lightly in
+<i>The Female Wits</i>; she is represented (in "Calista," a small role)
+as being somewhat catty and pretentious, vain of her attainments
+in Latin and Greek (she has read Aristotle in the original, she
+says), but her moral character is not touched upon.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">7</a> Another
+account of her early life, in Mrs. Manley's fictionalized autobiography
+and scandal-chronicle, <i>The Adventures of Rivella</i>
+(1714), may be entirely unreliable; but its author was certainly
+well acquainted with Mrs. Trotter, and what she says of her life
+in the 1690's, what is narrated in <i>Olinda</i>, and what Mrs. Trotter's
+scholarly memoirist Thomas Birch relates are similar in outline,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">v</a></span>similar enough so that we may speculate that the same set of
+facts has been "improved" in <i>Olinda</i>, perhaps maliciously distorted
+in <i>Rivella</i>. Cleander, the Platonic friend of the novel,
+Orontes, the kidnapped bridegroom, and Cloridon, the inconveniently
+married noble lover, appear to be three aspects of
+the same person; for Mrs. Manley tells at length (pp. 64-71) of
+"Calista's" relationship with "Cleander" (identified in the "key"
+to <i>Rivella</i> as Mrs. Trotter and Mr. Tilly).<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">8</a> John Tilly, the
+deputy warden of the Fleet prison, whose mistress Mrs. Manley
+became and remained until 1702, first met her, she says, through
+Mrs. Trotter, who sought her aid in interceding with her cousin
+John Manley, appointed chairman of a committee to look into
+alleged misdemeanors of Tilly as prison administrator. Mrs.
+Trotter, says Mrs. Manley, was a prude in public, not so in private;
+she was the first, "Cleander" said, who ever made him
+unfaithful to his wife. Mrs. Manley goes on, with a tantalizing
+lack of clarity (pp. 101-102):</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[Calista's] Mother being in Misfortunes and indebted
+to him, she had offered her Daughter's Security, he
+took it, and moreover the Blessing of one Night's
+Lodging, which he never paid her back again....
+[Calista] had given herself Airs about not visiting
+<i>Rivella</i>, now she was made the Town-Talk by her
+Scandalous Intreague with <i>Cleander</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p class="in">Whatever the truth about Mrs. Trotter's adolescent amours
+may have been, or whether they have any connection with Olinda's
+fictional ones, must remain a matter for speculation; but the artistic
+merits of <i>Olinda</i> are in no such doubt. Although technically
+it may be called an epistolary novel, its author is no Richardson
+in marshalling the strategies of the epistolary technique. Nevertheless,
+although it is actually a fictional autobiography divided
+somewhat arbitrarily into "letters," the postponement of the letter
+to Cloridon until the end, the introduction of what might be called
+a subplot as Olinda tries to promote Cleander's courtship of
+Ambrisia and notes its progress, the breaking off of the letters
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">vi</a></span>at moments of (mild) suspense, the bringing up of the action to
+an uncompleted present, all these show an awareness of fictional
+mechanics that is far from elementary. Indeed, a contemporary
+critic might go so far as to see in the novel's conclusion
+an anticipation of the "open-ended" realism of plotting so
+much applauded at present; for though Orontes has been got out
+of the way, Olinda has not yet been rewarded with Cloridon's
+hand by a similarly happy turn of fate, and must patiently await
+the demise of his inconvenient wife as anyone outside of melodrama
+might have to do. The contretemps and misunderstandings,
+the trick played on Olinda with regard to Cloridon's fidelity and
+her subsequent undeceiving, the closet-scene and its embarrassments,
+may smack of the hackneyed devices of stage comedy,
+but they are not clumsily handled, and they never make emotional
+mountains out of molehills.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Perhaps the most salient qualities of <i>Olinda</i>, in contrast to
+the fiction of its day, are restraint and control. With the exception
+of the rather ridiculous way in which the complications are
+resolved at the end (Orontes's sequestration and death from
+smallpox), everything in the novel is planned and motivated with
+some care. Inclinations develop slowly and believably; the
+springs of action, barring a few not very fantastic coincidences
+and accidents, are anti-romantic&mdash;almost too much so. Indeed,
+such criteria of the "modern novel" as those proposed by Ian
+Watt<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">9</a> are all modestly but adequately met. Most important, the
+situation and behavior of the heroine, her values, and the world
+in which she lives are (but for their sketchy development) what
+a reader of Jane Austen might take for granted, yet are all but
+unique before 1740.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Here is a middle-class heroine who is fully as moral as
+Pamela, but with a wry sense of humor; she defers to her mother
+as a matter of course when marriage is in question, yet would
+willingly evade parental decrees; she is capable of Moll Flanders's
+examinations of motive, yet sees through her own hypocrisies;
+she lives in London in reduced circumstances and agrees
+to a marriage of convenience although tempted to engage in a
+dashing adultery; and she endures the onset of both love and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">vii</a></span>jealousy without melodramatic or sentimental posturings.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Other technical achievements of <i>Olinda</i> aside, the portrait
+of the heroine as she reveals herself to her confidant is the
+novel's most significant feature. A fictional heroine of this
+early date who can be sententious without being tedious, who
+is moderately and believably witty, who is courted by a goldsmith
+(even though, conformably to the times, he is named
+Berontus) rather than a prince borrowed from <i>Astrée</i>, and who
+satirizes herself soberly for scorning him, who meets her ideal
+lover with a business letter rather than in a shipwreck, and who
+level-headedly fends him off because he is both married and a
+would-be philanderer, is a rarity indeed.</p>
+
+<p class="in"><i>Olinda</i> commends itself to the student of English literary
+history principally for two reasons: because it so ably anticipates
+in embryo so many features which the English domestic
+and realistic novel would develop in its age of maturity and
+popularity, and because we do not yet understand, and need to
+investigate, the cultural factors&mdash;literary, social, and economic&mdash;which
+prevented the kind of achievement it represents from being
+duplicated with any frequency for several decades.</p>
+
+<p>Queens College,<br />
+City University of New York</p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">1.</span></a> Walter Allen, <i>The English Novel</i> (New York, 1968), p. 4.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">viii</a></span></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">2.</span></a> Advertised in the <i>Term Catalogues</i>, Trinity Term, 1693 (II, 466);
+Wing L1784, L1785.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">3.</span></a> It is listed in Harold C. Binkley, "Letter Writing in English
+Literature" (unpublished Harvard dissertation, 1923).</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">4.</span></a> They included <i>Familiar Letters [of] Rochester</i> (2 vols., 1697),
+<i>Familiar and Courtly Letters [of] Voiture</i> (2 vols., 1700), <i>A
+Pacquet from Will's</i> (2nd ed., 1705), <i>The Works of Mr. Thomas
+Brown</i> (2-4 vols., 1707&mdash;), and <i>The Lady's Pacquet of Letters</i>
+(1710). Briscoe was not in every case the printer of the first edition.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">5.</span></a> "A Cologne. Chez *****. MDCXCV." A copy of the volume is in
+the Bibliothèque de <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'l'Arsenal'">l'Arsénal</span> in Paris.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">6.</span></a> See DNB, <i>s. v.</i> "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "Catharine
+Trotter, the First of the Bluestockings," <i>Fortnightly Review</i>, N. S.,
+No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "Catherine
+Trotter&mdash;'the Scots Sappho,'" <i>Scots Magazine</i>, XXXIII (1940), 305-314.
+The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's
+<i>The Works of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn</i> (2 vols., 1751), including
+letters and a prefatory biography.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">7.</span></a> The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society's Publication
+No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by Lucyle
+Hook.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">8.</span></a> Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B.
+Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," <i>MP</i>, XXXIII
+(1935-36), 270-271, for further details.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">9.</span></a> <i>The Rise of the Novel</i> (London, 1957), Chapter I.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<h2>BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE</h2>
+
+<p>The text of this facsimile of <i>Olinda's Adventures</i> (from the second
+volume of <i>Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions</i>
+[1718]) is published with the permission of the Trustees of the Newberry
+Library. The unique recorded copy (in the Bodleian Library) of
+the duodecimo first edition of 1693 is too small and too poorly printed
+to be reproduced in the present series.</p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/cover_page.png" width="50%" height="90%" alt="first page" title="first page" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/i_015.png" width="80%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+<p class="title"><span class="big"><i>Olinda's</i> Adventures:</span><br />
+OR THE<br />
+<em class="gesperrt"><span class="big">AMOURS</span></em><br />
+Of a Young <span class="big">LADY.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">133</a></span></p>
+<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h2>By <i>Mrs.</i> TROTTER.</h2>
+<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%">&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter I.</em></h4>
+
+<p class="salutation"><i>Dear Cleander</i>,</p>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_first.png" class="floatl"
+width="10%" height="10%" alt="I" title="I" />
+<span class="hidden">I</span> Hope I need not tell you how uneasie
+this tedious Absence makes me; for
+I must confess as troublesome as I
+find it, and as much as I Value you,
+I can't but wish you may be able to
+guess at it by what you suffer your
+self: A strange Effect of the highest
+degree of Friendship; for if I had less for you, I
+shou'd not so earnestly desire to hear you are in
+Pain; but such Contradictions are no Mysteries to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">134</a></span>you, who understand so well the little Niceties of
+Friendship. That you may see I study nothing
+more in this Solitude than to oblige you; I've resolv'd
+to employ most part of my time in complying
+with that Request you've often made me, of
+giving you a particular account of all that has
+happen'd to me in my Life; tho' I fear I shall
+lose part of that Esteem which you have hitherto
+preserved for me, by acquainting you with some
+Passages of it, which yet I hope have nothing in
+'em so ill, that the kindness of a Friend mayn't
+find out something in the Circumstances of the
+Story to Excuse: For tho' perhaps I have not always
+been so nicely cautious as a Woman in strictness
+ought, I have never gone beyond the bounds
+of solid Virtue. To put all to the hazard then, I
+will give you a faithful Account of all my Weaknesses.
+My Father dying, left me when I was very
+young, to the Tuition of a Mother, who as you
+know is qualify'd for such a Charge equal to any
+of her Sex; and she indeed perform'd her part as
+well as her small Fortune wou'd permit her, which
+was scarce sufficient to maintain her, in that Rank
+her Birth had placed her. However, she gave me
+all the Education that was necessary; but I believe
+you'll excuse me if I pass over all that occurr'd
+till I was Thirteen, for about that time I began
+to fancy my self a Woman, and the more to perswade
+me to it, I happen'd to be acquainted with
+a Gentleman whose Name was <i>Licydon</i>, who the
+first or second time I saw him, seem'd to have so
+much confidence in me, that he told me a long
+story of his Love, and ever after shew'd me all the
+Letters he either Writ to, or received from his
+Mistress: This you must think did not a little
+please me. and I thought my self as Wise as the
+Gravest Politician, when he ask'd my Advice in
+any of his Affairs, especially when I heard him
+commended by many for a Man of great Parts.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">135</a></span>One day that we were by our selves, we fell into
+a Discourse of Womens making Love; he Argu'd
+that 'twas very unjust to deprive 'em of the satisfaction
+of discovering a Passion, which they were
+as much subject to as Men: I said as much against
+him as I cou'd, but he had more dexterity to manage
+his Argument than I; so that I was easily
+brought to agree with him; but said 'twas well
+that custom was observ'd, since the complaisance
+which was paid by their Sex to ours, would sometimes
+oblige 'em to comply contrary to their Inclination;
+for I cou'd not imagine how they cou'd
+civily refuse a Lady's Intreaties. He told me if
+I wou'd write a Declaration of Love to him, he
+wou'd shew me how it might be Answer'd with a
+great deal of Respect, without any Love. I consented
+to do it, and accordingly did the next day,
+and he return'd me an Answer which satisfied me:
+This, tho' it may seem a trivial thing, you will
+find by the sequel, had like to have produc'd but
+ill Effects. Some time after this, he brought a
+Friend of his to Visit us, who was of a good Family;
+but according to the <i>English</i> custom of breeding the
+younger Sons to Trades; he was a Goldsmith, but
+a great <i>Beaux</i>, and one who seem'd to have a Soul
+above his calling: He ask'd <i>Licydon</i> if he had any
+pretensions to me, which when he assur'd him he
+had not, he told him he was very glad he had not
+a Rival in a Friend; for he was hugely smitten,
+and shou'd need his Assistance in his design; for
+he had observ'd such an intimacy between us, as
+gave him Reason to think he had great influence
+over me; and he was sure he wou'd not deny him,
+if he was not my Lover. <i>Licydon</i> assur'd him he had
+only a Friendship for me, and that he wou'd use all his
+Credit with me to perswade me to receive all His Addresses
+favourably; which he did as soon as he had
+an opportunity. He said all of him that he could
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">136</a></span>imagine most engaging, and especially of the Violence
+of his Passion. I was well enough pleas'd
+with the Love, tho' not with the Lover; for 'tis
+natural at that unthinking Age to covet a croud of
+Admirers, tho' we despise them: But I believe I
+need not confine that Vanity to Youth, many of
+our Sex are troubled with it, when one wou'd
+think they were Old enough to be sensible of the
+Folly, and inconvenience of being continually
+Courted, and haunted by Men they have an indifference,
+or perhaps an aversion for For my part
+I think there is no greater Torment; but I was of
+another Opinion then, and therefore Rally'd at the
+Love, and seem'd not to <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'believe'">blelieve</span> it; which I warrant
+you gave great Encouragement to my new
+Lover, when he heard of it; for 'tis a great Sign
+one wou'd be convinc'd. So I'd best prepare my
+self for an Attack, which I did not expect long: It
+was begun by a <i>Billet Doux</i>, which came first to my
+Mother's Hands; and when she gave it me, she ask'd
+what Answer I wou'd return. I told her I was
+wholly to be Govern'd by her; but if I was to
+follow my own inclination I wou'd not answer it
+at all: My Mother reply'd, she thought it fit I
+shou'd Answer it; for she believ'd I cou'd have no
+aversion to him, and she did not think it an ill
+Match, considering my Circumstances. Then I
+desir'd her to indite a Letter for me, for I saw well
+enough I shou'd not please her. She gave me a
+Copy of one, that without saying any thing that
+was kind, gave him cause enough to despair; but
+I cou'd not dissemble my Looks and Actions, in
+which he observ'd so much Coldness, that tho' several
+Letters pass'd between us, that wou'd have
+given hopes to a Man the least apt to presume;
+he was often half an hour with me alone, without
+speaking one Word to me. At last he complain'd
+to <i>Licydon</i> of the strange contradictions in what I
+did, and what I Writ; for whenever he begun to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">137</a></span>speak to me of his Love, I check'd him with such severe
+Looks, and turn'd the Discourse in such a
+manner, that he durst proceed no further, tho' my
+Letters seem'd much to his Advantage. <i>Licydon</i>
+perswaded him (as perhaps he thought himself) that
+'twas only my Modesty, and that perhaps I shou'd
+be more emboldned, if he cou'd get my Mother's
+consent to his Proposals. <i>Berontus</i>, for that was
+his Name, was as well satisfy'd with this, as if I
+had told him so my self; and away goes he immediately
+to my Mother, and tells her he's stark staring
+mad in Love with her Daughter: The next
+thing they talk of is Joynture, and Settlements, <i>&amp;c.</i>
+and in fine they agree; So I am call'd for, and
+commanded to look upon this Spark as one that
+must shortly be my Husband; to give us the more
+freedom, my Mother leaves us together. 'Well,
+Madam, (says he) I have no Opposites to struggle
+with, your Mother has given me her consent,
+and you have given me hopes that you will not
+refuse me yours. What shou'd I do in this perplexity?
+I had a firm Resolution never to Marry
+him; but I found my Mother so much set upon it,
+that I durst not let it be known; besides, I had engag'd
+my self so far in Obedience to her, that I
+did not know how to come off; but for the present
+I wou'd be whimsical, and take time to consider
+what I shou'd do hereafter. So I put on a pet, and
+said, <i>Berontus</i>, I don't know what advantage you
+think you have more than before; but I'm sure
+a Lover wou'd have found another way of Courting
+his Mistress, than by her Mother; and it may
+be you'll find your self never the nearer my Heart
+for having gain'd her: I hate a Man that will depend
+upon any other for my Favour than my self.
+'Cruel Creature, <i>says he</i>, what pleasure do you
+take in tormenting me? You know that I love
+you with the greatest respect imaginable, and
+that I can't be happy but by you alone. I never
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">138</a></span>had Recourse to your Mother till you had encourag'd
+me, and gave me leave to say it; your
+usage of me is very unjust. I knew well enough
+he was in the Right; but I wou'd not know it:
+So that we parted both much dissatisfied. How
+his Thoughts were employ'd I can't pretend to
+tell you; but I was continually contriving how to
+get out of this troublesome Affair. I cou'd find
+no way but to tell him sincerely, that all that I
+had writ in his favour was by constraint; that I
+was too young to think of Love, or Marriage, and
+so trust to his Generosity; and prevail with him,
+if possible, to let it fall of his side. The first time
+I had an opportunity of putting my design in Execution,
+I thought the poor Lover wou'd never
+have liv'd to see me beyond those Years which
+serv'd for a pretence for my refusal; but he was
+Wise enough to baulk me, 'If, <i>says he</i> (after he
+was come out of his Dumps; for he was a quarter
+of an hour without saying any thing. You see he
+was much given to silence) 'If I did not imagine
+it your Hate that only study'd an Excuse, I
+shou'd wait with a great deal of satisfaction, till
+you were pleas'd to make me happy: But as it
+is, I shall die a thousand times with fear, that
+some other more happy in your inclinations than
+I, will rob me of you for ever. He said in fine,
+abundance of fine things, to perswade me to engage
+my self to him; but I wou'd not consent to
+it; and all I could say to him, was as little prevalent
+to make him desist his suit. He wou'd wait
+the Patriarch's Prenticeship rather than lose his Angel:
+Would it not be a sad Business if he should
+lose her after all? But I am afraid he's like, for
+her thoughts cannot be brought so low; they towre
+a little above his Shop, perhaps too high for her
+Fortune; but she's something too young to consider
+that, or to prefer her Interest to her Humour.
+But to go on with my Story; my Mother was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">139</a></span>well enough satisfied to have the Match delay'd;
+so that I thought I had nothing to do for a Year
+or two, but to wish some Accident might intervene
+to hinder it. But it was not long before a
+Servant we had in the House found me other Employment;
+I had complain'd of some Negligences
+she had been guilty of, when my Mother was out
+of Town, which were occasion'd by a fondness she
+had for one that waited upon <i>Licydon</i>: Upon
+which she had been like to be turn'd away, and
+being of a revengeful Spirit, she cou'd never forgive
+it. She had observ'd, that <i>Licydon</i> often gave me,
+and I him, Letters in private; for when he had
+no other opportunity, he us'd to give me those he
+sent, or receiv'd from his Mistress, as we were taking
+leave, when I conducted him to the Door;
+which I often did, whilst my Mother was entertaining
+other Company; and I return'd 'em when
+I saw him again. This malicious Wench hoping
+to find something in 'em that might prejudice me,
+to <i>Licydon</i>'s Man (over whom it seems she had a
+great Influence) that she heard his Master was a
+great Poet, and that she had a great mind to see
+some of his Works, if he could contrive to let her
+into his Closet when he was abroad: The Servant
+who suspected nothing, promis'd her he wou'd let
+her know the first time his Master left his Key,
+which he very seldom did. He kept his Word
+with her, and after she had look'd over all his Papers,
+at last she found that Letter which I spoke
+of at the beginning. She knew my Hand well enough,
+and no doubt with Joy, put it into her
+Pocket, without being perceiv'd by the Fellow;
+and to lose no time, went presently to <i>Berontus</i>; to
+whom she said, That she was extreamly concern'd
+to see him deceiv'd by two that he rely'd so much
+upon, as her young Mistress and <i>Licydon</i>: And
+therefore she could not forbear telling him, that
+she had discover'd an Intrigue between 'em, and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">140</a></span>that they were so familiar, that if they were not
+Married already, she was sure they wou'd be very
+suddenly; with abundance of Circumstances of
+her own Invention, to make the Story more plausible.
+He did not believe her at first; but when
+she show'd him the Letter, it put him beyond
+doubt; so that after he had given her his
+Word, whatever Measures he took, not to discover
+her, she went away very well pleas'd, that she
+had depriv'd me of a Husband, and receiv'd a
+good Reward for it. <i>Berontus</i> did not give his
+Rage and Grief leave to abate; but in the height
+of both, writ a Letter to <i>Licydon</i>, and another to
+me. You can't imagine how much I was surprized
+when I read it, and found it was a Chalenge,
+(for in that Confusion he had mistaken the Direction)
+to one whom he accus'd of betraying him
+in what was dearer to him than his Life: I cou'd
+not guess who it was design'd for, till <i>Licydon</i> came
+in, and show'd me a Letter he had just receiv'd,
+which he believ'd was for me; and desir'd me to
+tell him who that happy Man was <i>Berontus</i> complain'd
+so much of. I saw plainly then he was
+jealous of <i>Licydon</i>; but was not able to Divine the
+Cause: He gave me the Letter which contain'd
+these Words;</p>
+
+<p class="in"><i>Wou'd to Heaven you had told me Truth, when you
+said you were too young to think of Love; you have
+thought of it too much</i> Olinda, <i>for my quiet; but you
+were born to Torment me. It is my Fate, why do I
+complain of you? Pity me, if I fall by my happy Rivals
+Hand, and if you can, forgive me if I survive him.
+This is the last time I design to trouble you: I wish he
+may be more faithful to you than he has been to me:
+Adieu, Madam, pity the unfortunate</i> Berontus.</p>
+
+<p class="in"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">141</a></span></p><p>The Letter seem'd so full of Distraction, that I
+cou'd not chuse but pity him; for I really thought
+him Mad: But I did not think fit to shew <i>Licydon</i>
+that which was design'd for him. When he was gone
+I sent for <i>Berontus</i>, but he refus'd to come, and
+'twas with much ado after three or four times sending
+he was prevail'd with. I told him by what
+means I had seen both his Letters; but that they appear'd
+so great Mysteries to me, that I sent for him
+to explain 'em. 'Twas long before he wou'd let
+me know the Cause of his suspicions; but I was so
+importunate, that at last he show'd me the Love
+Letter I had writ to <i>Licydon</i>: Can I have a greater
+Proof than this, says he? I confess, reply'd I,
+you have Reason to think as you do; but you are
+much deceiv'd; and then I told him upon what
+occasion it was writ: I saw very well he did not
+believe me, and I knew not how to convince him,
+unless I cou'd find <i>Licydon</i>'s Answer, which at least
+wou'd clear him. I found it by good Fortune,
+and brought it to <i>Berontus</i>. Read this, said I, and
+you'll see whether it be true, that I Writ to <i>Licydon</i>
+in earnest: You have nothing to accuse him
+of. After he had read it, he cry'd out in a violent
+manner, I have wrong'd the innocent <i>Olinda</i>,
+and I deserve to be hated by her for ever. Be not
+so transported I return'd coldly enough, I may
+love <i>Licydon</i>, tho' he be so indifferent: The Postscript
+fully clears you, reply'd <i>Berontus</i>, and makes
+me not dare to ask you to forgive me: Upon
+which I took it, and read these Words, which I
+had quite forgot. <i>I did not think one cou'd write so
+prettily of Love, and be so insensible of it; How happy
+wou'd that Man be, that shou'd receive such a one
+dictated by your Heart, as well as Hand.</i> I am sure
+none cou'd return such an Answer to <i>Olinda</i>.
+This Complement did me so much Kindness, that
+one wou'd think I shou'd be a better Friend to 'em
+than you know I am. <i>Berontus</i> left me almost as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">142</a></span>angry at himself, as he was before at us; and did
+not come near me for some time after. When I
+told <i>Licydon</i> what had pass'd between us, he was
+amaz'd: He Examin'd his Man, who had been in
+the Chamber, who confess'd the Truth; and
+our Servant, when she was tax'd with it, hardly
+deny'd it; and thus the whole Matter was discover'd;
+which had it not been for a happy Mistake,
+had probably cost one, or both of them, their
+Lives, and me my Honour. Two days after <i>Licydon</i>
+was Married, and so our Acquaintance broke
+off; for tho' his Wife came to see me and often
+press'd me to keep a Correspondence with her; I
+never did, for I knew she had been very Jealous
+of me before she Marry'd, and I would not hazard
+the reviving it. <i>Berontus</i> easily obtain'd his Pardon
+of me (for you know I'm very good Natur'd)
+and so he continu'd to Visit me, taking all the
+pains he could to please me, without any thing
+remarkable happening, till three Monthes after,
+his Elder Brother, who had been at his Travels,
+and was reported to be dead, return'd; so that he
+was no longer able to keep the Conditions he had
+made with my Mother; for he had nothing to
+live upon but his Trade; which I afterwards heard
+he neglected very much, and took to that usual
+remedy of Cares, Drinking: He said it was to cure
+his Grief for the loss of his Mistress, and truly
+that is to be lamented, when the loss of a good
+Estate is the Cause of it. However he is comforted
+for both now, and Married to a Woman with a
+great Fortune. I was very glad to be rid of my
+Lover, tho' I was sorry 'twas by his misfortune.</p>
+
+<p>Thus <i>Cleander</i>, you have an account of the first
+Adventures of my Life; which made me early
+know some uneasie Hours: By the next Post I'll
+acquaint you with a Catalogue of Lovers (that is,
+they were my <i>En passant</i>, in taking their Rounds,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">143</a></span>and serv'd better to divert me than the most
+Romantick Constancy, without giving themselves,
+or me any trouble) but it's indeed time
+to make an end. Adieu my Friend, think of me
+always, and, Write as often as you can to
+<span class="signature"><i>Olinda</i>.</span></p>
+<hr />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/olindaportrait.jpg" width="50%" height="80%" alt="olinda" title="olinda" />
+<p class="caption"><i>M. V<sup>dr</sup> Gucht Sculp</i></p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big"><i>Olinda</i>.</span></p>
+
+<p style="margin-left: 30%"><i>Vol. 2</i><span style="margin-left: 50%"><i>pag. 136</i></span></p>
+</div>
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_fivea.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter</em> <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'II.'">V.</span></h4>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_fivea.png" width="10%" class="floatl" height="10%" alt="T" title="T" />
+<span class="hidden">T</span>O proceed in Order to my Relation, I
+must begin with one, who in respect of
+his Years as well as the time in which I
+knew him, demands the Pre-eminence.
+He was a <i>Dutch</i> Coll. about Threescore; Don't
+you think one of his Country and Years, will
+make a pretty Lover? But Old as he was, he had
+a Mistress in the House with him. I was younger
+than she, and I believe I may say, without
+Vanity, I had some other Advantages over her;
+so that the Old Spark had a Month's mind to me;
+and I, partly to plague her, and partly to divert
+my self, received all his Addresses with a great
+deal of complaisance. I cou'd perceive her fret
+within her self, tho she durst not shew it. She
+was in great fear of losing him; for the Man's
+Money had such Charms as aton'd for his want
+of 'em, tho' he was Ugliness in perfection; (if
+that ben't Nonsense) and 'twas the best Jest in
+the World to me, to see him squint an Amorous
+Glance upon me with one Eye, whilst 'tother was
+watching whether she took Notice of him; for
+we Lodg'd in one House together; so that I cou'd
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">144</a></span>not avoid often being with them both, nor indeed
+did I endeavour it; for I took a malicious pleasure
+in laughing at their Follies: Since there's nothing
+so ridiculous as an Antiquated Lover, who has
+the Vanity to believe he is belov'd, and a Jealous
+Woman, who has not Discretion enough to hide
+it. That I might be sufficiently entertain'd with
+both, one day I began a Discourse of Young and
+old Lovers, preferring the last as more Constant,
+more Fond, and more Solid than the First: He
+Smil'd, and took me by the Hand, and gave me a
+thousand Commendations for the Wisdom of my
+choice; Nay, and so far forgot himself, that he
+apply'd it to himself, and said such passionate
+things as wou'd have been extravagant from a
+young Fellow. She with a great deal of Heat
+contradicted all I had said, and told all the Impertinences
+and Inconveniences one finds in an
+Old Man (which she experimentally knew better
+than I) without considering how far it
+touch'd him, she was so earnest against me.
+This made him so Angry, and her so out of
+Countenance when she reflected so upon what she
+had said, that I was never better diverted:
+So she did not know what Excuse to make for
+her self; and in fine, the Dispute grew so high,
+that at last they parted. Upon this the Coll.
+was hotter upon me than ever; he pester'd me
+continually with his Visits, and the Brute so
+little understood my Raillery, that he pretended
+an Interest in me, and wou'd check me when
+he saw any body younger than himself with
+me; but I gave him such Answers, that he did
+not know what to make of me. When he had
+Orders for <i>Flanders</i>, he told me I must prepare
+my self to go with him, and I should
+live as great and happy as a Queen; I said I
+wou'd go withal my Heart, upon Condition his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">145</a></span>Son should be always with us: The Old Man
+started, my Son, Child, what would you do with
+him? I think he is fitter company for me than you,
+says I, and so I left him, so asham'd, that he shunn'd
+seeing me ever after. He e'en went to <i>Flanders</i>
+without me, and vow'd, young as he was, he wou'd
+never have any thing to do with Woman more.
+Thus I was rid of my Old Impertinent, whose
+place was soon supply'd by one of those gay youths
+who never wait for the slow gifts of pity, but Ravish
+little Favours from us, as if they were their
+due; who make it impossible for us to think it a
+Crime to give what they ask with so much boldness;
+and who are always endeavouring to divert
+her they design to please. He Courted me with
+Balls, Musick, and Entertainments, and in the
+midst of 'em wou'd now and then whisper some
+pretty Love Maggots. I was first acquainted with
+him at a Relations of mine at <i>Greenwich</i>: He was
+an Officer in the Army, and was then in the Camp
+upon <i>Black-Heath</i>; and being very well known in
+the House where I was, he came often there. He
+had heard several things of me to my Advantage,
+(for Fame generally flatters or detracts) as, that I
+sung well, was Handsom, and so forth: And I was
+told, that he was very well accomplish'd, and the
+Neatest, Prettiest, Gentilest young fellow that was
+to be seen in the whole Army: So that we had
+both a great desire to see one another, and were
+very well acquainted the first time we met: He
+told me he had a violent Passion for me, and he
+did not doubt but I had a little Love for him; he
+came to see me every Day whilst I was there; carried
+me to all the Diversions that were to be had
+about the Country; and when I was going to <i>London</i>,
+he told me he would soon follow me: But as soon
+as you come to Town, Faith <i>Olinda</i>, you shall
+Write to me, as you hope to see me again; for I
+can't live without hearing you Arriv'd safe. So I
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">146</a></span>Writ a thousand little mad things, and he Answer'd
+me at the same Rate, only a great deal of
+Airy Love mingled with it. The following Week
+he came to see me, and from that day I was never
+suffered to rest for one frolick or other: All the
+time he staid, I liv'd a pleasant sort of a Life, till he
+went to Fight abroad, and got two or three new
+Mistresses to divert, for those sort of Men never remember
+the Absent; their Love never enters the
+Heart, nor do they often gain ours; they seldom
+fail to please indeed, and they force us to think of
+'em sometimes whether we will or not; but they
+are neither Discreet, nor Constant enough to go any
+further: I suppose he forgot me as soon as he left
+me, and I was not much behindhand with him. After
+he was gone, I had scarce a breathing time before another
+of his Profession, more serious, and more designing,
+succeeded him: He had a good Estate, and
+pass'd in the World for a Man of Honour, and
+therefore was Received by my Mother favourably
+enough. I neither lik'd, nor dislick'd him; but
+treated him with Civility, till I found out that his
+designs were not very Honourable; and then I
+thought it time to alter my Behaviour: I forbid
+him to see me, and when he came to our Lodgings,
+I was deny'd to him, tho' he knew I was at home;
+upon which he left off coming, and when some of
+his Comrades ask'd him the Reason, he told them,
+he knew me too well, and that he did not think a
+Creature so young cou'd be so Lew'd. Observe,
+my Friend, how unhappy Women are, who are
+thus expos'd to lose either their Virtue, or their
+Honour; if I had comply'd with him, perhaps
+none wou'd have been more careful of my Fame
+than he: But how much my Choice is to be preferr'd,
+none but those who have experienced the unexpressible
+satisfaction it gives can know. I heard of
+it with a great deal of indifference, and did not so
+much as hate the Author of the scandal. The next
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">147</a></span>in waiting was a <i>French Beaux</i>: He had a great
+stock of Wit, but more Vanity, a mighty Flatterer,
+and one who took much pains to perswade credulous
+Women that he lov'd them; and if he succeeded, he
+always forsook 'em, and sometimes gratify'd
+his Vanity to their Cost, who had been indiscreet
+enough to give him occasion. He laid his Baits to
+catch me, he Vow'd, and Swore, and Danc'd, and
+Sung eternally by turns; but I was too wary to be
+caught, tho' he made me a hundred Protestations, I
+was the only Woman he ever did, or ever cou'd
+Love; follow'd me where ever I went, and in
+spight of the greatest Rigour I cou'd use, wou'd
+not forbear haunting me. I did not know how to
+free my self from the Impertinence of this Fop;
+but I thought if I cou'd convince him of one Act
+of Inconstancy, he wou'd not have the Confidence
+to trouble me any more: I had many contrivances
+in Order to it, but at last I fix'd upon one that was
+probable enough to take with one of his Humour.
+I Writ a Letter (disguising my Hand) as from a
+Woman extreamly in Love with him, and desir'd
+him to tell me sincerely whither he was engaged or
+not; for I was too just to rob any Woman of his
+Heart, and too nice to be content with a part of it.
+I told him if he was free, I wou'd meet him, the
+next day at the Bird-Cage in the Park: He sent a
+very obliging answer to the unknown Lady; and said,
+he was passionately in Love with her Wit; that if
+her Beauty were Answerable, he must be undone;
+however 'twould be such a pleasing Ruin, that he
+waited with the highest impatience for the appointed
+hour, when he might assure her by word of Mouth,
+his Heart was wholly at her dispose. Just as I had
+done Reading this Letter he came in, and for a
+Proof of his Constancy, shew'd me that which I had
+sent him, with another, which he said was the Answer
+he design'd to send; wherein he told her, he
+was already so deeply in Love, 'twas impossible for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">148</a></span>him to change; with abundance of fine things of
+the Person he Lov'd. This was good sport for me,
+and I had much ado to keep my Countenance; I
+us'd all my Rhetorick to perswade him to stay with
+me; a thing I had never desir'd of him before, and
+now 'twas in vain: He pretended earnest business,
+and went long before the Hour, he was so very
+impatient. When he was gone, I chang'd my
+Clothes, took a Lady with me, who was Privy to
+the Affair, and went to the aforesaid Place. We
+were in Masks, and it being duskish, he did not
+know us; but after I had banter'd him for some
+time, I discover'd my self: I cannot describe to
+you the different Passions that affected him; sometimes
+he was in a Rage with me for putting such
+a Deceit upon him, sometimes he wou'd frame
+weak Excuses for what he had done, and sometimes
+he was not able to speak at all for Grief, that he
+was not only disappointed of a new Mistress, but
+had lost all hopes of gaining one he had Courted so
+long, with so much Assiduity. I went home, as
+well pleas'd with losing one, as I have sometimes
+been with making a Conquest, in full hopes I shou'd
+be plagued with him no more, and I was not deceiv'd.
+You see, <i>Cleander</i>, what a Miscellany of
+Lovers, if I may call 'em so, I have had, all of different
+humours, but none that had found out
+the Secret to please me: They have done enough
+if they contribute any thing to your diversion, and
+made a sufficient Recompence for all their former
+Impertinence to</p>
+
+<p class="signature">
+<span class="r4"><i>Your faithful Friend</i></span></p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="right">Olinda.</span>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_three.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter III.</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">149</a></span></h4>
+
+<p class="salutation"><i>My Friend</i>,</p>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_three.png" width="10%" class="floatl" height="10%" alt="T" title="T" />
+<span class="hidden">T</span>HE Reflections you made upon my two
+last are so Just, so Profitable, and so Pleasant,
+that thro' them I see the Author's
+great Capacity, that can make so good
+use of such little things; and while I read, bless
+my kind Fate that made you my Friend, when the
+Good and Wise are so scarce; and wonder how so
+particular a Blessing came to be my Lot; which
+more than doubly satisfies for all I suffer'd by
+<i>Clarinda</i>'s falseness. I believe you think it strange
+I never mention'd her, in any of the Passages of my
+Life, since it was before many that I have told
+you of, that I knew and lov'd her: But I could
+not have Nam'd her without some Marks of kindness,
+that I either show'd, or receiv'd from her,
+which I would willingly forget, and cou'd not now
+speak of her, but when I put your Friendship in
+compensation with her Ingratitude. But since I
+am fall'n upon this Subject, I will let you know a
+little better than you do, the only Woman that I
+ever trusted, not with any Secret, for you see I
+then had none of consequence; but with my Love,
+and in that she betray'd me. Her Sister often told
+me, she was sorry to see so sincere a Friendship bestow'd
+upon one that knew so little how to Value
+it; that <i>Clarinda</i> was the same to all, which she
+pretended to be only for me: That she was always
+fondest of her new acquaintance, and wou'd Sacrifice,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">150</a></span>or Ridicule the Old, the better to Caress
+'em: But I knew there had been some Quarrels betwixt
+them, and therefore wou'd not believe it, till
+I found it too true; and then my partiality for her,
+chang'd into as great an Error on the other hand,
+for I involv'd the whole Sex in her Faults, and
+with <i>Aristotle</i> (I hope one may condemn ones self
+with <i>Aristotle</i>) Repented that I had ever Trusted a
+Woman. I don't know whether I forgot I was
+one, or whither I had the Vanity to think my self
+more perfect than the rest; but I resolv'd none of
+the Sex was capable of Friendship; and continu'd
+in that Opinion till I knew <i>Ambrisia</i>, who (if one
+may judge by the Rule of Contraries, convinces me
+of injustice) for she is just <i>Clarinda</i>'s Antipodes.
+<i>Clarinda</i> loves new Faces, and professes a particular
+kindness at first sight; <i>Ambrisia</i> is a long time before
+she goes beyond Civility, and never does but
+to those whom she has well observ'd, and found
+'em Worthy: <i>Clarinda</i> will Rail at one Friend to
+engage another: <i>Ambrisia</i> <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'can't'">cant</span> hear an innocent
+person, tho' her Enemy, accus'd without defending
+'em: <i>Clarinda</i> will be one day fond to extravagance,
+and the next as indifferent for the same person:
+<i>Ambrisia</i> is always the same, and where once she
+loves, she never changes: <i>Clarinda</i> is easily angry:
+<i>Ambrisia</i> is perhaps too mild. <i>Clarinda</i> has Wit indeed,
+but 'tis not temper'd by Judgment, so that it
+makes her often do, and say a hundred things that
+call her discretion in question: <i>Ambrisia</i> has a Solid
+and piercing Judgment, one wou'd <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'think'">thing</span> all she
+says was the Result of premeditation, she speaks
+such Wise and such surprizing things, and yet her
+Answers are so ready, that one wou'd Swear she
+did not think at all; her Actions are always most
+regular; I believe she never cou'd accuse her self
+of an imprudent one. This is a true and unprejudic'd
+Character of both; and if you wonder how I
+cou'd love a Woman with such gross Faults, I
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">151</a></span>must tell you, some of them I did not know then;
+some I excus'd, for I did not expect perfection, and
+some my partial kindness made me cover with the
+Name of some Neighbouring Virtue. You know,
+<i>Ambrisia</i> has as great advantages of <i>Clarinda</i> in Body
+as in Mind: I have often heard you praise her outward
+Beauty, and now I have shew'd you the Beauties
+of her Soul, tho' they are far greater than I can
+express, give me leave to wish her yours. Forgive me
+if I mingle a little self-Interest in my wishes for you,
+I can't resist a thought of joy for the hopes of finding
+two Noble Friends in one, by such a happy Union:
+Think of it <i>Cleander</i>; you only deserve one another. I
+know you will bid me take your advice, and shew
+you the way; but I shall tell you things that will convince
+you, my refusal is reasonable. I was just fifteen
+years old when a particular Friend of my Mothers
+buried her Husband; whose Grief was so great, that
+my Mother durst hardly leave her; she staid with her
+Night and Day, and manag'd all her Affairs for
+her. She went to <i>Cloridon</i>'s, who had had a Friendship
+for the Deceas'd; (for they were forc'd to
+make use of that, and his Authority in a business,
+wherein the Widdow had lik'd to be wrong'd) but
+Men of his Quality are not always at Leisure, and
+must be waited on; so that tho' my Mother went
+two or three times, she did not see him, and having
+other Affairs of her own, and her Friends in hand,
+besides being oblig'd to be much with her, she
+cou'd not Watch his Hours: However 'twas a
+thing of too great consequence to be neglected: So
+she Writ a Letter to him, and Order'd me to carry
+it, and to deliver it into his own Hand. I went
+often to his Lodgings before I cou'd speak with
+him, and carry'd <i>Clarinda</i> with me: At last I was
+appointed an hour when I shou'd certainly meet
+with him, and she happen'd to be so engag'd, she
+cou'd not possibly go with me. I knew no body
+else I cou'd use so much freedom with, and was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">152</a></span>forc'd to go alone. I did not wait long before I
+was admitted, and he approach'd me with that awful
+Majesty which is peculiar to him; and that commands
+respect from all that see him. Whilst <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: 'he' should be omitted">he</span>
+he held the Letter I gave him, I look'd at him
+sometimes; but still I met his Eyes, so that I cou'd
+not view him well, tho' I saw enough to think him
+the Charming'st Man in the World: He ask'd my
+Name, and whose Daughter I was? which when I
+told him, he said he knew my Father very well;
+that he was a Worthy Man, and that for his sake
+he wou'd do any thing for me that lay within his
+Power. I thank'd him, tho' I took it for a Courtier's
+Complement, and desir'd an Answer to the business
+I came about. <i>I will go my self instantly</i>, says he, <i>to
+see what can be done in it, and give you an Account of
+it in the Afternoon; but there's so much Company at my
+Lodgings, that 'tis not a convenient place for you: Can't
+you come somewhere else?</i> Yes my Lord, <i>says I</i>, very
+innocently, where you please: <i>if you will be in a
+Hackney Coach then, at Five a Clock by</i> Covent-Garden
+<i>Church, I will come to you, and let you know what I can
+do for your Friend</i>. I told him I would, and went
+away very well satisfy'd with him, for I had no
+<span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'apprehensions'">apprehensons</span> of any design, from a Man of his
+Character. You know all the World thinks him
+the fondest Husband upon Earth, and that he never
+had a thought of any Woman but his Wife, since
+he Marry'd her. This made me secure, and I did
+not fail to go at the appointed hour. My Mother
+knew nothing of it till afterwards; for I did not see
+her that day. When he came to me, he told me,
+what he had done; inform'd himself of some things
+that were necessary for him to know, that related
+to the business, and assur'd me he wou'd do the
+Widow Justice. Then he renew'd his Promise to
+me with Protestations, that I shou'd command him
+as far as his Authority or Interest cou'd go; and
+beg'd me to make use of him either for my Relations,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">153</a></span>or my self, when ever I had occasion. After he
+had made me some Speeches of my Wit and Beauty,
+we parted, and as soon as I saw my Mother, I
+told her all that pass'd between us. She was extreamly
+pleas'd to have so great a Man her Friend;
+especially, one that she had no Reason to suspect of
+any ill Design, since he had taken no advantage of
+so favourable an opportunity as I had given him to
+discover himself, if he had any; nor had not so
+much as desir'd to continue the Correspondence.
+The next day the business was concluded more to
+our satisfaction than was expected. Sometime after
+this, a Gentleman of my Mothers acquaintance
+told her, he had a mind for a Commission in the
+Army, and that he would give a considerable sum
+of Money to any Body that would procure it.
+My Mother said she'd try her Interest, and made
+me Write to <i>Cloridon</i> about it. He sent me an
+obliging Answer, and desir'd to see me at the same
+Place where we met before, that I might give him
+an exact Account of the Person I recommended,
+and Answer some Questions about him more particularly
+than I cou'd do by Writing. I did so
+in the first part of our Conversation; and then he
+began to talk of the many ills that Attend greatness,
+of which he said Flattery was the chief; for
+it was the greatest Unhappiness to be sooth'd in
+ones Faults: <i>But</i> Olinda, continu'd he, <i>in you I see
+all that Sincerity and Ingenuity that is requisite for a
+Friend, and I shou'd think my self very Happy, if you
+wou'd let me see you sometimes; if you wou'd tell me of
+my Faults, and what the World says of me</i>. You Honour
+me <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'too'">to</span> much my Lord, <i>says I</i>, but you have
+taken such care to make all Virtues your own, that
+there's no room left for Flattery, or Correction.
+To be short, after a great many Compliments of
+this Nature he told me, 'twou'd be an Act of so
+great goodness, that he was sure I cou'd not deny
+him. But what will the World think, <i>says I</i>, of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">154</a></span>such private Meetings? <i>If neither you, nor I, tell it,
+it won't be known</i>, says he, <i>as it should if I came to Visit:
+you. So that I may have the same Innocent Pleasure of
+seeing you, which you wou'd not deny me in Publick, without
+making any Noise: And since I assure you I have only
+a Friendship for you, it can't shock your Virtue</i>. I neither
+granted, nor deny'd him his Request; for I did not
+know whither I shou'd do the first, and cou'd not
+resolve to do the last; both because it might be a
+hindrance to our business, and because I was very
+well pleas'd with his Conversation. Nothing cou'd
+be more agreeable; he is a Man of as much Sense,
+and as great Address, as any I ever knew: But
+what is more to be commended and wondred at in
+a Statesman, he never promis'd any thing that he
+did not perform. He gave me his Word for the
+Commission I desir'd; appointed me a day when I
+shou'd meet him to receive it; and kept it punctually.
+These were such great Obligations, that I
+cou'd not but have some acknowledgments for 'em.
+There was nothing talk'd of in our House, but
+<i>Cloridon</i>'s Generosity; and about that time, all the
+Town rung of some great Actions he had then
+perform'd: So that all things Contributed to encrease
+my Esteem of him. I Writ him a Letter of
+Thanks, and he told me in his Answer, that he
+desir'd no other Recompence for all he cou'd do for
+me, but to see me sometimes. I consider'd, that
+there was no danger in seeing a Man, that was so
+great a Lover of his Lady; and that profess'd only
+a Friendship for me: That if ever he shou'd change,
+I cou'd easily forbear it, and that whatever happen'd,
+my Virtue was a sufficient Guard. So I
+consented to it, without letting my Mother know
+any thing of it. But I must delay telling you
+what these secret Meetings produc'd; for time and
+Paper fails me, and will scarce give me leave to
+assure you that I am</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="r8">
+<i>Your tenderest Friend</i></span><br />
+<span class="right">Olinda.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_four.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter IV.</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">155</a></span></h4>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_four.png" width="10%" class="floatl" height="10%" alt="Y" title="Y" />
+<span class="hidden">Y</span>OU wou'd pity rather than chide me, <i>Cleander</i>,
+if you knew the Cause of my not
+Writing to you all this while. I have not
+been one moment alone for this Fortnight
+past, but condemn'd to entertain a mix'd company,
+all of different Humours, different ways of Living, and
+of Conversing; so that 'twas almost impossible to please
+one without Contradicting anothers Humour. You
+may judge how uneasie this was to me; for I've often
+told you, I had rather be all my Life alone, than
+with a Company that is not chosen: That I sometimes
+prefer Solitude even to the best, and that I
+had now retir'd to avoid the World: But I find one
+never enjoys any thing without disturbance that
+one places one's happiness in; and I was to blame
+to expect a singular Fate shou'd be cut out for me.
+But whatever Accident deprives me of any thing
+else I Love, I can never be unfortunate, if <i>Cleander</i>
+continues to be my Friend. You may remember I
+broke off my last, where I had resolv'd to see <i>Cloridon</i>,
+as he desir'd. We met as often as we cou'd,
+extreamly to both our satisfactions: He told me all
+his little uneasinesses, and had so great a Confidence,
+in me, that he discover'd some Intreagues of State
+to me, that are yet unknown to some that think
+they are not strangers to the most secret transactions
+of the Court; and he never undertook any of
+his own Affairs of greatest moment, without asking
+my Advice. Thus we liv'd for two Months, and
+nothing past that gave me Reason to repent an
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">156</a></span>Action, that was not ill in it self; but might be so
+by the Consequences of it, till one day, when he
+had been telling me several things which concern'd
+him nearly: <i>But there's one Secret</i>, says he, Olinda,
+<i>that I have never told you yet, tho' it takes up all my
+Heart: But 'tis that I believe you know it too well
+already</i>. I said, I cou'd not so much as guess at it.
+<i>What</i>, Olinda <i>interrupted, is it possible you shou'd be Ignorant,
+that I am the most in Love of any Man in the
+World? How cou'd you imagine, I that knew you so well
+cou'd have only a Cold Respect or Friendship for you? No
+no</i>, Olinda, <i>I Love you; I love you Ardently; I cannot
+live unless you give me leave to tell you so; and to hope
+that you will one day return it</i>. I was so amaz'd at this
+Discourse, I did not know what to Answer: It
+vex'd me to be oblig'd to alter my way of Living
+with him; but I did not find my self so Angry at
+his Love as I ought. However, I disguis'd my
+thoughts, and put on all the Severity that is needful
+in such Cases. I have more Reason to be displeas'd
+with such a Declaration from you my
+Lord, <i>said I</i>, than any other: You that say you
+knew me so well; What have you seen in me to Encourage
+it? Have I ever given you occasion to
+suspect my Virtue? Or is it that you are tired with
+my Conversation, and therefore take this most effectual
+means to be freed from it? <i>Inhumane Fair!</i>
+said he, <i>Must you hate me because I love you? can you
+Resolve not to let me see you, only because you know I desir'd
+it more than before?</i> In short, he said the most
+passionate things that a Lover can imagine; and
+tho' I found he mov'd my Heart too much, I dissembled
+well enough to hide it from him. Nothing
+he said, cou'd prevail with me to see him, and I
+hop'd Absence wou'd help me to forget him. He
+Writ many melancholly Letters to me, telling me
+all the Court took notice of his Grief; that it
+would shortly be his death, if I would not see
+him; and beg'd me to live with him as I had done,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">157</a></span>and he wou'd never speak to me of his Love. But
+still I refus'd, tho' <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'unwillingly'">unwillinglly</span>. I was Angry at
+my self for thinking of him, and for being pleas'd,
+when some told in Company where I was, that he
+had been so out of Humour for some time, that no
+Body durst speak to him of Business. I lov'd to
+think it was for me, and ask'd a hundred Questions
+about him. But now the Publick Affairs oblig'd
+him to go to <i>Flanders</i>, where he perform'd Actions
+Worthy of himself. His Valour, Generosity, and
+Liberality were talk'd of everywhere, which still more
+and more engag'd me. I cou'd not but have some
+Inclination for so fine a Man, when I consider'd
+that he lov'd me too: However, I believ'd I had
+only that Esteem for him which I thought due to
+his Merit, and that Gratitude which the Obligations
+I had to him requir'd. But I grew insensibly
+more Melancholy than Usual. One Evening that
+my Mother and I were taking a serious Walk by
+the Canal in St. <i>James</i>'s Park, a Gentleman of her
+Country, and Acquaintance, seeing us at a distance,
+came to bear us Company: The Air being pretty
+Cool, we wore our Masks, and after we had made
+two or three Turns, he saw a Friend of his, of the
+same Nation, coming towards us. <i>That</i>, says he, <i>is</i>
+Antonio, <i>Son to my Lord &mdash;&mdash; He is a very well Accomplish'd
+Gentleman, and has a good Estate, I wish he
+were Married to</i> Olinda. I know the Family, and
+have hear'd of him, <i>Replyed my Mother</i>, I shou'd not
+dislike the Match. By this time he was come up
+to us, and after having beg'd Pardon for intruding,
+and leave to Walk with us, he turn'd of my side.
+He had not seen my Face, for it was duskish, and
+I only made a Fashion of lifting my Mask upon our
+first Compliments; but yet he said abundance of
+fine things, of my Beauty and Charms. After
+half an Hours Conversation we were going home,
+and they would needs wait upon us, but one of
+his Servants met him, and told him he had been
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">158</a></span>looking for him a long time; some Friends of his
+that were going out of <i>England</i> the next day, staid
+for him in the Mall, and must speak with him immediately.
+So he left us to the <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'others'">tothers</span> Care, and
+went back. The first time <i>Antonio</i> met with his
+Friend, with whom he had seen us; he told him, he
+was so Charm'd with the Ladies Conversation,
+that he could not rest till he saw her again. He
+Answer'd, that he wou'd not like her if he had seen
+her, but he wou'd carry him to Visit one, whose
+Beauty wou'd soon make him forget her. <i>Antonio</i>
+said that Wit and good Humour had far greater
+Charms for him, than the finest Face in the World:
+But that you mayn't think me obstinate, I will see
+her upon condition, that if her Eyes have not that
+influence which you expect, you will make me acquainted
+with that Lady whose Wit has engag'd
+me more perhaps than you imagine. He promis'd
+he wou'd, and so left him, and came to our Lodging:
+He gave us an Account of this Conversation,
+and desir'd us to continue the Humour, and not let
+him know we had seen him before; for he fancy'd
+a great deal of Pleasure in seeing me Rival my self.
+We agreed to it, and when they came, I entertain'd
+him with the greatest simplicity imaginable: For
+you must know I had an Aversion for him, which
+I cou'd give no Reason for (that Passion is as unaccountable
+as Love) and therefore I was pleas'd he
+shou'd think me a Fool, that he might not desire to
+see me again. I was glad to perceive he was uneasie
+in my Company, and to make him the more
+so, I talk'd very much, and very little to the purpose.
+When he was gone, he said to his Friend,
+<i>That if</i> Olinda <i>had the other Ladies Soul, she wou'd be
+a dangerous Person; but that as she was, he cou'd no more
+Love her than a fair Picture: That her Folly had only
+made him the more eager to see the unknown, and therefore
+he claim'd his Promise</i>. He <i>Answer'd</i>, that he did
+not know what a second sight of <i>Olinda</i> might do;
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">159</a></span>but however not to be worse than his Word, he
+wou'd endeavour to contrive a Meeting, but he
+cou'd not promise he shou'd see her Face, for she
+was very shy of that, as she had some Reason. I
+was extreamly averse to seeing him again, but this
+Gentleman was so earnest with me, and my Mother
+said so much for it, for she was desirous to have
+us acquainted, that I was almost forc'd to go; but
+Resolv'd not to shew my Face. He carry'd <i>Antonio</i>
+to the Park, at an appointed hour, when he said, he
+heard the Lady say she wou'd be there; and we
+met 'em as if by chance. We had a Conversation
+that wou'd have been diverting enough, if my Hatred
+for him had not made me think, all he did
+or said disagreeable: He told me I had been continually
+in his thoughts since he saw me, and that
+I had made such an Impression in his Heart, as
+cou'd never be alter'd. I said he must have a
+strange Opinion of my Credulity if he thought I
+cou'd believe he was in Love with a Woman he
+never saw. <i>Ah! Madam</i>, says he <i>how much more
+Charming are you Veil'd as you are than a Beautiful
+Fool that can only please ones Eyes: Such a one as my
+Friend here made me Visit the other day; and then he
+gave me a long Description of</i> Olinda, <i>and Related all
+her Discourse; which indeed was very insipid</i>. We
+made some Satyrical Remarks upon the poor Lady,
+and then we parted, tho' <i>Antonio</i> wou'd fain have
+gone home with us; but we wou'd not permit him.
+He was very importunate with his Friend after
+this, to make him acquainted with the unknown;
+but he said, he durst not carry him to see her without
+her leave; but he wou'd try to gain it, if he continu'd
+to desire it, after seeing <i>Olinda</i> two or three times.
+He Reply'd, he wou'd endure so much Mortification,
+in hopes of so great a Blessing as he promis'd
+him, but it must be speedy, for a Lover was impatient;
+and he shou'd be better satisfied with seeing
+the Ugliest Face he could imagine; than with that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">160</a></span>doubt he was in. In short, he brought him to our
+Lodgings several times, and still I acted the Foolish
+part; but yet he confess'd to his Friend, that I
+had mov'd him a little; and he Refus'd to see me
+again for fear he said, that he shou'd Love a Woman
+that he cou'd not Esteem: But one moments
+interview with his other Charmer wou'd deprive
+<i>Olinda</i> of that little part she had gain'd of his Heart.
+A little after some young Ladies that I knew, were
+going to the Play, and begg'd me to go with them:
+I was so chagrin, I cou'd not think of any diversions;
+but that made them the more pressing, urging
+it wou'd cure my Melancholy. So I went with
+them, and the first sight I saw was <i>Antonio</i> and his
+Friend. The last seeing a Lady that was not handsome
+with me; it came into his thoughts to say,
+that was she that <i>Antonio</i> was in Love with. He
+gaz'd upon her with the greatest eagerness imaginable,
+for a long time; then turning to another that
+was with them; which of those two, <i>says he</i>, (pointing
+to her and me) do you like best? You amaze me
+with that Question, <i>Returned he</i>, for I think there is
+too great a Disparity between them, to leave any
+doubt that it must be <i>Olinda</i>: (for he <span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'knew'">new</span> my
+Name.) You wou'd alter your Opinion, says
+<i>Antonio</i>, if you knew them both as well as I; for
+<i>Olinda</i>'s Beauty is more than doubly Valu'd by the
+others Wit, and solid Judgment. But <i>Olinda</i> has
+both, <i>Replyed the Gentleman</i>; which I believe you
+can't but know if you have ever talk'd with, or
+heard of her: For every body gives her that Character.
+They Wrong her extreamly, says <i>Antonio</i>,
+for she is really Foolish to deserve Pity; I never
+Conversed with a Woman whose Company was so
+tiresome; she talks Eternally, and not one Word of
+Common Sense. 'Tis impossible your Friend here,
+who is a very good Judge, has often said such
+things of her to me, that I must think you mistake
+the Woman. I have been too often with her for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">161</a></span>that, says <i>Antonio</i>, you may rather believe my
+Friend Jear'd her. Then they question'd him about
+it; but he Laugh'd, and said, He never saw a
+pretty Woman, but he thought she had Wit enough;
+so that they did not know what to make of him;
+but <i>Antonio</i>, who would not have been sorry to find
+as much Wit in <i>Olinda</i>, as he imagin'd in one,
+whose outside did not please him so well; took
+some pleasure in fancying himself deceiv'd; tho'
+when he consider'd it seriously, he could not believe
+it. However he enquired diligently of all
+that cou'd inform him any thing of me, which did
+more confound him: For they agreed, that I was
+far from being a Fool, and he cou'd not imagine to
+what end I shou'd pretend it: But was Resolv'd
+to find it out. He came often to see us, and still
+found me the same Fool, till one day when we had
+a great deal of Company, I was extreamly put to
+it; for I did not care for making my self ridiculous
+to so many; and 'twas not good Manners to
+be silent; however, I chose rather to be Rude, than
+undeceive him: I often made as if I did not hear
+when I was spoke to; but I was obliged to Answer,
+when one said to me, what's the matter with you
+<i>Olinda</i>, that you are Dumb of a sudden? I am sure
+you ought not; for if it were pardonable in any
+Woman to talk always, 'twould be in you, that do
+it so well. I was so confused at this Compliment,
+that came so <i>male a propos</i>; that I believe I did not
+Answer it over wisely; but as my ill Fate would
+have it, a Lady in the Company took a Paper out
+of her Pocket, saying, <i>I am resolved to make</i> Olinda
+<i>speak whether she will or not; and I will leave you to
+judge, whether she does not do it well in this Song</i>. So
+she read one that I had Writ at her desire; for she
+sung very well. I would fain have denyed it, but
+I saw it was in vain, for Wit will out one way or
+other. <i>Antonio</i> seemed overjoyed at this Discovery,
+and I was as much grieved: For no Woman had
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">162</a></span>ever a greater desire to be thought Wise, than I to
+be thought otherwise. He came to see me every day
+from that time, and when his Friend told him, that
+he hoped he would not dispute <i>Olinda</i>'s Power any
+longer, since she made him so absolutely forget
+her, whom he had once preferred so much to her;
+he said, that it was not the same <i>Olinda</i> whom he
+loved, for she had chang'd her Soul. Nor had he
+forgot the other, for it was that Wit, that same
+turn of Thought, and agreeable Conversation which
+he admir'd in her, that he ador'd in <i>Olinda</i>. I
+do not know, whether he ever knew, that they
+were both one Person, but he did not desire to see
+the other. When he discovered his Love to me, I
+entertained it so coldly, that he could have little
+hopes, but that is the last thing that quite forsakes a
+Lover: And it did not hinder him from persisting.
+He watched his opportunity, when he saw any
+thing had pleased me, but still he was Repulsed
+with greater Scorn. I took delight when he was
+with me, to Repeat often those Words in <i>Sophonisba;
+The Fort's impregnable, break up your Siege, there
+is one for you too mighty entered in; the Haughtiest,
+Bravest, foremost Man on Earth</i>. He importuned me
+extreamly to know who this Happy Man was; and
+Vowed if I would tell him, he'd never mention
+his Passion to me again; but I told him, if there
+was such a Man, it was the same Reason he should
+trouble me no more, as if he knew who he was;
+since that could make no alteration in my heart:
+And perhaps it was a Secret; however, that I
+would hear no more of his Love. He Begg'd, and
+Sigh'd, and Whin'd, an Hour or two to make me
+Reverse my Doom; but in vain; and I was pleas'd
+that he believed me in Love, tho' I did not think
+it my self. He continued to Visit me without
+saying any thing of particular to me; and without
+suspecting the Object of my Love; 'till my Mother
+and some Company were talking of the great
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">163</a></span>Actions <i>Cloridon</i> had done; just as they Named
+him, he looked at me, (by chance it may be) but
+I being a little Guilty, thought it was designed,
+Blushed, looked down, and was confused, which
+made me blush the more; and that was enough to
+fix a Jealousie that had long possest him, and that
+Watched for the least shadow of Reason to place
+it upon any particular person. I was so ashamed
+of my self, that I was not able to stay in the Room,
+and when I was gone, <i>Antonio</i> kept up the Discourse
+of <i>Cloridon</i>; begun to praise his Person, and
+ask'd my Mother what she thought of him. She
+said, 'twas so long since she had seen him, that she
+had almost forgot him; but that her Daughter had
+seen him lately, (and so told upon what occasion)
+and that she Extolled him for the finest Man she
+ever saw. This confirmed his Jealousie; and the
+first Opportunity he had with me, he told me some
+News of <i>Cloridon</i>: And then asked me if I had
+ever seen him, and how I liked him. I knew nothing
+of what my Mother had said; and not being
+willing he should believe what I found he suspected;
+I answered, that I had seen him two or three
+times in Walks at a distance: That I thought he
+was well enough, but not so handsome as Fame
+had made him. There needed no more to remove
+all doubt that he was his Rival; but how to know
+the particular Terms we were in, was the difficulty;
+he knew his Character, and thought me Virtuous,
+and therefore could not fear any thing Criminal
+betwixt us; but he resolved to try if my
+Affections were strongly engaged; and to that end
+he shew'd me a Letter from <i>Flanders</i>, wherein it
+was told him, that <i>Cloridon</i> (to the great wonder of
+all there) had a young Lady disguised in Men's
+Cloaths with him all the Campagne, and that it
+was discovered by an Accident, which he gave a
+large Account of. I found my self seized with an
+unusual I know not what, and did all my endeavours
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">164</a></span>to conceal it, but I changed Colour two or
+three times, and he having his Eyes continually
+upon me 'twas impossible but he must observe my
+concern: However, he said nothing of it to me, and
+I forced my self to talk of things indifferent. As
+soon as I was alone, I examined my self upon the
+matter. Why should this trouble me (said I within
+my self) who would not entertain his Love,
+when it was offered me, and I have often Resolved
+never to see him, even when I thought him Constant?
+How comes it then, that I am so Grieved
+and Angry that he loves another? And that I wish
+with such impatience for his Return? In fine, I
+discovered, that what I had called Esteem and
+Gratitude was Love; and I was as much ashamed
+of the Discovery, as if it had been known to all the
+World. I fancyed every one that saw me, read it
+in my Eyes; And I hated my self, when Jealousie
+would give me leave to Reason, for my extravagant
+thoughts and wishes: Mean while <i>Antonio</i>
+would not be Idle, he thought this was the time
+for him; when my Anger was Raised against <i>Cloridon</i>;
+<span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: 'that' should be omitted">that</span> that and my Obedience to my Mother
+(if he could get her of his side, which he did not
+much doubt) would induce me to Marry him; and
+then he did not fear, but Reason and Duty would
+overcome my Love. Accordingly he had my
+Mother's Consent, and entreated her to intercede
+for him; but all this was so far from having that
+effect which he expected, that I hated him the
+more: I was so unjust as to look upon him as the
+Cause of my Affliction, and I was so Angry to see
+him take such Measures, as I foresaw must make
+me very uneasie, that I treated him ill, even to
+Rudeness. But I will leave him and <i>Olinda</i> equally
+unhappy, till the next Post; and then give you an
+Account of some Alteration in their Affairs, which
+if it gave her ease, I believe a little encreased his
+pains. In the mean time believe, that I remain</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="right">
+<i>Your Friend</i>, Olinda.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_five.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter V.</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">165</a></span></h4>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_five.png" width="10%" class="floatl" height="10%" alt="&#39;T" title="&#39;T" />
+<span class="hidden">'T</span>IS not possible for you to imagine, much
+less for me to express what I endur'd, by
+my own Jealousie, and <i>Antonio</i>'s Persecution:
+Either of 'em wou'd have been
+grievous enough, but together they were intolerable;
+and I cou'd expect no Remedy, for I knew
+not what I wou'd have. I did not continue one
+moment in the same Mind; I long'd for <i>Cloridon</i>'s
+Return, and yet I resolv'd not to see him, tho'
+when I thought that perhaps he would not desire
+it, I almost dy'd with the Fear; but that was
+soon over, for a Week after <i>Antonio</i> had shew'd me
+the Letter I mention'd in my last, he came to
+Town, and sent me a Letter the first Night, fill'd
+with the tenderest expressions of Love, and Vows,
+that all his Fortune and Conquests abroad could
+not give him the least Joy, whilst I remained inexorable;
+and a hundred Entreaties to see him
+once, and he shou'd die contented. This was some
+satisfaction to me; but 'twas but imperfect:
+Sometimes I believ'd all he said, and presently
+after call'd him false and Perjur'd: One while I
+resolv'd not to answer him, and the next Minute
+chang'd my Mind; but I was long before I cou'd
+fix upon what to say. At last I writ with a great
+deal of affected coldness, only I gave him some
+dark Hints of the Lady I had heard was with
+him, which in his Answer he said, he did not
+understand. He writ several times to me by private
+Direction, which I had given him when I
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">166</a></span>believ'd he was only my Friend; but a little after
+he sent to our Lodgings, to tell me, that he had
+a Place at his disposal, which if I had any Friend
+that wou'd accept of it, was at my Service. My
+Mother made me return him Thanks, and tell
+him, that I had a Relation who was very fit for
+the Employment, who shou'd wait upon him, but
+he was not now in Town. <i>Cloridon</i>, who desir'd
+no better occasion, sent me word, that if I wou'd
+let him see me, he wou'd tell me what was to be
+done in it; for it was not a thing to be neglected,
+because there were a great many pretended to it,
+who might get it by some other means, since it
+did not wholly depend on him. I did not know
+what pretence to make to hinder my going, for I
+durst not tell my Mother of our Meeting without
+her knowledge: And perhaps I was glad of the
+necessity of seeing him, since it took away the
+Fault, and serv'd for an excuse both to my self
+and him; tho' I was sorry to be forc'd to receive
+new Obligations from him. I never saw a Man
+in such an extasie of Joy, as he appear'd to be in
+at this Interview: He was Speechless and Motionless
+for a long time, and when he spoke, 'twas
+with so passionate and charming Words and Air,
+that I was not able to say those severe things I
+design'd. I check'd him for obliging me to see
+him, after I had refus'd him so often, that he
+might know 'twas contrary to my Inclinations;
+but (as he told me since) he saw something in my
+Eyes which made him think, I was not very Angry
+with him: And when I explain'd that part
+of my Letter which hinted of the Lady, I did it
+in such a manner, that he believ'd me Jealous.
+At first he seem'd amaz'd at what I told him, but
+afterwards he deny'd it so coldly, and took so little
+pains to perswade me 'twas false, that I was
+enrag'd; which still discover'd my Weakness the
+more. He found one pretence or other for delaying
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">167</a></span>the Business, and for seeing me two or three
+times, and took pleasure in heightning my Jealousie;
+till he thought, if he trifled with me any longer,
+he might lose me for ever: And then he begun
+to protest seriously, There was no such thing,
+that it must be the invention of some particular
+Enemy of his; for if I wou'd give my self the
+trouble to enquire, I should find it was no general
+Report, and 'twere impossible it shou'd not be
+known by every Body, if what I had heard was
+true. We easily believe what we wish; and when
+I consider'd from whom I had the Story, I much
+doubted the truth of it: And whilst I saw him,
+and heard him Swear, he had never had the least
+inclination for any other Woman since he saw me.
+I was firmly perswaded of his Fidelity; but my
+suspicions return'd a little, as soon as I left him.
+He told me, he cou'd willingly forgive the Invention,
+since it had occasion'd the discovery of my
+Sentiments, which were to his Advantage; but
+reply'd, That he need not much boast of what my
+Weakness had reveal'd; for tho' I cou'd not now
+deny that my Heart took too great a part in what
+concern'd him, yet since he knew it, nothing
+shou'd prevail with me to see him again; and so I
+left him: But I cou'd not forbear saying at parting,
+that he had made me very unhappy, and I
+wish'd I had never seen him, tho' I condemn'd my
+self a hundred times for it afterwards. I ask'd of
+all I knew that had been in <i>Flanders</i>, or had any
+Correspondence there, if they heard of <i>Cloridon</i>'s
+having a Lady Disguis'd with him; but they assur'd
+me, there was not so much as the least Report
+of it, which pretty well satisfied me as to that:
+For every Action of a Man of his Quality, and in
+his Post, is so narrowly observ'd, that a thing so
+extraordinary cou'd not have been a Secret; but
+yet I was very desirous to know upon what ground
+that Letter was writ to <i>Antonio</i>. However I wou'd
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">168</a></span>not examine him about it, because I saw he suspected
+my Love already, tho' he had never told
+me; but still continued my most assidious Humble
+Servant and Tormentor: And I think I was not
+much in his Debt, for I really treated the poor
+Man Barbarously. My Mother gave him all the
+opportunities she could, and one day that she had
+some business that would keep her out till Night;
+she left me at home, and gave Orders that no body
+should be admitted to see me but <i>Antonio</i>. I was
+so vexed at this Command, that I resolved to revenge
+my self upon him, and when I heard the
+Noise of one coming up Stairs, I prepared to give
+him the rudest Reception I could: I sate Reading
+with my back towards the Door, and did not rise
+when he came in, till I saw a Man kneeling by my
+side; and then without looking towards him, I got
+up and walked to the other end of the Room. <i>What,
+Madam</i>, says he, <i>is my Offence so great? Or do you hate
+me so much, that you will not hear me ask for Pardon?</i>
+I found something in the Voice soft, and moving,
+which struck me like one I was accustomed to be
+pleased with; and turning about, I was amazed,
+Good God, <i>cryed I</i>, is it possible? Are you <i>Cloridon</i>;
+or do I Dream? How could you come here?&mdash;&mdash;,
+<i>How could I forbear coming so long?</i> interuppted he, <i>or
+how can I live a moment from you? I must see you</i> Olinda,
+<i>whatever I hazard, and since you refused to let me
+a securer way, how could I neglect so favourable an opportunity</i>?
+Then I desired to know by what means
+he knew, that I was alone; and he told me, that since
+the last time he saw me, and that I had been so
+good as to own my self sensible of his Love, he had
+had a hundred Plots and Contrivances to see me;
+but found none so feasible as that, which he had put
+in Execution. He sent a Servant whom he confided
+much in, and Ordered him to try all means possible
+to know my Motions when I went out, and
+when I was at home alone; and he had found the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">169</a></span>way to gain the favour of a Servant that belonged
+to the Landlord of the House, (no doubt he feted
+her well,) and she had engaged to be secret, and
+to send him word when I was alone; but she did
+not know for whom she did this Service; only
+he had told her, that it was a Man of Quality
+that was in Love with me, and desired to see me
+privately, to know how I was affected towards
+him, before he declared himself publickly. He
+came to her that morning, and she told him, my
+Mother was gone out, and that she heard her say,
+she should not come Home 'till Night; so that if
+he would come with the Person that was to see
+me, she would be at the Door to conduct him
+to me: When they came, she told them, that a
+Gentleman that courted me had been there just
+now, but she denied that I was at home on purpose
+to oblige him. I was angry that he should
+take so little care of my Reputation; but he
+said, that it was not at all in danger, for no body
+knew of it but that Servant who would not tell it
+for her own sake; or if she did, she saw that 'twas
+all without my Knowledge. That if I would not
+give my Consent to see him abroad, he should do
+something more extravagant that might expose
+both me and him: But if I would, he'd promise
+never to speak of his Love to me. In sine, by
+Threatnings and Intreaties, and my own Inclination,
+I was prevailed with, after I had made him
+swear not to mention his pretended Passion. Forgive
+my Frailty, dear <i>Cleander</i>, it was not possible
+for me to refuse the Man I loved any thing that
+could admit of excuse, and I found or made Arguments
+enough to sooth my Inclination, and persuade
+me it was no Fault only to see him. I
+hastned him away for fear he should be seen with
+me, but he lingred on for two or three hours
+and just as he was going I heard <i>Antonio</i>'s Voice
+asking for me, so that he could not go out without
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">170</a></span>meeting him. I was extreamly vexed, but this
+was no time to fret or chide. I desired him to
+step into a Closet, which I had in the Room; where
+I kept my Books, and told him I would contrive
+a way to be rid of the other quickly. When I had
+Locked him in, I took my Hoods and seemed to
+be putting them on, in order to go abroad, so
+that <i>Antonio</i> could not in good Manners stay; but
+he desired, since he was so unhappy as to be deprived
+of that satisfaction he expected in my
+Company, that I would lend him some Book to
+divert his Melancholy. I told him, that he would
+have found so little in my Company, that he needed
+not much mourn for the loss of it: But as my
+ill Fate would have it, he was so pressing to borrow
+a Book, that I knew not how to refuse it;
+I turned the Discourse and sat down, and said, I
+had altered my Resolution, and would stay at
+home. <i>Antonio</i> wondred at this mighty Favour,
+he was so unused to receive any from me, that he
+was Transported at it: He thanked me for it a
+hundred times, and I believe presaged no little
+good Fortune for him from such a Change, tho'
+my way of entertaining him, gave him no great
+encouragement. If I should give you a particular
+Account of our Conversation, it would be as impertinent
+to you, as it was troublesome to me; I
+will only tell you, I never passed an Hour with
+half so much pain as that, having for addition to
+the usual uneasiness his Company made me endure,
+that of the unseasonableness of the time. Whilst I
+was fretting at this unhappy Accident, and fearing
+he would not go away till my Mother came home,
+our Landlord's Maid came to tell me, there was one
+below would speak with me: I went down and
+saw it was that Servant of <i>Cloridon</i>'s, which he had
+spoke of to me; he told me, that the King had
+sent twice for his Lord, and desired me to tell him,
+that he must of necessity go presently, for the business
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">171</a></span>was of importance. This was a new Vexation;
+and I staid some time to deliberate what I
+should do, and at last, resolved to say I was sent
+for by a Lady that was Sick, that so <i>Antonio</i> might
+be obliged to leave me. But how was I surprized,
+when I returned and found <i>Cloridon</i> in the Room!
+I needed not dissemble an astonishment, for I was
+as much amazed to see him there, as if I had not
+known he was in the House. He advanced towards
+me, with a Ceremonious Bow, saying, <i>You
+have Reason, Madam, to wonder, and to be Angry at me?
+but when you know, that it is the general Frailty of
+Mankind that brought me hither, your goodness sure will
+pardon me: I mean Love, Madam, Love which makes
+the Wisest Men guilty of the greatest Irregularities</i>. I
+blushed at what he said, not apprehending his
+design, and told him his being there, and his Discourse
+were both so mysterious to me, that I did
+not know what to answer him. He said, he
+thought himself obliged to tell the Truth, since
+my Reputation would be in danger by concealing
+it: But first he must beg me to pardon the Servant
+of the House, and not to let her Master know of
+it; for he having taken a fancy to her, had wheedled
+her into a Consent, to let him come and see her,
+tho' the Wench was very honest: That our Family
+being all abroad, she had brought him into that
+Room, and hearing me returned, she had put him
+into the Closet, believing I would go out again:
+But finding I staid long, he had entertained himself
+with my Books, and in removing some had
+thrown down others, the noise of which had made
+<i>Antonio</i> open the Door; and since it was his Fortune
+to be discovered in a Foolish thing, he hop'd
+the Gentleman and I, would let it go no further.
+We gave him our Word for it; and when he was
+gone, we both sat silent for a long time, each expecting
+what t'other would say: At last he begun.
+<i>Cloridon</i> was hard put to it, to be forced to discover
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">172</a></span>such a secret; he that has acquired the Reputation
+of Chast, found out to be so little Nice, as to take
+such pains, for one of so mean Quality, and one
+that has not many things to recommend her. You
+have the Luck, <i>said I</i>, to find out <i>Cloridon</i>'s Intreagues,
+when no body else knows any thing of
+'em: And he may thank his Good Stars his secret
+falls into such hands; if you are as careful of this,
+as you have been of that in <i>Flanders</i>, which no
+body but you has ever heard of. <i>I shall certainly
+conceal it Madam</i>, replyed he, <i>for your Fame sake; for
+the malicious World would be apt to fancy his thoughts
+were something higher than a Dirty Wench, when he
+was put into your Closet: But I am to believe what you
+please, and if you tell me you never saw him before, but
+in Walks at a distance, I won't doubt of it</i>. I am not
+much concerned what you, or any thinks of me,
+<i>says I</i>, my satisfaction does not depend upon Opinion:
+And I shall be always happy, as long as I
+am innocent; whether you believe me so or not.
+However I owe so much to Truth, to assure you,
+that whatever designs <i>Cloridon</i> had, I knew no more
+of his coming here than you did, and that I am
+very Angry at him for it. <i>If you had not told me so
+Madam, I should, it may be, have thought you would rather
+have lent me a Book, than endured my Company so long
+(which you always used to avoid) but that you feared I
+should see him, if you opened the Closet; but I am very
+glad, you will have me interpret your staying with me
+more to my advantage.</i> I was vexed he should think
+it was to oblige him; and since I found he was
+Master against my Will, of the greatest part of my
+Secret, I thought it best to make him a Confident
+of it, which would prevent his Addresses to me,
+and engage him to the greater Fidelity. I told
+him then, all that was betwixt us; and he gave
+me some good Counsels, not to cherish a Love, or
+entertain a Correspondence that might in the end
+prove dangerous, considering his Circumstances;
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">173</a></span>but I was too far gone to take them, and besides,
+coming from a Rival, I did not make much Reflexion
+upon them. Advices by an interested
+Person, tho' never so reasonable, are not minded,
+or at least are much suspected, especially when
+they contradict the inclination of the Advised. I
+did not tell him, I had consented to see <i>Cloridon</i>,
+because I resolved not to tell him any thing, but
+what I could not conceal. I did not see <i>Antonio</i>
+in a Month after, but he sent often to ask how
+we did, and said, <i>he was very ill himself</i>. He Writ
+once to me, to tell me he was endeavouring to
+overcome a Passion, which he found was displeasing
+to me, and which therefore must make him
+very unhappy; and to beg me, if he could effect it,
+to accept him as a Friend, and not continue that
+hatred for him then, which I had for my Lover.
+Mean while, the too Charming <i>Cloridon</i> and I met
+together often: At first we entertained one another
+with all the News, and little Intreagues of the
+Town; he put so entire a Confidence in me, was
+so pleased to see me, and so obliging to me, and
+my Relations upon all Occasions, that I then
+thought my self happy, to a degree that left no
+Room for Wish; for he gave me the greatest evidences
+of his Love, without speaking of it to me,
+which was all I could desire from a Man, whose
+Love I preferred to every thing but Virtue; and
+who I could not hear talk of it without a Crime:
+But how easily are we drawn in by such steps as
+these, to things we had made the strongest Resolutions
+against. In some time he made Complaints
+to me, and spoke of his Passion in a third Person, so
+that I might understand him, but I could not be
+angry with him; and I knew not how insensibly,
+and by degrees I accustomed my self to hear of his
+Love; at first defending my self against it, and
+chiding him for breaking his Word; but his Excuses
+seemed to me stronger Reason than my Accusations;
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">174</a></span>and at last I suffered it with Pleasure,
+and without Reluctancy. Thus my unwary Heart
+entangled it self more and more, pleasing it self
+with its own Folly, without looking backward or
+forward; happy for the present on all sides, for
+now I was no longer troubled with <i>Antonio</i>. He
+after a Months absence came to see me, and told
+me, he desired nothing of me now but my Friendship,
+and to convince me, he was not my Lover,
+he would tell me a secret in favour of <i>Cloridon</i>, if
+I would promise to forgive him; I told him I
+would, and then he gave me that Account which
+I have given you, of his first suspecting my Love,
+and how to try it, he had feigned that Letter
+which he shewed me; that he had resolved to undeceive
+me, as soon as he had discovered what
+Sentiments I had for him; but when he saw how
+it affected me, Jealousie would not give him leave,
+and love prompted him to make use of it to his
+own Advantage. He added, that tho' Love had made
+him guilty of Treachery so much contrary to his Nature,
+yet I should always find him the most sincere,
+and the most faithful of his Friends. Tho' I believed
+before that Story to be an invention; you cannot imagine
+how much I was pleased, to be sure of it now.
+I easily pardon'd him, since I had promised it, and
+since I thought he deserved it, having told it voluntary.
+From that time I received him more
+favourably than I used to do, and took some pleasure
+in his Conversation, because he was the only
+Man that knew of my Love, and that I could talk
+with freely of <i>Cloridon</i>. But now my Mother perceived
+I had some more complaisance than before
+for <i>Antonio</i>; she wondred he talked nothing of
+Marriage to her, and told me her thoughts, which
+put me upon new contrivances, how I might shun
+her Anger, and yet <i>Antonio</i> come off with Honour.
+I found him raise scruples against all the Methods
+I would invent, and often he asked me, if I design'd
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">175</a></span>never to Marry, and what Reasons I could always
+give for not doing it; which made me apprehend
+he was not altred so much as he seemed; and fear I
+should have some trouble in this Affair, he had
+told me, that when he was very young, his Father
+had contracted him to a kinswoman of his,
+that lived in the House with them, who had a
+great Fortune, and he heard was handsome, and
+witty; but he went to his Travels before it could
+be known, whether she was either so; that he had
+never had any Love for her: I had a great mind
+to let my Mother know this, for I knew she was
+scrupulous in such things, and would not consent
+to Marry me to a Man, that had any engagement
+to another; but I was loath to do it, without his
+leave, since he was so sincere as to tell it me, and
+because I was afraid to exasperate him. I took a
+great deal of Pains to flatter him into a complyance;
+I told him my Mother could not have the
+worse Opinion of him for it, since it was a thing
+done when he was so young, and that he could
+have no other Reason to hinder him, now that he
+had no design upon me, which if he had, I should
+find other ways to disappoint them, tho' perhaps
+they might make me more uneasie. At last, with
+much difficulty he agreed to it, and when I told it
+to my Mother, I found her affected as I wish'd;
+which when <i>Antonio</i> knew, he fetched a great Sigh,
+and only said, <i>Have I lost all my hope then, Madam?</i>
+and so went away extreamly discomposed. A
+while after he came to take leave of us, and said
+his Father had sent for him in haste, to go to his
+own Country; but he told me in private, that he
+could stay no longer in a place, where he grew
+every day more and more unhappy; and that now
+he had resolved to leave it: He could not forbear
+telling me, that he had only concealed his Love all
+this while, to get into my Favour, and in hopes
+of finding something which might give him hopes.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">176</a></span>But since I had now deprived him of all, he would
+not encrease his Misery, by seeing every day the
+Objects of his Love, and of his Hate, his cruel
+Mistress, and his happy Rival. I am told his Father
+presses him extreamly to Marry, being his only
+Son, but he waves it. I should think I had given
+you a Description of a Miracle of Constancy in
+<span class="err" title="Transcriber's Note: should be 'spite'">spight</span> of Rigours and Absence; but that in this
+Age, kindness is a more effectual way to cure
+Love; an unlucky thing, since no body will attempt
+it, that has that design; but I, (or Fortune
+for me,) found you see, a less dangerous way to
+free my self, with more ease than I could hope,
+and I think it is time to deliver you now, and
+give you a little respite till next Post, when you
+may expect the continuance of the History of</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="right">
+<i>OLINDA</i>.</span></p>
+
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_mid_letters.png" width="100%" height="12%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
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+
+</div>
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter VI.</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">177</a></span></h4>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_six.png" width="10%" height="10%" class="floatl" alt="I" title="I" />
+<span class="hidden">I</span>F I did not know to the contrary by my
+own Experience; you wou'd make me believe,
+that Friendship and Love can't be
+contain'd in one Breast. Is it possible you
+can be so much taken up with <i>Ambrisia</i>, that you
+have not time enough to tell me of it; and that in
+this Solitude, I should hear of <i>Cleander's</i> Affairs
+from two or three, before I knew any thing of
+'em from himself: They tell me you are every
+day with your New Mistress, and that you are
+well receiv'd there. I should be pleas'd with it,
+if I did not fear, instead of finding two Friends,
+to lose that one, whose Friendship I prefer to all
+other things: But you'll make me almost Jealous
+of her if you don't write quickly, for this is my
+fourth since I've heard from you. Tell me <i>Cleander</i>,
+you that search into the Nature of things,
+that know the Passions of Men; how they are
+form'd in the Soul, and by what means, and what
+Degrees they rise; tell me how I may give that
+Awe, that fear, or that Respect which I hear often
+talk'd of, that makes Men not dare to tell a
+Woman that they love her. Is it the Grave, the
+Sour, the Proud, or modest Looks? Or is there
+no such thing, but in Songs and Romances? For
+my part, I could never meet with it; and tho'
+perhaps there is some Pleasure in being belov'd, I
+cannot endure to be told of it, unless by the Language
+of the Eyes, or so; for that we need not
+understand: But there's nothing so dull, or so
+troublesome to me, as a declar'd Lover: This Reflection
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">178</a></span>was occasion'd by an Adventure happen'd
+to me two days ago; a Stripling of Eighteen,
+whose Father and Mother had been Servants in
+the Family where I am, said to one in the House
+(who told me) that he was in Love with me, and
+after had the Insolence to tell me himself, that he
+was in Love; <i>But you little think with whom, Madam</i>,
+added he; and just as he was going to finish
+his Declaration, by good Fortune he was call'd
+away: Can any thing be more provoking? Teach
+me where to place my Anger, on the Men, or
+on my self. <i>Antonio</i> was bashful to a Fault in
+other things, and yet he did not fear to say all he
+thought, and it may be more to me. <i>Cloridon</i>,
+who treated me with the highest Respect imaginable,
+discover'd his Love to me, as soon as he
+knew it himself; and many have pretended it,
+that never felt any, at least for me. The last indeed
+had encouragement enough, not to repent
+of what he had done, and Reason not to despair
+of any thing he could ask; so that after being
+two Years contented with my Love, he resolv'd
+to put it to the Trial, and begun to pretend to
+Favours, with all the Arguments he could invent,
+or find, to perswade me of the innocence and lawfulness
+of what he ask'd: You may find what influence
+they had upon me by the following Lines,
+which he sent me in a Letter next day.</p>
+
+<p class="in15">I.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i><span class="dropcap">N</span>OT one kind Word, not one relenting Look?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>The harsh, the cruel Doom to mitigate?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Your Native Sweetness, ev'n your Eyes forsook;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>They shin'd, but in the fiercest form of Hate.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">179</a></span>II.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Is't Honour does these Rigid Laws impose;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>That will no sign of gentleness allow;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That tells you 'tis a Crime to pity Foes,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And bids you all the utmost Rigour show?</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15">III.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>All Praise the Judge, unwilling to Condemn,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Where Clemency with Justice long Debates:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>But he who Rig'rously insults, we blame,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And think the Man more than his Sin, he hates.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15">IV.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Dare I my Judge accuse of Cruelty?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>When at her Feet she saw her Slave implore,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>With hasty Joy she gave the sad Decree:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>I hate you, and will never see you more.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15">V.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Ay! 'tis too plain, the false</i> Olinda'<i>s pleas'd</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>To see the Captive's Death her Eyes had made:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>As what she wish'd, she the Occasion seiz'd;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>No Sigh a kind Reluctancy betray'd.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15">VI.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>If you intend to try your Power or Skill,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>A Nobler way pursue the great Design:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The meanest Wretch on Earth knows how to kill;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>But to preserve from Death's an Act Divine.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">180</a></span>VII.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Like Heav'n, you with a Breath can Recreate</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Your Creature, that without you does not Live:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Say that you Love, and you r'voke my Fate;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And I'm Immortal if you can forgive.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in15">VIII.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>My fiercest Wishes you shall then restrain,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And Love that tramples o'er my Heart subdue:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>What doubt can of your mighty Pow'r remain,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>When ever that submits and yields to you?</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in">I believe I spoke from my Heart, when I told him
+I hated him; I'm sure I thought so then, when I
+saw him whom I believ'd to have an Esteem
+and Respect for me, act as if he had neither. I
+said the most violent things I could imagine against
+him, and left him without the least Reluctancy:
+But my Rage, or Hate, was soon converted
+to a Quiet Stupid Grief, that overwhelm'd
+my Soul, and left me not the Power of easing it
+the common way, in Tears or Complaints. I saw
+that I must resolve never to see him again, whatever
+it made me endure: And in fine, I saw all
+that could make me unhappy, without any hopes
+of a Remedy; for tho' he writ to me often to beg
+my Pardon, and Vow'd a thousand times he wou'd
+not be guilty of the same fault again, tho' he
+were sure to be successful; yet I prevail'd with
+my self absolutely to refuse to see him, with more
+Resolution than I thought my self capable of;
+for I consider'd it was dangerous to trust him,
+notwithstanding his Protestations, since he had
+broke his Word before: And I don't know if I
+had not some Reason to distrust my self, after having
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">181</a></span>gone so far, as not only to suffer him to talk to
+me of his Love, but to own mine to him. When
+he saw this would not do, he had recourse to his
+old way of Writing upon Business; but the Letter
+came first to my Hands, and so I stifled it, and
+said nothing of it to my Mother. A Week after
+a Porter came to me, and said he was sent by the
+Countess of &mdash;&mdash; who desir'd me to go immediately
+to her Lodgings, for she had something of
+great Consequence to tell me, and that he left her
+at a place where she had Din'd, but she was just
+going home. Away I went, and when they told
+me she was not at home, I thought she would not
+fail of being there presently, and went up Stairs
+to Stay for her: When I came into the Room, I
+saw <i>Cloridon</i> there, and wou'd have retir'd; but he
+civilly hinder'd me, and told me, he was waiting
+for his Cousin (for this Lady was nearly related to
+him) whom he expected to come in very soon;
+but 'twas a great happiness I came before, and
+more than he cou'd have hop'd for from Fortune;
+for at first he pretended it was Chance brought us
+together there; but he knew I must find it out,
+and so to prevent my discovering it to the Lady,
+he told me, that coming to Visit her, and not finding
+her at Home; it came into his thoughts to
+send for me in her Name; for he knew that she
+us'd to visit me, and often desir'd me to go abroad
+with her, or to bear her Company at home; so
+that he hop'd he might succeed without being suspected.
+I was in great confusion, and very angry
+at the Trick he had put upon me; and yet
+I could not but be a little pleas'd at it too. I
+lov'd to see him, and was glad of an opportunity
+to give him his Pardon, which I did, but made a
+Vow never to consent to meet him in private, tho'
+he begg'd it upon his Knees above an Hour, and
+said he would not rise till I had granted it: I suppose
+he was not so good as his Word; but I left
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">182</a></span>him in that posture, and before I went away, and
+charg'd him not to write to me any more. This
+Interview serv'd but to increase my melancholy;
+I indulg'd it a long time, and thought upon nothing
+but what sooth'd and added to it: But at
+length considering the occasion of my misfortune,
+it represented itself to me, not only as my Folly,
+but my Crime; and then I concluded it must be a
+Crime to grieve for the loss of that, which 'twas
+a Crime to Love; and so fix'd a resolution of overcoming
+my Passion, which I endeavour'd to do
+by Reason, and by Diversions. Had I had you
+my Friend to assist me with your Counsels, I had
+found it much less difficult; but now I had the
+strongest part of my self to Combat without any
+Aid: I often gave Ground, and sometimes suffer'd
+my self to be vanquish'd by the bewitching Reflections
+of what unequall'd Satisfactions I had
+found in his Company, and how many happy hours
+I enjoy'd with him; but some good Thought
+would rouse my Soul to strive again, and then the
+Victory was mine. I find by Experience 'tis but
+bravely, heartily, and thoroughly Resolving upon
+a thing, and 'tis half done: There's no Passion,
+no Temptation so strong, but Resolution can overcome:
+All is to be able to Resolve; there's the
+Point, for one must lose a little of the first Ardour
+before one can do that; and many of our Sex have
+ruin'd themselves, for want of time to think.
+'Tis not a constant settled purpose of Virtue will
+do; there must be particular Resolutions for a
+particular Attack; 'Tis easie enough to say, no
+Man shall prevail with me to do an ill thing;
+the difficulty is, such a Man shall not; he
+that I love, he that 'tis Death for me to deny
+any thing to: There I got the better of my self,
+and as last attain'd to a calm serenity of Mind,
+which I have enjoy'd ever since, as much as can
+be expected in such a World as this; and which
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">183</a></span>nothing can disturb, if you continue to have that
+Friendship for me which you have profess'd, and
+which your Silence makes me almost doubt of;
+but there's hardly any thing I could not more easily
+believe, than that <i>Cleander</i> is False or Inconstant.
+Write quickly, for I am impatient to know
+the Cause of this unkindness to</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="r8">
+<i>Your constant Friend</i>,</span><br />
+<span class="right">
+OLINDA.</span>
+</p>
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_seven.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter VII.</em></h4>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_seven.png" width="10%" class="floatl" height="10%" alt="A" title="A" />
+<span class="hidden">A</span><i>Mbrisia's</i> Cruel, Coy, Disdainful, and you
+believe she hates you; and yet <i>Ambrisia</i>
+took occasion at Play to impose upon
+you as a Penance, not to write for a
+Month to one she believ'd you lov'd. If this had
+been another's Case, you wou'd have discover'd that
+<i>Ambrisia's</i> Jealous. Trust me, she loves you, and
+only puts on the usual Disguises of Women as sincere
+as she is; and give me leave to justifie her,
+and the rest of our Sex in that Case: You have
+learn'd so well to feign Love, when you have none,
+that 'tis very hard to discern Art from Nature;
+and 'tis but reasonable we should be allow'd the
+less Guilty part of concealing ours, till we can
+know whether you are sincere: Besides, we know
+those things are most valu'd, that are obtain'd
+with most difficulty; and your natural Inconstancy
+gives us Reason to use all means to make you
+prize us as much as we can. Your selves too, encourage
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">184</a></span>us in it, for you despise a Woman that's
+easily gain'd, tho' you rail at the Dissembler; and
+we can't begin to love just when you would have
+us; so that both for our own sake and yours, 'tis
+sometimes necessary to deceive you: And I believe
+I may add, that there is a Natural Modesty
+in some Women, that makes 'em asham'd to own
+their Love. Mr. <i>Dryden</i> in his <i>State of Innocence</i>,
+gives our Mother <i>Eve</i> a little of that; tho' some
+are of Opinion, it had its Birth from your faithlessness;
+and that if you had not been false, we
+had never been shie. If it be so, don't you think
+we have Reason to be cautious in a thing of such
+Weight; But I need not take such pains to defend
+this Cause, for mine was a Fault on the other hand,
+a too easie discovery of my Love: And to speak
+the Truth, whatever we are accus'd of, I believe
+that's the more general one. 'Tis only those that
+are as Wise as your Mistress, that can have so
+much Command over themselves, as to be guilty
+of the 'tother; tho' if she knew you as well as I
+do, she wou'd find that she has no need to make
+use of any Arts to try you, or to preserve you:
+However don't despair, the Mask will soon fall off.
+You have Reason to wonder at my breaking off
+with <i>Orontes</i>, since by what I have told you, <i>Cloridon</i>
+cou'd be no occasion of it: But suspend your
+amazement a little, tho' my Misfortunes ended at
+Seventeen, my Adventures did not, and several
+things have happenn'd to me in the Year I have
+pass'd since, which you are yet a Stranger to.
+You neither know how my Acquaintance begun
+with <i>Orontes</i>, nor why it ended. In the beginning
+of last Summer, when I was endeavouring to divert
+my Love and Grief, I went with a Lady to
+see a Play: She was not in humour to Dress, and
+would needs have me go <i>Incognito</i>; and as we
+were coming out of the Play-House, we were
+seiz'd upon by two Sparks, who swore they would
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">185</a></span>not part with us; but that either we should Sup
+with them, or they wou'd go with us. We did
+not know how to be rid of these Impertinents, but
+we saw, if we took Coach, we could not hinder
+them from going into it; so we resolv'd to walk
+to our Mantua-maker, who liv'd hard by; and
+when we went in they left us, as we thought:
+but a quarter of an hour after, they came up Stairs,
+and tho' we were very angry at the Rudeness, yet
+they staid a pretty while; and he that had at first
+apply'd himself to the other Lady, was very pressing
+to be acquainted with her; but my Spark sat
+down just opposite to me without saying a Word,
+only sometimes desir'd his Friend to go away;
+which after he had plagu'd us half an Hour, they
+did: The next Week I went to <i>Tunbridge</i> with my
+Mother; and the first sight I saw at the Wells, was
+this Gentleman: He came towards us very respectfully,
+and said he was very glad of this opportunity
+of begging my Pardon, for the Insolence
+he had been guilty of; he hop'd the Lady who
+was with us, whom he had the Honour to know,
+would intercede for him. She that was in the
+Country with us, and who you know is an intimate
+Friend of ours, happen'd to be very well acquainted
+with him; and when we came home, she
+told me that his Name was <i>Orontes</i>; that he was
+a Gentleman who had but a small Fortune; but
+to repair it, he was Marry'd to a rich Widow above
+Threescore and ten; that tho' she was very
+ill Natur'd, he was the best Husband in the
+World to her, but he would take his pleasure abroad
+sometimes, and she was extreamly Jealous.
+He came to visit this Lady, and entreated her to
+carry him to see me; for he said he was sensible
+of the Affront he had given me the first time he
+saw me, and that he was very desirous of some
+Occasion to serve me; and he thought himself
+obliged to tell me so, and to seek all Opportunities
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">186</a></span>of doing it. She consented to it; and he
+came often to see us, and was very obliging to
+us. I will let you know my thoughts of him, because
+you can tell me if they are just; for he said
+he was not the same Man with me as with any
+Body else: He seem'd to me to have Wit enough,
+but 'twas rough and unpolish'd; nothing of that
+Politeness which renders a Man agreeable in Conversation.
+After the common Theams of the Weather,
+and News were discuss'd, playing at Cards,
+or taking the Air, were certainly propos'd: But I
+have heard, that in other places he was very entertaining,
+and had a hundred pleasant Stories to
+divert the Company. What can be the reason of
+this? I am sure he stood in no awe of me, as his
+future Actions shew'd; and he always told me his
+Thoughts freely, but plain and blunt, without
+giving 'em the turn of Gallantry, which is necessary
+to take; and yet he could not want Breeding,
+for he always convers'd with People of the
+First Quality. The Manner is often more look'd
+upon than the Thing; and tho' I'm as little pleased
+with Forms as any Woman, yet in some things
+'tis the essential part; there are few Men, whose
+Esteem or Respect I covet; but I would have all
+Men keep that distance with me, as if I gave 'em
+Awe; but I could never obtain it of 'em; tho'
+none ever gave me so much occasion to lament it
+as <i>Orontes</i>. Once, when he was at our Lodging,
+my Mother was talking of a Journey she design'd
+the next day about Ten Miles off, where she was
+to stay all Night: He asked me if I went with
+her: I said <i>No</i>; and desired my Mother to return
+as soon as she could; because I should be alone
+till then. It seems (as he told me since) he had
+made an Appointment with a particular Friend of
+his about Business of Importance; but having
+been long desired to see me alone, he would not
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">187</a></span>neglect this Occasion, and sent him an Epistolary
+Excuse in these Words:</p>
+
+<p class="in"><i>My Wife thinks I am with you, but</i> Olinda <i>told
+me she shall be alone to day, and I don't know when I
+shall meet with so favourable an Opportunity; so that
+you must excuse me; but I'll certainly see you to
+morrow</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="in">His Wife, being always suspicious of Letters
+she did not read, went to the Post-House after
+this: They made no scruple to give it her; because
+they knew 'twas one of their Servants had
+brought it; and when she had read it, she went
+home in all haste, and had her Husband dog'd to
+my Lodgings. When he came there he told me,
+that the first time he saw me, he lik'd my Shape
+and Mien, and was extreamly taken with my Face,
+that he durst not so much as ask me Pardon
+whilst he saw me so angry; and that since he was
+acquainted with me, my Humour had charm'd
+him so, that he could be content to leave all the
+World for me: And then, Laughing, ask'd me,
+If I could live with him, and he would keep me
+a Coach, and let me want nothing I could desire.
+I rally'd with him till he begun to talk more seriously,
+and then I check'd him for his Insolence;
+but it had no effect upon him; And when he saw
+that neither Promises nor Intreaties could move
+me, and that Opportunity favour'd him, he resolved
+to try what Violence would do; he had
+sent our Servant a Mile off for to fetch some Fruit,
+which, he said, was the best about the Country;
+and we were in a back Room near no Body in the
+House, so that I was in great Fear; however I
+made all the noise and Resistance I could, and was
+happily delivered by his old Lady's coming in: She
+might easily perceive we were both in Confusion,
+tho' she hardly guess'd the true Cause; and I was so
+good natur'd as not to tell it her. When she rail'd,
+we bore it with a great deal of Patience, and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">188</a></span>indeed I wonder'd at his Moderation: I really
+thought he would have let her beat me to revenge
+his Cause; but he was not so much a Brute,
+he hinder'd her, and very civilly led her away.
+The next day I saw him at the Wells, and whilst
+my Company was Raffling, he took the opportunity
+to talk with me, though I avoided him with
+all the Diligence I could. <i>Don't frown upon me,
+Olinda</i>, says he, <i>you ought to forgive me; Repentance
+is all that Heaven requires, and I never in my Life did
+an Action that troubled me so much; but if you have
+not good Nature enough to pardon me upon that, I must
+say something to excuse my self: If I believ'd you Virtuous
+before, it must be by an implicit Faith; but the
+way to be sure was to try it; and now I shall always
+admire that Virtue I could not subdue: Why then should
+you be angry with me any longer than my Fault remains?</i>
+Though I had a little Prejudice against him, I
+thought he spoke with more Eloquence, and a
+better Grace, than ever I heard him before; it
+may be his Concern inspir'd him; but 'twas to
+little purpose, for I was inexorable. I told him,
+<i>I did not think him worth my Anger, and should easily
+forgive him, upon Condition he would never see me any
+more: No</i>, Madam, said he, <i>I'd rather see you angry,
+than not see you at all</i>: But in spight of me, he visited
+us often; but I always entertain'd him with
+a coldness that did not much please him, though
+no Body else perceiv'd it. We came to Town in
+the beginning of <i>September</i>, and he was once at our
+House, and found me alone: He began to talk of a
+violent Passion he had for me; but I stop'd him,
+and said, <i>That was not a Discourse fit for me to hear
+from him</i>. I commanded him to leave me; and
+told him if he ever came there again, I wou'd be
+deny'd to him. He obey'd me, and I did not see
+him again till <i>November</i>. He came in Mourning,
+and told us he had had the misfortune to bury his
+Wife. He Writ to my Mother to desire her leave
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">189</a></span>to make his Addresses to me; which she gave him,
+and then he appear'd a declar'd Lover. I was so
+us'd to receive him with Anger and Disdain, that
+though I had not the same Reason now, I did
+not change my Behaviour to him; and for four
+Months my Mother let me take my own way,
+without speaking one word of <i>Orontes</i> to me: Either
+she design'd to observe what I wou'd do of
+my self, or she did not think it fit to talk of my
+Marrying him so soon after his Wife's Death;
+but when she saw I slighted him so long, she said
+to me one day, What do you mean Child, to receive
+with equal indifference all the Proposals
+that are made to you? Do you resolve to lead a
+single Life? I should approve of the choice in
+one of a better Fortune; but you must conform
+your self to yours, and consider that I am not
+able to maintain you. If you don't hate <i>Orontes</i>, I
+will have you Marry him, he has given so great
+proof of his being a good Husband, that you can't
+fear he will be otherwise to you; he is Handsome
+enough, and very Rich; I believe he loves you,
+and in fine, I think you may be as happy with
+him as with any Man; therefore, don't be obstinately
+bent against your own good. He came in
+at the same time, and seconded this command of
+my Mothers with Intreaties and Complaints. I
+had no Aversion for him, and since my Circumstances
+wou'd oblige me to Marry, and that I
+knew I could never love any Man; I thought it
+might as well be he as any other; so in sometime
+after I yielded, and the Wedding-day was appointed
+to be the Sixteenth of <i>May</i> last. How do
+you think 'tis possible to avoid it now; but many
+things happen betwixt the Cup and the Lip. You
+are to know that <i>Orontes</i>'s Estate lay near a fine
+Seat of <i>Cloridon</i>'s, which he often retir'd to; so
+that they were acquainted, and much together;
+and that <i>Orontes</i> went to his Country House to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">190</a></span>make some Preparations a Week before the designed
+Marriage. <i>Cloridon</i> told him he was extreamly
+pleas'd to see him there; for they had made a
+match for Hunting five or six days after with
+some Friends of his, that were wishing for him.
+I must beg your Pardon my Lord, <i>says he</i>, that I
+cannot stay so long; for I have business that will
+call me to <i>London</i> sooner. If it be not of great
+importance, <i>return'd he</i>, pray let me prevail with
+you to stay. 'Tis not to be deferr'd my Lord, I
+am to be Marry'd. Marry'd, cry'd my Lord, prithee
+what Madness possesses thee, so lately freed,
+to bind thy self again without any necessity for it?
+What Bait next, not another old Rich crabbed
+Widow, I hope? I have made a better Choice
+now, <i>answer'd Orontes</i>: She has Youth and Goodness
+I'm sure; and I have Money enough for us
+both. You are in the Right, <i>Reply'd Cloridon</i>; but
+may I know her Name. You knew her Father my
+Lord, <i>says he</i>, and then Sir <i>Martin Marrall</i> told him
+whose Daughter I was. And are you engag'd to her,
+<i>Cloridon</i> ask'd? She has promis'd to marry me the
+16th of this Month, <i>said Orontes</i>, and therefore my
+Lord, I hope you wont take it ill if I leave you
+upon so weighty an Affair. <i>Cloridon</i> was not in
+humour of making many Compliments; but he
+ask'd abundance of Questions, of the beginning
+and progress of his Love, and how I had us'd him
+all the time; but he could not much boast of my
+Favour, which pleas'd <i>Cloridon</i>, and encourag'd
+him to endeavour to break off the Match. He told
+<i>Orontes</i> he should be oblig'd to go to <i>London</i> that
+day, but he would come back again before he went
+away; so he left him, and immediately took his
+Journey; and as soon as he arriv'd, came to our
+Lodgings, where he found my Mother and I together.
+Judge of my surprize at this Sight, my
+first Thoughts were of <i>Orontes</i>; I sigh'd when I
+compar'd 'em with one another, and had a thousand
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">191</a></span>different thoughts which I know not what
+to make of. <i>Cloridon</i> Addressing himself to my
+Mother, <i>said</i>, Madam, I am come to beg a Favour
+of you, which I should hardly have the Confidence
+to ask, if the whole satisfaction of my life did not
+depend upon it. My Mother told him, that she
+could not refuse any thing to one whom she ow'd
+so much to; and that she should think her self
+happy if she could serve him in a thing which he
+said concern'd him so nearly. He return'd some
+Compliments, and then desir'd her to hear him
+out with Patience, which she promis'd, and he
+begun, I have a long time had a great Love and
+Respect for your Daughter, and would have given
+all the World to have seen her sometimes; but she
+refus'd it me; and I bore her Rigour without
+Murmuring, in hopes the time would come when
+I could tell her I lov'd her without offending her
+Virtue: But I can't live when I have lost that
+hope, and therefore am come to beg you not to
+marry <i>Olinda</i>, as I am told you design; and I will
+make her Fortune greater than what she can expect
+from <i>Orontes</i>. How, my Lord, <i>interrupted
+my Mother</i>, what strange Proposition is this you
+make me? Be not angry with me, or fear me, <i>continu'd
+he</i>, for the moment you grant what I intreat
+of you, I will leave you, and never desire to see
+<i>Olinda</i> again, as long as I continue in the Condition
+I am in; But 'twill be a great Happiness
+for me to think, that she may one Day be mine;
+and to be assur'd she will never be any others; and
+if she be not chang'd, or that I am not much mistaken
+in her, she will not be averse to it. He was
+in the right, for though I was never an Enemy to
+Marriage, yet I always preferr'd a single Life to it;
+and I found enough of my stifled Flame revive
+to make my Wishes comply with his. When my
+Mother saw me much inclin'd to it, and knowing
+I had only consented to marry <i>Orontes</i> in compliance
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">192</a></span>of her; she began to think of it as a thing
+might be done, but that she had given her Word
+to <i>Orontes</i>, and could not go back from it. But
+<i>Cloridon</i> told her, she need not be in any Fault in
+that, if she wou'd but make use of the occasion
+would be given her to break off with <i>Orontes</i> without
+Examining further. She made some other
+Objections, but he Answer'd them all, and upon
+his Knees Swore, that if I Married <i>Orontes</i>, neither
+he nor my Husband would survive it: So partly
+out of fear of what might happen, and partly out
+of inclination to oblige him, and willingness to
+please me, my Mother consented. <i>Cloridon</i> begg'd
+leave to talk with me, before he took his last leave,
+which he did, and made me some little tender
+Reproaches, for having resolv'd to Marry; which
+I answer'd with a more reserv'd Kindness than I
+had sometimes done; and that was the Subject of
+many Letters he sent me since; for he often writes
+to me. Two Days before we were to be Marry'd,
+<i>Orontes</i> was to come to Town, which <i>Cloridon</i>
+knew, and had provided half a dozen Soldiers
+to seize upon him in the King's Name, (for
+he was suspected for an Enemy to the Government.)
+They did so, and told him they were
+commanded to keep him a close Prisoner in a
+House hard by, till further Order. He would fain
+have Writ, but they would not let him, for they
+said they had Orders to the contrary. There they
+kept him a Week, and we wonder'd we heard nothing
+of him, not knowing what methods were
+us'd to hinder us; and to avoid seeing our Friends,
+who would enquire the Reason, we thought it best
+to retire hither, this being a private Place. When
+<i>Cloridon</i> knew I was out of Town, he went himself
+to free him, and told him things had been
+misrepresented, and he had been wrong'd; but in
+requital he would procure him any Employment
+he would name; but he did not accept it. When
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">193</a></span>he came to enquire for me, no Body could tell him
+where I was: But a Friend with whom I had left
+such Orders, told him, that I had taken it so ill,
+that he should slight me so far, as neither to
+come, nor to send to me, in so long time, that
+whatever he could say for himself, I wou'd never
+forgive him, nor so much as hear him. He was
+no doubt troubled at it, but he was not a Man to
+take any thing much to Heart; and <i>Cloridon</i> knowing
+he had not dealt very fairly by him, was very
+desirous to oblige him some other way: And indeed
+he did him a very considerable Service not
+long after, for he was really accus'd privately to
+the King of a Plot, which wou'd have cost him
+his Life, if <i>Cloridon</i> had not taken a great deal of
+pains to free him, more than he could have expected
+in such a ticklish Affair as that; and had
+like to become himself suspected by it: So that I
+think he has been more his Friend in saving his
+Life, than he was his Enemy in taking his Mistress
+from him. This is, <i>Cleander</i>, the true Cause of
+my Retirement, which is very agreeable to me,
+whilst I hear often from you, and whilst <i>Cloridon</i>
+continues to think of me. I have sent you a Copy
+of Verses which he writ to me just after I came
+hither.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Nor cou'd my Rival, when those Charms</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>By thee were destin'd to his Arms,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Be half so bless'd as I, to find</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The lovely Nun for me Confin'd:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Nor when of all that Bliss bereav'd,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>He saw his full-blown hopes deceiv'd,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Cou'd be so curst as I to see</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>My self Exil'd from Heav'n in thee.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Strange Contradiction in my Fate,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>At once a blest and wretched State:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>But who&mdash;what Lover wou'd not choose</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Thus to gain all, tho' all he lose?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">194</a></span><i>So Merchants strive their Lives to save,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Threaten'd by ev'ry Wind and Wave,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>And see with joy the long'd for Coast,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Tho' all they ventur'd for is lost.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in"><i>Cloridon</i> has just sent me word that <i>Orontes</i> is
+dead of the Small-Pox; so that I shall come to
+Town sooner than I design'd. The expectation of
+seeing you pleases me extreamly; for tho' I find a
+great satisfaction in conversing with you by Letters;
+yet 'tis not so full and perfect at this distance,
+as when I am with you. I can't tell you my
+Thoughts so well, nor know yours; a Question
+suddenly started, or sometimes a Look, will discover
+more to me than you know of your self;
+and I would know you not as you seem to the
+World, or what you think of your self, but what
+you are; for though you are more sincere than other
+Men, yet there is no Man but deceives the
+World in some things, and himself in more;
+and therefore to be a good Man, 'tis absolutely
+necessary to have a true Friend; and
+since you have made choice of me, I can only
+attone for my want of other Qualifications, by
+my Fidelity, which you may always rely upon.
+Will not the World, when they see so tender, so
+constant an Affection betwixt us, be convinced of
+that receiv'd Error, that there can be no such intimacy
+betwixt two of different Sexes without the
+Passion of Love; In us I'm sure they can't suspect
+it; when they see you have so much Love for
+<i>Ambrisia</i>, and me so forward to promote its being
+reciprocal. I wish it may have that Effect,
+that the Women may no longer scruple to bestow
+their Friendship upon a Worthy Man, for
+fear of misconstructions; both Sexes will find
+their Advantages by it. Yours is more capable to
+instruct and form our Minds; than the wisest of
+our own; and ours will be more apt to curb that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">195</a></span>Licentiousness, which Men usually encourage one
+another in: And what happiness will it be for us
+to see our selves the Instruments of all the Men's
+becoming Good, and all the Women Wise? (A
+more extraordinary Reformation than <i>Luther</i>'s.)
+Let our Friendships then be so Exemplary, that all
+may emulate, and wish to live like us; and by
+endeavouring, find that there's a purer and more
+solid Satisfaction one moment with a Friend, than
+Ages thrown away upon the Gallantries, which
+so take up the Hearts, and steal the Hours of our
+Youth. Adieu <i>Cleander</i>, correct the Errors of my
+Life with a gentle Hand of Friendship, and always
+be as much my Friend as I am yours,</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="right">
+<i>OLINDA</i>.</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_mid_letters2.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_letter_eight.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+
+</div>
+<h4><em class="gesperrt">Letter VIII.</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">196</a></span></h4>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Olinda</span> <i>to</i> <span class="big">Cloridon.</span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>In Answer to a Letter which he sent her
+with the Copy of Verses in the sixth of
+the foregoing ones.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/drop_cap_letter_eight.png" width="10%" height="10%" class="floatl" alt="'T" title="'T" />
+<span class="hidden">'T</span>IS not an Hour ago since I believ'd I
+hated you: I thought I could have rail'd
+at you, have call'd you base, seducer of
+my Honour, Traytor, that under a pretence
+of Love, design'd my Ruin; but Ah! those
+tender Excuses which you sent me, soon discover'd
+the mistake, and show'd me it was only
+Angry Love, that so Transported me: And now
+'tis turn'd to as violent a Grief, which wou'd fain
+ease it self in Complaints: But I am so wretched,
+that even that poor Comfort is deny'd me; for
+who can I complain to, when in lamenting my
+Misfortune I must expose our Crime: For yours
+my Lord, has involv'd me in the guilt; and all
+those thoughts and Actions, which were innocent
+before, must be condemn'd as the Causes of such
+ill Effects: For if I had never lov'd you, or if
+I had never own'd it, nor consented to see you,
+you had not desir'd any thing of me that could
+shock my Virtue: Now, I can't think of 'em
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">197</a></span>without Shame and Anger. That Love which
+shin'd before so Pure and Bright, appears now the
+Blackest thing in Nature; and I hate my self for
+not hating you; for I own (tho' I blush in owning)
+that I love you still; Nay, I believe that I
+forgive you too; but I must never, never see you
+more: No, though you swear you Repent, and
+that you would not repeat your Crime, if you
+were certain of success. Would not you believe
+I should as easily Pardon your breach of this Vow,
+as I did the last, which you made me as solemnly?
+Yes, you would, my Lord, and I should be betray'd
+to things I never thought of yet: For all is solid,
+convincing Reason that you speak; and I should
+soon believe any thing you would have me.
+Curse on that fond Credulity that first deceiv'd
+me into a belief, that 'twas no Sin to love you.
+Yet sure it could not be an unpardonable Fault,
+to value one that so infinitely deserves it: To
+Love, to See, and Talk with one whose Conversation
+is so Charming as yours; and that was all
+I wish'd. All that know you do the same; Why
+then am I more guilty? Ah! If your Fame had
+been as pure as mine, we had both been Happy and
+Innocent; so innocent, that she, that happy she, who
+claims all your love as her due, (even she, I think, if
+she had known our Hearts) could not have been offended
+at it: But who is there, the most uninterested,
+that would not now condemn us; Nay,
+the most Partial could not excuse us; even we
+should blame our selves. Why will you then importune
+me still to see you; ask me no more,
+what I dare never grant; and believe&mdash;&mdash;but
+you know, 'tis not unkindness makes me Refuse
+you: You know I must be Wretched in your
+Absence; yet think me easie and satisfied, if it
+will contribute any thing to your quiet; or rather
+don't think of me at all. Let us make our
+selves as happy as we can; I will endeavour to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">198</a></span>forget you; don't Write to me, if you love me
+well enough to forbear it: And if you can cease
+to love me, without hating me; for I don't find
+I have force enough to bear so great a misfortune,
+which is the only one can add to the weight of
+those which have already almost sunk</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><span class="r4">
+<i>The Poor</i></span><br />
+<span class="right">
+OLINDA.</span></p>
+
+<div class="img">
+<img src="images/decoration_end.png" width="30%" height="30%" alt="end decoration" title="end decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="l65" />
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap"><span class="big">The Augustan Reprint Society</span></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center">WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK</p>
+<p class="center">MEMORIAL LIBRARY</p>
+
+<p class="center">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES</p>
+<p><br /><br /></p>
+<p class="center">PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT</p>
+
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+<img src="images/reprint_society.png" width="10%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" />
+</div>
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center"><b>1948-1949</b></p>
+
+<div class="table">
+<table width="100%" summary="publications">
+<tr>
+<td>16.</td><td> Henry Nevil Payne, <i>The Fatal Jealousie</i> (1673).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+18.</td><td> Anonymous, "Of Genius," in <i>The Occasional Paper</i>, Vol. III, No. 10
+(1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to <i>The Creation</i> (1720).</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2"><b>1949-1950</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>19.</td><td> Susanna Centlivre, <i>The Busie Body</i> (1709).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+20.</td><td> Lewis Theobald, <i>Preface to the Works of Shakespeare</i> (1734).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+22.</td>
+<td> Samuel Johnson, <i>The Vanity of Human Wishes</i> (1749), and two
+<i>Rambler</i> papers (1750).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+23.</td>
+<td> John Dryden, <i>His Majesties Declaration Defended</i> (1681).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2"><b>1951-1952</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+31.</td>
+<td>Thomas Gray, <i>An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard</i> (1751), and
+<i>The Eton College Manuscript</i>.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1952-1953</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+41.</td>
+<td> Bernard Mandeville, <i>A Letter to Dion</i> (1732).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1963-1964</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+104.</td>
+<td> Thomas D'Urfey, <i>Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds</i>
+(1706).</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1964-1965</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>110.</td><td> John Tutchin, <i>Selected Poems</i> (1685-1700).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+111.</td><td> Anonymous, <i>Political Justice</i> (1736).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+112.</td><td> Robert Dodsley, <i>An Essay on Fable</i> (1764).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+113.</td><td> T. R., <i>An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning</i> (1698).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+114.</td><td> <i>Two Poems Against Pope</i>: Leonard Welsted, <i>One Epistle to Mr. A.
+Pope</i> (1730), and Anonymous, <i>The Blatant Beast</i> (1742).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1965-1966</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+115.</td><td> Daniel Defoe and others, <i>Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal</i>.
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+116.</td><td> Charles Macklin, <i>The Covent Garden Theatre</i> (1752).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+117.</td><td> Sir George L'Estrange, <i>Citt and Bumpkin</i> (1680).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+118.</td><td> Henry More, <i>Enthusiasmus Triumphatus</i> (1662).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+119.</td><td> Thomas Traherne, <i>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</i> (1717).
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+120.</td><td> Bernard Mandeville, <i>Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables</i> (1704).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1966-1967</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+123.</td><td> Edmond Malone, <i>Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to
+Mr. Thomas Rowley</i> (1782).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+124.</td><td> Anonymous, <i>The Female Wits</i> (1704).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+125.</td><td> Anonymous, <i>The Scribleriad</i> (1742). Lord Hervey, <i>The Difference
+Between Verbal and Practical Virtue</i> (1742).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+126.</td><td> <i>Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur
+Boileau: Made English by N. O.</i> (1682).</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr class="center">
+<td colspan="2">
+<b>1967-1968</b></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">
+127-</td></tr>
+<tr><td>128.</td><td>Charles Macklin, <i>A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers</i>
+(1746). </td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><i>The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy</i> (1747).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+129.</td><td> Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to <i>Terence's Comedies</i> (1694) and
+<i>Plautus's Comedies</i> (1694).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+130.</td><td> Henry More, <i>Democritus Platonissans</i> (1646).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+131.</td><td> John Evelyn, <i>The History of Sabatai Sevi, The Suppos'd Messiah
+of the Jews</i> (1669).</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+132.</td><td> Walter Harte, <i>An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad</i>
+(1730).</td></tr></table></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Publications of the first fifteen years of the Society (numbers 1-90) are available
+in paperbound units of six issues at $16.00 per unit, from the Kraus Reprint
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+<p>Publications in print are available at the regular membership rate of $5.00 yearly.
+Prices of single issues may be obtained upon request. Subsequent publications
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+<hr class="l65" />
+
+<p class="center">REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1968-1969</p>
+<div class="table">
+<table summary="publications" width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td>133.</td><td>John Courtenay, <i>A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson</i> (1786).
+</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Introduction by Robert E. Kelley.</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+134.</td><td> John Downes, <i>Roscius Anglicanus</i> (1708). Introduction by John Loftis.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+135.</td><td> Sir John Hill, <i>Hypochondriasis, a Practical Treatise on the Nature and Cure of that Disorder Call'd the Hyp or
+Hypo</i> (1766).</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Introduction by G. S. Rousseau.</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+136.</td><td> Thomas Sheridan, <i>Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English
+Language</i> (1759).</td></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Introduction by G. P. Mohrman.</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+137.</td><td> Arthur Murphy, <i>The Englishman From Paris</i> (1756). Introduction by Simon Trefman. Previously unpublished
+manuscript.</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+138.</td><td> [Catherine Trotter], <i>Olinda's Adventures</i> (1718). Introduction by Robert Adams Day.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1968-1969</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>After THE TEMPEST</i>. Introduction by George Robert Guffey.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Next in the continuing series of special publications by the Society will be <i>After THE TEMPEST</i>, a volume including
+the Dryden-Davenant version of <i>The Tempest</i> (1670); the "operatic" <i>Tempest</i> (1674); Thomas Duffet's <i>Mock-Tempest</i>
+(1675); and the "Garrick" <i>Tempest</i> (1756), with an Introduction by George Robert Guffey.</p>
+
+<hr  />
+
+<p class="in">Already published in this series are:</p>
+
+<p>1. John Ogilby, <i>The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse</i> (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner.</p>
+
+<p>2. John Gay, <i>Fables</i> (1727, 1738), with an Introduction by Vinton A. Dearing.</p>
+
+<p class="hang">3. Elkanah Settle, <i>The Empress of Morocco</i> (1673) with five plates; <i>Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco</i> (1674)
+by John Dryden, John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell; <i>Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco Revised</i> (1674)
+by Elkanah Settle; and <i>The Empress of Morocco. A Farce</i> (1674) by Thomas Duffet; with an Introduction by
+Maximillian E. Novak.</p>
+
+<p class="in">Price to members of the Society, $2.50 for the first copy of each title, and $3.25 for additional copies. Price to
+non-members, $4.00. Standing orders for this continuing series of Special Publications will be accepted. British and
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+<li>p. <a href="#Page_viii">viii</a>: "Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal" should be "Bibliothèque de
+l'Arsenal"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_136">136</a>: "seem'd not to blelieve" should be "seem'd not to believe"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_143">143</a>: "LETTER V." should be "LETTER II."</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_150">150</a>: "<i>Ambrisia</i> cant hear" should be "<i>Ambrisia</i> can't hear"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_150">150</a>: "one wou'd thing" should be "one wou'd think"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_152">152</a>: "Whilst he he held" should be "Whilst he held"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_152">152</a>: "I had no apprehensons" should be "I had no apprehensions"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_153">153</a>: "You Honour me to much my Lord" should be "You Honour me too
+much my Lord"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_157">157</a>: "I refus'd, tho' unwillinglly" should be "I refus'd, tho'
+unwillingly"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_158">158</a>: "to the tothers Care" should be
+"to the others' Care"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_160">160</a>: "for he new my Name." should be
+"for he knew my Name."</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_164">164</a>: "that that and my Obedience" should be "that and my Obedience"</li>
+<li>p. <a href="#Page_176">176</a>: "in spight of the greatest Rigour" should be "in spite of the
+greatest Rigour"</li></ul></div>
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+THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
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+
+OLINDA'S ADVENTURES:
+
+Or the Amours of a Young Lady
+
+
+(1718)
+
+
+_Introduction by_ ROBERT ADAMS DAY
+
+
+PUBLICATION NUMBER 138
+
+WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
+
+UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
+
+1969
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL EDITORS
+
+William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+
+ASSOCIATE EDITOR
+
+David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+
+ADVISORY EDITORS
+
+Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_
+
+James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_
+
+Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_
+
+Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
+
+Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
+
+Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_
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+Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_
+
+Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+James Sutherland, _University College, London_
+
+H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_
+
+Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
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+CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
+
+Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+
+EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
+
+Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+A standard modern history of the English novel speaks of "the appearance
+of the novel round about 1700. Nothing that preceded it in the way of
+prose fiction can explain it."[1] Though today many scholars would
+assert that "nothing" is too strong a term, just how much of the
+original fiction written under the later Stuarts could "explain" Defoe
+and Richardson? Most late seventeenth-century novels, it is true, are
+rogue biographies, scandal-chronicles, translations and imitations of
+French _nouvelles_, or short sensational romances of love, intrigue, and
+adventure with fantastic plots and wooden characters. Only occasionally
+was a tale published which showed that it was not examples of the
+novelist's craft that were wanting to inspire the achievement of a
+Defoe, but rather the sustained application of that craft over hundreds
+of pages by the unique combination of talents of a Defoe himself.
+
+Such a novel is _Olinda's Adventures_, a brief epistolary narrative of
+1693, a minor but convincing demonstration of the theory that a literary
+form such as the novel develops irregularly, by fits and starts, and of
+the truism that a superior mind can produce superior results with the
+most seemingly ungrateful materials. Of Defoe, _Olinda's Adventures_
+must appear a modest precursor indeed; but measured, as a
+realistic-domestic novel, against the English fiction of its day, it is
+surprisingly mature; and if we believe the bookseller and assign its
+authorship to a girl of fourteen, we must look to the juvenilia of Jane
+Austen for the first comparable phenomenon.
+
+_Olinda's Adventures_ seems to owe what success it had entirely to the
+bookseller Samuel Briscoe. It appeared in 1693 in the first volume of
+his epistolary miscellany _Letters of Love and Gallantry and Several
+Other Subjects_. _All Written by Ladies_, the second volume following in
+1694.[2] It may have been the nucleus of the collection, however, since
+it begins the volume, and since Briscoe states in "The Bookseller to the
+Reader" (sig. A2) that various ladies, hearing that he was going to
+print Olinda's letters, have sent in amorous correspondence of their
+own--a remark that could indicate some previous circulation in
+manuscript. Another edition (or issue) of the miscellany, with a
+slightly altered title, was advertised in 1697, but no copy of this is
+recorded.[3] Nothing further is heard of _Olinda_ for some years, but
+meanwhile Briscoe became something of a specialist in popular epistolary
+miscellanies, perhaps because he was a principal employer of Tom Brown,
+much of whose output consisted of original and translated "familiar
+letters." In 1718 Briscoe assembled a two-volume epistolary collection
+with the title _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several
+Occasions_; this collection was apparently made up of the best and most
+popular items in his miscellanies of the past twenty-five years.[4] Here
+_Olinda_ appears in much more impressive company than the anonymous
+"ladies," for the collection includes the first letter of Heloise to
+Abelard (said to be translated by L'Estrange) with actual correspondence
+and epistolary fiction by Butler, Mrs. Behn, Dennis, Otway, Etherege,
+Dryden, Tom Brown, Mrs. Mary Manley, Farquhar, Mrs. Centlivre, and other
+wits. Another edition (or issue) was advertised for W. Chetwood in 1720;
+and if the edition of 1724 ("Corrected. With Additions") is really the
+sixth, as Briscoe's title-page states, _Olinda_ must have reached a
+respectable number of readers.
+
+_Olinda_ enjoyed another distinction, nearly unique for English popular
+fiction before 1700. While by the middle of the eighteenth century
+novel-readers in France were reveling in the adventures of the English
+epigones of Pamela and Clarissa, defending their virtue or exhibiting
+their sensibility in translation, the current of literary influence
+before Defoe ran overwhelmingly in the opposite direction. _Olinda_
+anticipated the Miss Sally Sampsons of sixty years later by appearing in
+1695 in a French translation as _Les Amours d'une belle Angloise: ou la
+vie et les avantures de la jeune Olinde: Ecrites par Elle mesme en forme
+de lettres a un Chevalier de ses amis_.[5] Whether merit or mere chance
+accounted for this unusual occurrence it is impossible to say; the
+translation of _Olinda_ is a faithful one, though the text is at times
+expanded by the insertion of poems into Olinda's letters, with brief
+interpolated passages which rather awkwardly account for their presence.
+Curiously, the volume closes with a list of books printed for Briscoe,
+indicating either that the French translator would do anything to fill
+up space, or that Briscoe may have been exploring the possibilities of a
+French market for his wares.
+
+While _Olinda_ was ascribed merely to an anonymous "young lady" in the
+first edition, the editions of 1718 and 1724 gave it to "Mrs. Trotter."
+This lady, who since 1707 had been the wife of the Reverend Patrick
+Cockburn, a Suffolk curate, was then living in relative obscurity (her
+husband, having lost his living at the accession of George I, was
+precariously supporting his family by teaching), though she had enjoyed
+a certain literary success in King William's time and would later be
+heard from as a "learned lady" and writer on ethics. The fact that her
+maiden name was used, though not likely in 1718 to add very much luster
+to Briscoe's collection, and the similarities between the heroine's
+situation and Mrs. Trotter's own early life (to be discussed later) make
+Briscoe's attribution seem worthy of acceptance. It is true that if Mrs.
+Trotter wrote _Olinda_ she did it at fourteen. But she had been a child
+of astonishing precocity; she had produced a successful blank-verse
+tragedy at sixteen, and both Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Jane Austen
+were to perform similar novelistic feats (to say nothing of Daisy
+Ashford).
+
+Catherine Trotter (1679-1749)[6] was the daughter of David Trotter, a
+naval commander who died on a voyage in 1683, and Sarah Bellenden (or
+Ballenden), whose connections with the Maitland and Drummond families
+seem to have helped support her and her daughter in genteel poverty
+until she gained a pension of L20 per year under Queen Anne; Bishop
+Burnet was also her friend and patron. Catherine, a child prodigy,
+learned Latin and logic, and is said to have taught herself French; she
+extemporized verses in childhood, and at fourteen composed a poem on Mr.
+Bevil Higgons's recovery from the smallpox which is no worse than many
+"Pindarics" of the period. In 1695, however, Catherine Trotter
+established herself as a female wit with the impressive success of her
+tragedy _Agnes de Castro_, adapted from Mrs. Behn's retelling of an
+episode from Portuguese history. It was produced at the Theatre Royal in
+Drury Lane in December, with a prologue by Wycherley and with Mr. and
+Mrs. Verbruggen and Colley Cibber in the cast. _The Fatal Friendship_, a
+tragedy produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1698, had a moderate
+success; two later plays did not. But Mrs. Trotter gained the
+acquaintance of Congreve, Dryden, and Farquhar, and was well enough
+known to be lampooned in _The Female Wits_ (1704; acted 1696) along with
+Mrs. Pix and Mrs. Manley. In 1702 she turned to more serious writing,
+and her _Defence of the Essay of Humane Understanding_ and other
+treatises defending Locke's theories against the charge of materialism
+were impressive enough to earn her a flattering letter from Locke
+himself; she also corresponded with Leibniz, who analyzed her theories
+at some length. _The History of the Works of the Learned_ printed an
+essay of hers on moral obligation in 1743, and in 1747 Warburton
+contributed a preface to one of her treatises.
+
+If we are willing to admit that _Olinda_ is Mrs. Trotter's work, its
+virtues may be explained in part by seeing it as romanticized
+autobiography. Olinda, like Mrs. Trotter, is a wit and something of a
+beauty in adolescence, a fatherless child living with a prudent mother
+who is anxious to marry her off advantageously, and a solicitor of
+favors from noble or wealthy connections. Of the details of her
+character and circumstances at this time, however, no information is
+certain, and we must rely upon two presumably biased contemporary
+portraits. Mrs. Trotter gets off lightly in _The Female Wits_; she is
+represented (in "Calista," a small role) as being somewhat catty and
+pretentious, vain of her attainments in Latin and Greek (she has read
+Aristotle in the original, she says), but her moral character is not
+touched upon.[7] Another account of her early life, in Mrs. Manley's
+fictionalized autobiography and scandal-chronicle, _The Adventures of
+Rivella_ (1714), may be entirely unreliable; but its author was
+certainly well acquainted with Mrs. Trotter, and what she says of her
+life in the 1690's, what is narrated in _Olinda_, and what Mrs.
+Trotter's scholarly memoirist Thomas Birch relates are similar in
+outline, similar enough so that we may speculate that the same set of
+facts has been "improved" in _Olinda_, perhaps maliciously distorted in
+_Rivella_. Cleander, the Platonic friend of the novel, Orontes, the
+kidnapped bridegroom, and Cloridon, the inconveniently married noble
+lover, appear to be three aspects of the same person; for Mrs. Manley
+tells at length (pp. 64-71) of "Calista's" relationship with "Cleander"
+(identified in the "key" to _Rivella_ as Mrs. Trotter and Mr. Tilly).[8]
+John Tilly, the deputy warden of the Fleet prison, whose mistress Mrs.
+Manley became and remained until 1702, first met her, she says, through
+Mrs. Trotter, who sought her aid in interceding with her cousin John
+Manley, appointed chairman of a committee to look into alleged
+misdemeanors of Tilly as prison administrator. Mrs. Trotter, says Mrs.
+Manley, was a prude in public, not so in private; she was the first,
+"Cleander" said, who ever made him unfaithful to his wife. Mrs. Manley
+goes on, with a tantalizing lack of clarity (pp. 101-102):
+
+     [Calista's] Mother being in Misfortunes and indebted to him, she
+     had offered her Daughter's Security, he took it, and moreover the
+     Blessing of one Night's Lodging, which he never paid her back
+     again.... [Calista] had given herself Airs about not visiting
+     _Rivella_, now she was made the Town-Talk by her Scandalous
+     Intreague with _Cleander_.
+
+Whatever the truth about Mrs. Trotter's adolescent amours may have been,
+or whether they have any connection with Olinda's fictional ones, must
+remain a matter for speculation; but the artistic merits of _Olinda_ are
+in no such doubt. Although technically it may be called an epistolary
+novel, its author is no Richardson in marshalling the strategies of the
+epistolary technique. Nevertheless, although it is actually a fictional
+autobiography divided somewhat arbitrarily into "letters," the
+postponement of the letter to Cloridon until the end, the introduction
+of what might be called a subplot as Olinda tries to promote Cleander's
+courtship of Ambrisia and notes its progress, the breaking off of the
+letters at moments of (mild) suspense, the bringing up of the action to
+an uncompleted present, all these show an awareness of fictional
+mechanics that is far from elementary. Indeed, a contemporary critic
+might go so far as to see in the novel's conclusion an anticipation of
+the "open-ended" realism of plotting so much applauded at present; for
+though Orontes has been got out of the way, Olinda has not yet been
+rewarded with Cloridon's hand by a similarly happy turn of fate, and
+must patiently await the demise of his inconvenient wife as anyone
+outside of melodrama might have to do. The contretemps and
+misunderstandings, the trick played on Olinda with regard to Cloridon's
+fidelity and her subsequent undeceiving, the closet-scene and its
+embarrassments, may smack of the hackneyed devices of stage comedy, but
+they are not clumsily handled, and they never make emotional mountains
+out of molehills.
+
+Perhaps the most salient qualities of _Olinda_, in contrast to the
+fiction of its day, are restraint and control. With the exception of the
+rather ridiculous way in which the complications are resolved at the end
+(Orontes's sequestration and death from smallpox), everything in the
+novel is planned and motivated with some care. Inclinations develop
+slowly and believably; the springs of action, barring a few not very
+fantastic coincidences and accidents, are anti-romantic--almost too much
+so. Indeed, such criteria of the "modern novel" as those proposed by Ian
+Watt[9] are all modestly but adequately met. Most important, the
+situation and behavior of the heroine, her values, and the world in
+which she lives are (but for their sketchy development) what a reader of
+Jane Austen might take for granted, yet are all but unique before 1740.
+
+Here is a middle-class heroine who is fully as moral as Pamela, but with
+a wry sense of humor; she defers to her mother as a matter of course
+when marriage is in question, yet would willingly evade parental
+decrees; she is capable of Moll Flanders's examinations of motive, yet
+sees through her own hypocrisies; she lives in London in reduced
+circumstances and agrees to a marriage of convenience although tempted
+to engage in a dashing adultery; and she endures the onset of both love
+and jealousy without melodramatic or sentimental posturings.
+
+Other technical achievements of _Olinda_ aside, the portrait of the
+heroine as she reveals herself to her confidant is the novel's most
+significant feature. A fictional heroine of this early date who can be
+sententious without being tedious, who is moderately and believably
+witty, who is courted by a goldsmith (even though, conformably to the
+times, he is named Berontus) rather than a prince borrowed from
+_Astree_, and who satirizes herself soberly for scorning him, who meets
+her ideal lover with a business letter rather than in a shipwreck, and
+who level-headedly fends him off because he is both married and a
+would-be philanderer, is a rarity indeed.
+
+_Olinda_ commends itself to the student of English literary history
+principally for two reasons: because it so ably anticipates in embryo so
+many features which the English domestic and realistic novel would
+develop in its age of maturity and popularity, and because we do not yet
+understand, and need to investigate, the cultural factors--literary,
+social, and economic--which prevented the kind of achievement it
+represents from being duplicated with any frequency for several decades.
+
+  Queens College,
+  City University of New York
+
+
+
+
+NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
+
+
+1. Walter Allen, _The English Novel_ (New York, 1968), p. 4.
+
+2. Advertised in the _Term Catalogues_, Trinity Term, 1693 (II, 466);
+Wing L1784, L1785.
+
+3. It is listed in Harold C. Binkley, "Letter Writing in English
+Literature" (unpublished Harvard dissertation, 1923).
+
+4. They included _Familiar Letters [of] Rochester_ (2 vols., 1697),
+_Familiar and Courtly Letters [of] Voiture_ (2 vols., 1700), _A Pacquet
+from Will's_ (2nd ed., 1705), _The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown_ (2-4
+vols., 1707--), and _The Lady's Pacquet of Letters_ (1710). Briscoe was
+not in every case the printer of the first edition.
+
+5. "A Cologne. Chez *****. MDCXCV." A copy of the volume is in the
+Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal in Paris.
+
+6. See DNB, _s. v._ "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "Catharine
+Trotter, the First of the Bluestockings," _Fortnightly Review_, N. S.,
+No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "Catherine
+Trotter--'the Scots Sappho,'" _Scots Magazine_, XXXIII (1940), 305-314.
+The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's _The Works
+of Mrs. Catherine Cockburn_ (2 vols., 1751), including letters and a
+prefatory biography.
+
+7. The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society's
+Publication No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by Lucyle
+Hook.
+
+8. Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B.
+Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," _MP_, XXXIII
+(1935-36), 270-271, for further details.
+
+9. _The Rise of the Novel_ (London, 1957), Chapter I.
+
+
+
+
+BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
+
+
+The text of this facsimile of _Olinda's Adventures_ (from the second
+volume of _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions_
+[1718]) is published with the permission of the Trustees of the Newberry
+Library. The unique recorded copy (in the Bodleian Library) of the
+duodecimo first edition of 1693 is too small and too poorly printed to
+be reproduced in the present series.
+
+
+
+
+    The SECOND VOLUME
+
+      OF
+
+    _Familiar Letters_
+
+      OF
+
+    =LOVE, GALLANTRY=
+
+    And several OCCASIONS,
+
+      BY THE
+
+    WITS _of the Last and Present Age_.
+
+    With the best of _VOITURE_'s Letters, Translated
+    by Mr. DRYDEN and Mr. T. BROWN.
+
+    ALSO THE
+
+    REMAINS
+
+      Of the Celebrated
+
+    Mr. =T. BROWN;=
+
+      BEING
+
+    LETTERS, POEMS and DIALOGUES
+    on the TIMES, not Printed in his
+    WORKS.
+
+    LONDON,
+
+    Printed for =SAM. BRISCOE.= 1718.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+  _Olinda's_ Adventures:
+
+  OR THE AMOURS
+
+  Of a Young LADY.
+
+By _Mrs._ TROTTER.
+
+LETTER I.
+
+
+  _Dear Cleander_,
+
+I Hope I need not tell you how uneasie this tedious Absence makes me;
+for I must confess as troublesome as I find it, and as much as I Value
+you, I can't but wish you may be able to guess at it by what you suffer
+your self: A strange Effect of the highest degree of Friendship; for if
+I had less for you, I shou'd not so earnestly desire to hear you are in
+Pain; but such Contradictions are no Mysteries to you, who understand
+so well the little Niceties of Friendship. That you may see I study
+nothing more in this Solitude than to oblige you; I've resolv'd to
+employ most part of my time in complying with that Request you've often
+made me, of giving you a particular account of all that has happen'd to
+me in my Life; tho' I fear I shall lose part of that Esteem which you
+have hitherto preserved for me, by acquainting you with some Passages of
+it, which yet I hope have nothing in 'em so ill, that the kindness of a
+Friend mayn't find out something in the Circumstances of the Story to
+Excuse: For tho' perhaps I have not always been so nicely cautious as a
+Woman in strictness ought, I have never gone beyond the bounds of solid
+Virtue. To put all to the hazard then, I will give you a faithful
+Account of all my Weaknesses. My Father dying, left me when I was very
+young, to the Tuition of a Mother, who as you know is qualify'd for such
+a Charge equal to any of her Sex; and she indeed perform'd her part as
+well as her small Fortune wou'd permit her, which was scarce sufficient
+to maintain her, in that Rank her Birth had placed her. However, she
+gave me all the Education that was necessary; but I believe you'll
+excuse me if I pass over all that occurr'd till I was Thirteen, for
+about that time I began to fancy my self a Woman, and the more to
+perswade me to it, I happen'd to be acquainted with a Gentleman whose
+Name was _Licydon_, who the first or second time I saw him, seem'd to
+have so much confidence in me, that he told me a long story of his Love,
+and ever after shew'd me all the Letters he either Writ to, or received
+from his Mistress: This you must think did not a little please me. and I
+thought my self as Wise as the Gravest Politician, when he ask'd my
+Advice in any of his Affairs, especially when I heard him commended by
+many for a Man of great Parts. One day that we were by our selves, we
+fell into a Discourse of Womens making Love; he Argu'd that 'twas very
+unjust to deprive 'em of the satisfaction of discovering a Passion,
+which they were as much subject to as Men: I said as much against him as
+I cou'd, but he had more dexterity to manage his Argument than I; so
+that I was easily brought to agree with him; but said 'twas well that
+custom was observ'd, since the complaisance which was paid by their Sex
+to ours, would sometimes oblige 'em to comply contrary to their
+Inclination; for I cou'd not imagine how they cou'd civily refuse a
+Lady's Intreaties. He told me if I wou'd write a Declaration of Love to
+him, he wou'd shew me how it might be Answer'd with a great deal of
+Respect, without any Love. I consented to do it, and accordingly did the
+next day, and he return'd me an Answer which satisfied me: This, tho' it
+may seem a trivial thing, you will find by the sequel, had like to have
+produc'd but ill Effects. Some time after this, he brought a Friend of
+his to Visit us, who was of a good Family; but according to the
+_English_ custom of breeding the younger Sons to Trades; he was a
+Goldsmith, but a great _Beaux_, and one who seem'd to have a Soul above
+his calling: He ask'd _Licydon_ if he had any pretensions to me, which
+when he assur'd him he had not, he told him he was very glad he had not
+a Rival in a Friend; for he was hugely smitten, and shou'd need his
+Assistance in his design; for he had observ'd such an intimacy between
+us, as gave him Reason to think he had great influence over me; and he
+was sure he wou'd not deny him, if he was not my Lover. _Licydon_
+assur'd him he had only a Friendship for me, and that he wou'd use all
+his Credit with me to perswade me to receive all His Addresses
+favourably; which he did as soon as he had an opportunity. He said all
+of him that he could imagine most engaging, and especially of the
+Violence of his Passion. I was well enough pleas'd with the Love, tho'
+not with the Lover; for 'tis natural at that unthinking Age to covet a
+croud of Admirers, tho' we despise them: But I believe I need not
+confine that Vanity to Youth, many of our Sex are troubled with it, when
+one wou'd think they were Old enough to be sensible of the Folly, and
+inconvenience of being continually Courted, and haunted by Men they have
+an indifference, or perhaps an aversion for For my part I think there is
+no greater Torment; but I was of another Opinion then, and therefore
+Rally'd at the Love, and seem'd not to blelieve it; which I warrant you
+gave great Encouragement to my new Lover, when he heard of it; for 'tis
+a great Sign one wou'd be convinc'd. So I'd best prepare my self for an
+Attack, which I did not expect long: It was begun by a _Billet Doux_,
+which came first to my Mother's Hands; and when she gave it me, she
+ask'd what Answer I wou'd return. I told her I was wholly to be Govern'd
+by her; but if I was to follow my own inclination I wou'd not answer it
+at all: My Mother reply'd, she thought it fit I shou'd Answer it; for
+she believ'd I cou'd have no aversion to him, and she did not think it
+an ill Match, considering my Circumstances. Then I desir'd her to indite
+a Letter for me, for I saw well enough I shou'd not please her. She gave
+me a Copy of one, that without saying any thing that was kind, gave him
+cause enough to despair; but I cou'd not dissemble my Looks and Actions,
+in which he observ'd so much Coldness, that tho' several Letters pass'd
+between us, that wou'd have given hopes to a Man the least apt to
+presume; he was often half an hour with me alone, without speaking one
+Word to me. At last he complain'd to _Licydon_ of the strange
+contradictions in what I did, and what I Writ; for whenever he begun to
+speak to me of his Love, I check'd him with such severe Looks, and
+turn'd the Discourse in such a manner, that he durst proceed no further,
+tho' my Letters seem'd much to his Advantage. _Licydon_ perswaded him
+(as perhaps he thought himself) that 'twas only my Modesty, and that
+perhaps I shou'd be more emboldned, if he cou'd get my Mother's consent
+to his Proposals. _Berontus_, for that was his Name, was as well
+satisfy'd with this, as if I had told him so my self; and away goes he
+immediately to my Mother, and tells her he's stark staring mad in Love
+with her Daughter: The next thing they talk of is Joynture, and
+Settlements, _&c._ and in fine they agree; So I am call'd for, and
+commanded to look upon this Spark as one that must shortly be my
+Husband; to give us the more freedom, my Mother leaves us together.
+'Well, Madam, (says he) I have no Opposites to struggle with, your
+Mother has given me her consent, and you have given me hopes that you
+will not refuse me yours. What shou'd I do in this perplexity? I had a
+firm Resolution never to Marry him; but I found my Mother so much set
+upon it, that I durst not let it be known; besides, I had engag'd my
+self so far in Obedience to her, that I did not know how to come off;
+but for the present I wou'd be whimsical, and take time to consider what
+I shou'd do hereafter. So I put on a pet, and said, _Berontus_, I don't
+know what advantage you think you have more than before; but I'm sure a
+Lover wou'd have found another way of Courting his Mistress, than by her
+Mother; and it may be you'll find your self never the nearer my Heart
+for having gain'd her: I hate a Man that will depend upon any other for
+my Favour than my self. 'Cruel Creature, _says he_, what pleasure do you
+take in tormenting me? You know that I love you with the greatest
+respect imaginable, and that I can't be happy but by you alone. I never
+had Recourse to your Mother till you had encourag'd me, and gave me
+leave to say it; your usage of me is very unjust. I knew well enough he
+was in the Right; but I wou'd not know it: So that we parted both much
+dissatisfied. How his Thoughts were employ'd I can't pretend to tell
+you; but I was continually contriving how to get out of this troublesome
+Affair. I cou'd find no way but to tell him sincerely, that all that I
+had writ in his favour was by constraint; that I was too young to think
+of Love, or Marriage, and so trust to his Generosity; and prevail with
+him, if possible, to let it fall of his side. The first time I had an
+opportunity of putting my design in Execution, I thought the poor Lover
+wou'd never have liv'd to see me beyond those Years which serv'd for a
+pretence for my refusal; but he was Wise enough to baulk me, 'If, _says
+he_ (after he was come out of his Dumps; for he was a quarter of an hour
+without saying any thing. You see he was much given to silence) 'If I
+did not imagine it your Hate that only study'd an Excuse, I shou'd wait
+with a great deal of satisfaction, till you were pleas'd to make me
+happy: But as it is, I shall die a thousand times with fear, that some
+other more happy in your inclinations than I, will rob me of you for
+ever. He said in fine, abundance of fine things, to perswade me to
+engage my self to him; but I wou'd not consent to it; and all I could
+say to him, was as little prevalent to make him desist his suit. He
+wou'd wait the Patriarch's Prenticeship rather than lose his Angel:
+Would it not be a sad Business if he should lose her after all? But I am
+afraid he's like, for her thoughts cannot be brought so low; they towre
+a little above his Shop, perhaps too high for her Fortune; but she's
+something too young to consider that, or to prefer her Interest to her
+Humour. But to go on with my Story; my Mother was well enough satisfied
+to have the Match delay'd; so that I thought I had nothing to do for a
+Year or two, but to wish some Accident might intervene to hinder it. But
+it was not long before a Servant we had in the House found me other
+Employment; I had complain'd of some Negligences she had been guilty of,
+when my Mother was out of Town, which were occasion'd by a fondness she
+had for one that waited upon _Licydon_: Upon which she had been like to
+be turn'd away, and being of a revengeful Spirit, she cou'd never
+forgive it. She had observ'd, that _Licydon_ often gave me, and I him,
+Letters in private; for when he had no other opportunity, he us'd to
+give me those he sent, or receiv'd from his Mistress, as we were taking
+leave, when I conducted him to the Door; which I often did, whilst my
+Mother was entertaining other Company; and I return'd 'em when I saw him
+again. This malicious Wench hoping to find something in 'em that might
+prejudice me, to _Licydon_'s Man (over whom it seems she had a great
+Influence) that she heard his Master was a great Poet, and that she had
+a great mind to see some of his Works, if he could contrive to let her
+into his Closet when he was abroad: The Servant who suspected nothing,
+promis'd her he wou'd let her know the first time his Master left his
+Key, which he very seldom did. He kept his Word with her, and after she
+had look'd over all his Papers, at last she found that Letter which I
+spoke of at the beginning. She knew my Hand well enough, and no doubt
+with Joy, put it into her Pocket, without being perceiv'd by the Fellow;
+and to lose no time, went presently to _Berontus_; to whom she said,
+That she was extreamly concern'd to see him deceiv'd by two that he
+rely'd so much upon, as her young Mistress and _Licydon_: And therefore
+she could not forbear telling him, that she had discover'd an Intrigue
+between 'em, and that they were so familiar, that if they were not
+Married already, she was sure they wou'd be very suddenly; with
+abundance of Circumstances of her own Invention, to make the Story more
+plausible. He did not believe her at first; but when she show'd him the
+Letter, it put him beyond doubt; so that after he had given her his
+Word, whatever Measures he took, not to discover her, she went away very
+well pleas'd, that she had depriv'd me of a Husband, and receiv'd a good
+Reward for it. _Berontus_ did not give his Rage and Grief leave to
+abate; but in the height of both, writ a Letter to _Licydon_, and
+another to me. You can't imagine how much I was surprized when I read
+it, and found it was a Chalenge, (for in that Confusion he had mistaken
+the Direction) to one whom he accus'd of betraying him in what was
+dearer to him than his Life: I cou'd not guess who it was design'd for,
+till _Licydon_ came in, and show'd me a Letter he had just receiv'd,
+which he believ'd was for me; and desir'd me to tell him who that happy
+Man was _Berontus_ complain'd so much of. I saw plainly then he was
+jealous of _Licydon_; but was not able to Divine the Cause: He gave me
+the Letter which contain'd these Words;
+
+_Wou'd to Heaven you had told me Truth, when you said you were too young
+to think of Love; you have thought of it too much_ Olinda, _for my
+quiet; but you were born to Torment me. It is my Fate, why do I complain
+of you? Pity me, if I fall by my happy Rivals Hand, and if you can,
+forgive me if I survive him. This is the last time I design to trouble
+you: I wish he may be more faithful to you than he has been to me:
+Adieu, Madam, pity the unfortunate_ Berontus.
+
+The Letter seem'd so full of Distraction, that I cou'd not chuse but
+pity him; for I really thought him Mad: But I did not think fit to shew
+_Licydon_ that which was design'd for him. When he was gone I sent for
+_Berontus_, but he refus'd to come, and 'twas with much ado after three
+or four times sending he was prevail'd with. I told him by what means I
+had seen both his Letters; but that they appear'd so great Mysteries to
+me, that I sent for him to explain 'em. 'Twas long before he wou'd let
+me know the Cause of his suspicions; but I was so importunate, that at
+last he show'd me the Love Letter I had writ to _Licydon_: Can I have a
+greater Proof than this, says he? I confess, reply'd I, you have Reason
+to think as you do; but you are much deceiv'd; and then I told him upon
+what occasion it was writ: I saw very well he did not believe me, and I
+knew not how to convince him, unless I cou'd find _Licydon_'s Answer,
+which at least wou'd clear him. I found it by good Fortune, and brought
+it to _Berontus_. Read this, said I, and you'll see whether it be true,
+that I Writ to _Licydon_ in earnest: You have nothing to accuse him of.
+After he had read it, he cry'd out in a violent manner, I have wrong'd
+the innocent _Olinda_, and I deserve to be hated by her for ever. Be not
+so transported I return'd coldly enough, I may love _Licydon_, tho' he
+be so indifferent: The Postscript fully clears you, reply'd _Berontus_,
+and makes me not dare to ask you to forgive me: Upon which I took it,
+and read these Words, which I had quite forgot. _I did not think one
+cou'd write so prettily of Love, and be so insensible of it; How happy
+wou'd that Man be, that shou'd receive such a one dictated by your
+Heart, as well as Hand._ I am sure none cou'd return such an Answer to
+_Olinda_. This Complement did me so much Kindness, that one wou'd think
+I shou'd be a better Friend to 'em than you know I am. _Berontus_ left
+me almost as angry at himself, as he was before at us; and did not come
+near me for some time after. When I told _Licydon_ what had pass'd
+between us, he was amaz'd: He Examin'd his Man, who had been in the
+Chamber, who confess'd the Truth; and our Servant, when she was tax'd
+with it, hardly deny'd it; and thus the whole Matter was discover'd;
+which had it not been for a happy Mistake, had probably cost one, or
+both of them, their Lives, and me my Honour. Two days after _Licydon_
+was Married, and so our Acquaintance broke off; for tho' his Wife came
+to see me and often press'd me to keep a Correspondence with her; I
+never did, for I knew she had been very Jealous of me before she
+Marry'd, and I would not hazard the reviving it. _Berontus_ easily
+obtain'd his Pardon of me (for you know I'm very good Natur'd) and so he
+continu'd to Visit me, taking all the pains he could to please me,
+without any thing remarkable happening, till three Monthes after, his
+Elder Brother, who had been at his Travels, and was reported to be dead,
+return'd; so that he was no longer able to keep the Conditions he had
+made with my Mother; for he had nothing to live upon but his Trade;
+which I afterwards heard he neglected very much, and took to that usual
+remedy of Cares, Drinking: He said it was to cure his Grief for the loss
+of his Mistress, and truly that is to be lamented, when the loss of a
+good Estate is the Cause of it. However he is comforted for both now,
+and Married to a Woman with a great Fortune. I was very glad to be rid
+of my Lover, tho' I was sorry 'twas by his misfortune.
+
+Thus _Cleander_, you have an account of the first Adventures of my Life;
+which made me early know some uneasie Hours: By the next Post I'll
+acquaint you with a Catalogue of Lovers (that is, they were my _En
+passant_, in taking their Rounds, and serv'd better to divert me than
+the most Romantick Constancy, without giving themselves, or me any
+trouble) but it's indeed time to make an end. Adieu my Friend, think of
+me always, and, Write as often as you can to _Olinda_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: _M. V^{dr} Gucht Sculp_
+
+_Olinda_.
+
+_Vol. 2_ _pag. 136_]
+
+
+
+
+LETTER V.
+
+
+TO proceed in Order to my Relation, I must begin with one, who in
+respect of his Years as well as the time in which I knew him, demands
+the Pre-eminence. He was a _Dutch_ Coll. about Threescore; Don't you
+think one of his Country and Years, will make a pretty Lover? But Old as
+he was, he had a Mistress in the House with him. I was younger than she,
+and I believe I may say, without Vanity, I had some other Advantages
+over her; so that the Old Spark had a Month's mind to me; and I, partly
+to plague her, and partly to divert my self, received all his Addresses
+with a great deal of complaisance. I cou'd perceive her fret within her
+self, tho she durst not shew it. She was in great fear of losing him;
+for the Man's Money had such Charms as aton'd for his want of 'em, tho'
+he was Ugliness in perfection; (if that ben't Nonsense) and 'twas the
+best Jest in the World to me, to see him squint an Amorous Glance upon
+me with one Eye, whilst 'tother was watching whether she took Notice of
+him; for we Lodg'd in one House together; so that I cou'd not avoid
+often being with them both, nor indeed did I endeavour it; for I took a
+malicious pleasure in laughing at their Follies: Since there's nothing
+so ridiculous as an Antiquated Lover, who has the Vanity to believe he
+is belov'd, and a Jealous Woman, who has not Discretion enough to hide
+it. That I might be sufficiently entertain'd with both, one day I began
+a Discourse of Young and old Lovers, preferring the last as more
+Constant, more Fond, and more Solid than the First: He Smil'd, and took
+me by the Hand, and gave me a thousand Commendations for the Wisdom of
+my choice; Nay, and so far forgot himself, that he apply'd it to
+himself, and said such passionate things as wou'd have been extravagant
+from a young Fellow. She with a great deal of Heat contradicted all I
+had said, and told all the Impertinences and Inconveniences one finds in
+an Old Man (which she experimentally knew better than I) without
+considering how far it touch'd him, she was so earnest against me. This
+made him so Angry, and her so out of Countenance when she reflected so
+upon what she had said, that I was never better diverted: So she did not
+know what Excuse to make for her self; and in fine, the Dispute grew so
+high, that at last they parted. Upon this the Coll. was hotter upon me
+than ever; he pester'd me continually with his Visits, and the Brute so
+little understood my Raillery, that he pretended an Interest in me, and
+wou'd check me when he saw any body younger than himself with me; but I
+gave him such Answers, that he did not know what to make of me. When he
+had Orders for _Flanders_, he told me I must prepare my self to go with
+him, and I should live as great and happy as a Queen; I said I wou'd go
+withal my Heart, upon Condition his Son should be always with us: The
+Old Man started, my Son, Child, what would you do with him? I think he
+is fitter company for me than you, says I, and so I left him, so
+asham'd, that he shunn'd seeing me ever after. He e'en went to
+_Flanders_ without me, and vow'd, young as he was, he wou'd never have
+any thing to do with Woman more. Thus I was rid of my Old Impertinent,
+whose place was soon supply'd by one of those gay youths who never wait
+for the slow gifts of pity, but Ravish little Favours from us, as if
+they were their due; who make it impossible for us to think it a Crime
+to give what they ask with so much boldness; and who are always
+endeavouring to divert her they design to please. He Courted me with
+Balls, Musick, and Entertainments, and in the midst of 'em wou'd now and
+then whisper some pretty Love Maggots. I was first acquainted with him
+at a Relations of mine at _Greenwich_: He was an Officer in the Army,
+and was then in the Camp upon _Black-Heath_; and being very well known
+in the House where I was, he came often there. He had heard several
+things of me to my Advantage, (for Fame generally flatters or detracts)
+as, that I sung well, was Handsom, and so forth: And I was told, that he
+was very well accomplish'd, and the Neatest, Prettiest, Gentilest young
+fellow that was to be seen in the whole Army: So that we had both a
+great desire to see one another, and were very well acquainted the first
+time we met: He told me he had a violent Passion for me, and he did not
+doubt but I had a little Love for him; he came to see me every Day
+whilst I was there; carried me to all the Diversions that were to be had
+about the Country; and when I was going to _London_, he told me he would
+soon follow me: But as soon as you come to Town, Faith _Olinda_, you
+shall Write to me, as you hope to see me again; for I can't live without
+hearing you Arriv'd safe. So I Writ a thousand little mad things, and
+he Answer'd me at the same Rate, only a great deal of Airy Love mingled
+with it. The following Week he came to see me, and from that day I was
+never suffered to rest for one frolick or other: All the time he staid,
+I liv'd a pleasant sort of a Life, till he went to Fight abroad, and got
+two or three new Mistresses to divert, for those sort of Men never
+remember the Absent; their Love never enters the Heart, nor do they
+often gain ours; they seldom fail to please indeed, and they force us to
+think of 'em sometimes whether we will or not; but they are neither
+Discreet, nor Constant enough to go any further: I suppose he forgot me
+as soon as he left me, and I was not much behindhand with him. After he
+was gone, I had scarce a breathing time before another of his
+Profession, more serious, and more designing, succeeded him: He had a
+good Estate, and pass'd in the World for a Man of Honour, and therefore
+was Received by my Mother favourably enough. I neither lik'd, nor
+dislick'd him; but treated him with Civility, till I found out that his
+designs were not very Honourable; and then I thought it time to alter my
+Behaviour: I forbid him to see me, and when he came to our Lodgings, I
+was deny'd to him, tho' he knew I was at home; upon which he left off
+coming, and when some of his Comrades ask'd him the Reason, he told
+them, he knew me too well, and that he did not think a Creature so young
+cou'd be so Lew'd. Observe, my Friend, how unhappy Women are, who are
+thus expos'd to lose either their Virtue, or their Honour; if I had
+comply'd with him, perhaps none wou'd have been more careful of my Fame
+than he: But how much my Choice is to be preferr'd, none but those who
+have experienced the unexpressible satisfaction it gives can know. I
+heard of it with a great deal of indifference, and did not so much as
+hate the Author of the scandal. The next in waiting was a _French
+Beaux_: He had a great stock of Wit, but more Vanity, a mighty
+Flatterer, and one who took much pains to perswade credulous Women that
+he lov'd them; and if he succeeded, he always forsook 'em, and sometimes
+gratify'd his Vanity to their Cost, who had been indiscreet enough to
+give him occasion. He laid his Baits to catch me, he Vow'd, and Swore,
+and Danc'd, and Sung eternally by turns; but I was too wary to be
+caught, tho' he made me a hundred Protestations, I was the only Woman he
+ever did, or ever cou'd Love; follow'd me where ever I went, and in
+spight of the greatest Rigour I cou'd use, wou'd not forbear haunting
+me. I did not know how to free my self from the Impertinence of this
+Fop; but I thought if I cou'd convince him of one Act of Inconstancy, he
+wou'd not have the Confidence to trouble me any more: I had many
+contrivances in Order to it, but at last I fix'd upon one that was
+probable enough to take with one of his Humour. I Writ a Letter
+(disguising my Hand) as from a Woman extreamly in Love with him, and
+desir'd him to tell me sincerely whither he was engaged or not; for I
+was too just to rob any Woman of his Heart, and too nice to be content
+with a part of it. I told him if he was free, I wou'd meet him, the next
+day at the Bird-Cage in the Park: He sent a very obliging answer to the
+unknown Lady; and said, he was passionately in Love with her Wit; that
+if her Beauty were Answerable, he must be undone; however 'twould be
+such a pleasing Ruin, that he waited with the highest impatience for the
+appointed hour, when he might assure her by word of Mouth, his Heart was
+wholly at her dispose. Just as I had done Reading this Letter he came
+in, and for a Proof of his Constancy, shew'd me that which I had sent
+him, with another, which he said was the Answer he design'd to send;
+wherein he told her, he was already so deeply in Love, 'twas impossible
+for him to change; with abundance of fine things of the Person he
+Lov'd. This was good sport for me, and I had much ado to keep my
+Countenance; I us'd all my Rhetorick to perswade him to stay with me; a
+thing I had never desir'd of him before, and now 'twas in vain: He
+pretended earnest business, and went long before the Hour, he was so
+very impatient. When he was gone, I chang'd my Clothes, took a Lady with
+me, who was Privy to the Affair, and went to the aforesaid Place. We
+were in Masks, and it being duskish, he did not know us; but after I had
+banter'd him for some time, I discover'd my self: I cannot describe to
+you the different Passions that affected him; sometimes he was in a Rage
+with me for putting such a Deceit upon him, sometimes he wou'd frame
+weak Excuses for what he had done, and sometimes he was not able to
+speak at all for Grief, that he was not only disappointed of a new
+Mistress, but had lost all hopes of gaining one he had Courted so long,
+with so much Assiduity. I went home, as well pleas'd with losing one, as
+I have sometimes been with making a Conquest, in full hopes I shou'd be
+plagued with him no more, and I was not deceiv'd. You see, _Cleander_,
+what a Miscellany of Lovers, if I may call 'em so, I have had, all of
+different humours, but none that had found out the Secret to please me:
+They have done enough if they contribute any thing to your diversion,
+and made a sufficient Recompence for all their former Impertinence to
+
+  _Your faithful Friend_
+
+    Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER III.
+
+
+  _My Friend_,
+
+THE Reflections you made upon my two last are so Just, so Profitable,
+and so Pleasant, that thro' them I see the Author's great Capacity, that
+can make so good use of such little things; and while I read, bless my
+kind Fate that made you my Friend, when the Good and Wise are so scarce;
+and wonder how so particular a Blessing came to be my Lot; which more
+than doubly satisfies for all I suffer'd by _Clarinda_'s falseness. I
+believe you think it strange I never mention'd her, in any of the
+Passages of my Life, since it was before many that I have told you of,
+that I knew and lov'd her: But I could not have Nam'd her without some
+Marks of kindness, that I either show'd, or receiv'd from her, which I
+would willingly forget, and cou'd not now speak of her, but when I put
+your Friendship in compensation with her Ingratitude. But since I am
+fall'n upon this Subject, I will let you know a little better than you
+do, the only Woman that I ever trusted, not with any Secret, for you see
+I then had none of consequence; but with my Love, and in that she
+betray'd me. Her Sister often told me, she was sorry to see so sincere a
+Friendship bestow'd upon one that knew so little how to Value it; that
+_Clarinda_ was the same to all, which she pretended to be only for me:
+That she was always fondest of her new acquaintance, and wou'd
+Sacrifice, or Ridicule the Old, the better to Caress 'em: But I knew
+there had been some Quarrels betwixt them, and therefore wou'd not
+believe it, till I found it too true; and then my partiality for her,
+chang'd into as great an Error on the other hand, for I involv'd the
+whole Sex in her Faults, and with _Aristotle_ (I hope one may condemn
+ones self with _Aristotle_) Repented that I had ever Trusted a Woman. I
+don't know whether I forgot I was one, or whither I had the Vanity to
+think my self more perfect than the rest; but I resolv'd none of the Sex
+was capable of Friendship; and continu'd in that Opinion till I knew
+_Ambrisia_, who (if one may judge by the Rule of Contraries, convinces
+me of injustice) for she is just _Clarinda_'s Antipodes. _Clarinda_
+loves new Faces, and professes a particular kindness at first sight;
+_Ambrisia_ is a long time before she goes beyond Civility, and never
+does but to those whom she has well observ'd, and found 'em Worthy:
+_Clarinda_ will Rail at one Friend to engage another: _Ambrisia_ cant
+hear an innocent person, tho' her Enemy, accus'd without defending 'em:
+_Clarinda_ will be one day fond to extravagance, and the next as
+indifferent for the same person: _Ambrisia_ is always the same, and
+where once she loves, she never changes: _Clarinda_ is easily angry:
+_Ambrisia_ is perhaps too mild. _Clarinda_ has Wit indeed, but 'tis not
+temper'd by Judgment, so that it makes her often do, and say a hundred
+things that call her discretion in question: _Ambrisia_ has a Solid and
+piercing Judgment, one wou'd thing all she says was the Result of
+premeditation, she speaks such Wise and such surprizing things, and yet
+her Answers are so ready, that one wou'd Swear she did not think at all;
+her Actions are always most regular; I believe she never cou'd accuse
+her self of an imprudent one. This is a true and unprejudic'd Character
+of both; and if you wonder how I cou'd love a Woman with such gross
+Faults, I must tell you, some of them I did not know then; some I
+excus'd, for I did not expect perfection, and some my partial kindness
+made me cover with the Name of some Neighbouring Virtue. You know,
+_Ambrisia_ has as great advantages of _Clarinda_ in Body as in Mind: I
+have often heard you praise her outward Beauty, and now I have shew'd
+you the Beauties of her Soul, tho' they are far greater than I can
+express, give me leave to wish her yours. Forgive me if I mingle a
+little self-Interest in my wishes for you, I can't resist a thought of
+joy for the hopes of finding two Noble Friends in one, by such a happy
+Union: Think of it _Cleander_; you only deserve one another. I know you
+will bid me take your advice, and shew you the way; but I shall tell you
+things that will convince you, my refusal is reasonable. I was just
+fifteen years old when a particular Friend of my Mothers buried her
+Husband; whose Grief was so great, that my Mother durst hardly leave
+her; she staid with her Night and Day, and manag'd all her Affairs for
+her. She went to _Cloridon_'s, who had had a Friendship for the
+Deceas'd; (for they were forc'd to make use of that, and his Authority
+in a business, wherein the Widdow had lik'd to be wrong'd) but Men of
+his Quality are not always at Leisure, and must be waited on; so that
+tho' my Mother went two or three times, she did not see him, and having
+other Affairs of her own, and her Friends in hand, besides being oblig'd
+to be much with her, she cou'd not Watch his Hours: However 'twas a
+thing of too great consequence to be neglected: So she Writ a Letter to
+him, and Order'd me to carry it, and to deliver it into his own Hand. I
+went often to his Lodgings before I cou'd speak with him, and carry'd
+_Clarinda_ with me: At last I was appointed an hour when I shou'd
+certainly meet with him, and she happen'd to be so engag'd, she cou'd
+not possibly go with me. I knew no body else I cou'd use so much freedom
+with, and was forc'd to go alone. I did not wait long before I was
+admitted, and he approach'd me with that awful Majesty which is peculiar
+to him; and that commands respect from all that see him. Whilst he he
+held the Letter I gave him, I look'd at him sometimes; but still I met
+his Eyes, so that I cou'd not view him well, tho' I saw enough to think
+him the Charming'st Man in the World: He ask'd my Name, and whose
+Daughter I was? which when I told him, he said he knew my Father very
+well; that he was a Worthy Man, and that for his sake he wou'd do any
+thing for me that lay within his Power. I thank'd him, tho' I took it
+for a Courtier's Complement, and desir'd an Answer to the business I
+came about. _I will go my self instantly_, says he, _to see what can be
+done in it, and give you an Account of it in the Afternoon; but there's
+so much Company at my Lodgings, that 'tis not a convenient place for
+you: Can't you come somewhere else?_ Yes my Lord, _says I_, very
+innocently, where you please: _if you will be in a Hackney Coach then,
+at Five a Clock by_ Covent-Garden _Church, I will come to you, and let
+you know what I can do for your Friend_. I told him I would, and went
+away very well satisfy'd with him, for I had no apprehensons of any
+design, from a Man of his Character. You know all the World thinks him
+the fondest Husband upon Earth, and that he never had a thought of any
+Woman but his Wife, since he Marry'd her. This made me secure, and I did
+not fail to go at the appointed hour. My Mother knew nothing of it till
+afterwards; for I did not see her that day. When he came to me, he told
+me, what he had done; inform'd himself of some things that were
+necessary for him to know, that related to the business, and assur'd me
+he wou'd do the Widow Justice. Then he renew'd his Promise to me with
+Protestations, that I shou'd command him as far as his Authority or
+Interest cou'd go; and beg'd me to make use of him either for my
+Relations, or my self, when ever I had occasion. After he had made me
+some Speeches of my Wit and Beauty, we parted, and as soon as I saw my
+Mother, I told her all that pass'd between us. She was extreamly pleas'd
+to have so great a Man her Friend; especially, one that she had no
+Reason to suspect of any ill Design, since he had taken no advantage of
+so favourable an opportunity as I had given him to discover himself, if
+he had any; nor had not so much as desir'd to continue the
+Correspondence. The next day the business was concluded more to our
+satisfaction than was expected. Sometime after this, a Gentleman of my
+Mothers acquaintance told her, he had a mind for a Commission in the
+Army, and that he would give a considerable sum of Money to any Body
+that would procure it. My Mother said she'd try her Interest, and made
+me Write to _Cloridon_ about it. He sent me an obliging Answer, and
+desir'd to see me at the same Place where we met before, that I might
+give him an exact Account of the Person I recommended, and Answer some
+Questions about him more particularly than I cou'd do by Writing. I did
+so in the first part of our Conversation; and then he began to talk of
+the many ills that Attend greatness, of which he said Flattery was the
+chief; for it was the greatest Unhappiness to be sooth'd in ones Faults:
+_But_ Olinda, continu'd he, _in you I see all that Sincerity and
+Ingenuity that is requisite for a Friend, and I shou'd think my self
+very Happy, if you wou'd let me see you sometimes; if you wou'd tell me
+of my Faults, and what the World says of me_. You Honour me to much my
+Lord, _says I_, but you have taken such care to make all Virtues your
+own, that there's no room left for Flattery, or Correction. To be short,
+after a great many Compliments of this Nature he told me, 'twou'd be an
+Act of so great goodness, that he was sure I cou'd not deny him. But
+what will the World think, _says I_, of such private Meetings? _If
+neither you, nor I, tell it, it won't be known_, says he, _as it should
+if I came to Visit: you. So that I may have the same Innocent Pleasure
+of seeing you, which you wou'd not deny me in Publick, without making
+any Noise: And since I assure you I have only a Friendship for you, it
+can't shock your Virtue_. I neither granted, nor deny'd him his Request;
+for I did not know whither I shou'd do the first, and cou'd not resolve
+to do the last; both because it might be a hindrance to our business,
+and because I was very well pleas'd with his Conversation. Nothing cou'd
+be more agreeable; he is a Man of as much Sense, and as great Address,
+as any I ever knew: But what is more to be commended and wondred at in a
+Statesman, he never promis'd any thing that he did not perform. He gave
+me his Word for the Commission I desir'd; appointed me a day when I
+shou'd meet him to receive it; and kept it punctually. These were such
+great Obligations, that I cou'd not but have some acknowledgments for
+'em. There was nothing talk'd of in our House, but _Cloridon_'s
+Generosity; and about that time, all the Town rung of some great Actions
+he had then perform'd: So that all things Contributed to encrease my
+Esteem of him. I Writ him a Letter of Thanks, and he told me in his
+Answer, that he desir'd no other Recompence for all he cou'd do for me,
+but to see me sometimes. I consider'd, that there was no danger in
+seeing a Man, that was so great a Lover of his Lady; and that profess'd
+only a Friendship for me: That if ever he shou'd change, I cou'd easily
+forbear it, and that whatever happen'd, my Virtue was a sufficient
+Guard. So I consented to it, without letting my Mother know any thing of
+it. But I must delay telling you what these secret Meetings produc'd;
+for time and Paper fails me, and will scarce give me leave to assure you
+that I am
+
+  _Your tenderest Friend_
+
+    Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER IV.
+
+
+YOU wou'd pity rather than chide me, _Cleander_, if you knew the Cause
+of my not Writing to you all this while. I have not been one moment
+alone for this Fortnight past, but condemn'd to entertain a mix'd
+company, all of different Humours, different ways of Living, and of
+Conversing; so that 'twas almost impossible to please one without
+Contradicting anothers Humour. You may judge how uneasie this was to me;
+for I've often told you, I had rather be all my Life alone, than with a
+Company that is not chosen: That I sometimes prefer Solitude even to the
+best, and that I had now retir'd to avoid the World: But I find one
+never enjoys any thing without disturbance that one places one's
+happiness in; and I was to blame to expect a singular Fate shou'd be cut
+out for me. But whatever Accident deprives me of any thing else I Love,
+I can never be unfortunate, if _Cleander_ continues to be my Friend. You
+may remember I broke off my last, where I had resolv'd to see
+_Cloridon_, as he desir'd. We met as often as we cou'd, extreamly to
+both our satisfactions: He told me all his little uneasinesses, and had
+so great a Confidence, in me, that he discover'd some Intreagues of
+State to me, that are yet unknown to some that think they are not
+strangers to the most secret transactions of the Court; and he never
+undertook any of his own Affairs of greatest moment, without asking my
+Advice. Thus we liv'd for two Months, and nothing past that gave me
+Reason to repent an Action, that was not ill in it self; but might be
+so by the Consequences of it, till one day, when he had been telling me
+several things which concern'd him nearly: _But there's one Secret_,
+says he, Olinda, _that I have never told you yet, tho' it takes up all
+my Heart: But 'tis that I believe you know it too well already_. I said,
+I cou'd not so much as guess at it. _What_, Olinda _interrupted, is it
+possible you shou'd be Ignorant, that I am the most in Love of any Man
+in the World? How cou'd you imagine, I that knew you so well cou'd have
+only a Cold Respect or Friendship for you? No no_, Olinda, _I Love you;
+I love you Ardently; I cannot live unless you give me leave to tell you
+so; and to hope that you will one day return it_. I was so amaz'd at
+this Discourse, I did not know what to Answer: It vex'd me to be oblig'd
+to alter my way of Living with him; but I did not find my self so Angry
+at his Love as I ought. However, I disguis'd my thoughts, and put on all
+the Severity that is needful in such Cases. I have more Reason to be
+displeas'd with such a Declaration from you my Lord, _said I_, than any
+other: You that say you knew me so well; What have you seen in me to
+Encourage it? Have I ever given you occasion to suspect my Virtue? Or is
+it that you are tired with my Conversation, and therefore take this most
+effectual means to be freed from it? _Inhumane Fair!_ said he, _Must you
+hate me because I love you? can you Resolve not to let me see you, only
+because you know I desir'd it more than before?_ In short, he said the
+most passionate things that a Lover can imagine; and tho' I found he
+mov'd my Heart too much, I dissembled well enough to hide it from him.
+Nothing he said, cou'd prevail with me to see him, and I hop'd Absence
+wou'd help me to forget him. He Writ many melancholly Letters to me,
+telling me all the Court took notice of his Grief; that it would shortly
+be his death, if I would not see him; and beg'd me to live with him as I
+had done, and he wou'd never speak to me of his Love. But still I
+refus'd, tho' unwillinglly. I was Angry at my self for thinking of him,
+and for being pleas'd, when some told in Company where I was, that he
+had been so out of Humour for some time, that no Body durst speak to him
+of Business. I lov'd to think it was for me, and ask'd a hundred
+Questions about him. But now the Publick Affairs oblig'd him to go to
+_Flanders_, where he perform'd Actions Worthy of himself. His Valour,
+Generosity, and Liberality were talk'd of everywhere, which still more
+and more engag'd me. I cou'd not but have some Inclination for so fine a
+Man, when I consider'd that he lov'd me too: However, I believ'd I had
+only that Esteem for him which I thought due to his Merit, and that
+Gratitude which the Obligations I had to him requir'd. But I grew
+insensibly more Melancholy than Usual. One Evening that my Mother and I
+were taking a serious Walk by the Canal in St. _James_'s Park, a
+Gentleman of her Country, and Acquaintance, seeing us at a distance,
+came to bear us Company: The Air being pretty Cool, we wore our Masks,
+and after we had made two or three Turns, he saw a Friend of his, of the
+same Nation, coming towards us. _That_, says he, _is_ Antonio, _Son to
+my Lord ---- He is a very well Accomplish'd Gentleman, and has a good
+Estate, I wish he were Married to_ Olinda. I know the Family, and have
+hear'd of him, _Replyed my Mother_, I shou'd not dislike the Match. By
+this time he was come up to us, and after having beg'd Pardon for
+intruding, and leave to Walk with us, he turn'd of my side. He had not
+seen my Face, for it was duskish, and I only made a Fashion of lifting
+my Mask upon our first Compliments; but yet he said abundance of fine
+things, of my Beauty and Charms. After half an Hours Conversation we
+were going home, and they would needs wait upon us, but one of his
+Servants met him, and told him he had been looking for him a long time;
+some Friends of his that were going out of _England_ the next day, staid
+for him in the Mall, and must speak with him immediately. So he left us
+to the tothers Care, and went back. The first time _Antonio_ met with
+his Friend, with whom he had seen us; he told him, he was so Charm'd
+with the Ladies Conversation, that he could not rest till he saw her
+again. He Answer'd, that he wou'd not like her if he had seen her, but
+he wou'd carry him to Visit one, whose Beauty wou'd soon make him forget
+her. _Antonio_ said that Wit and good Humour had far greater Charms for
+him, than the finest Face in the World: But that you mayn't think me
+obstinate, I will see her upon condition, that if her Eyes have not that
+influence which you expect, you will make me acquainted with that Lady
+whose Wit has engag'd me more perhaps than you imagine. He promis'd he
+wou'd, and so left him, and came to our Lodging: He gave us an Account
+of this Conversation, and desir'd us to continue the Humour, and not let
+him know we had seen him before; for he fancy'd a great deal of Pleasure
+in seeing me Rival my self. We agreed to it, and when they came, I
+entertain'd him with the greatest simplicity imaginable: For you must
+know I had an Aversion for him, which I cou'd give no Reason for (that
+Passion is as unaccountable as Love) and therefore I was pleas'd he
+shou'd think me a Fool, that he might not desire to see me again. I was
+glad to perceive he was uneasie in my Company, and to make him the more
+so, I talk'd very much, and very little to the purpose. When he was
+gone, he said to his Friend, _That if_ Olinda _had the other Ladies
+Soul, she wou'd be a dangerous Person; but that as she was, he cou'd no
+more Love her than a fair Picture: That her Folly had only made him the
+more eager to see the unknown, and therefore he claim'd his Promise_. He
+_Answer'd_, that he did not know what a second sight of _Olinda_ might
+do; but however not to be worse than his Word, he wou'd endeavour to
+contrive a Meeting, but he cou'd not promise he shou'd see her Face, for
+she was very shy of that, as she had some Reason. I was extreamly averse
+to seeing him again, but this Gentleman was so earnest with me, and my
+Mother said so much for it, for she was desirous to have us acquainted,
+that I was almost forc'd to go; but Resolv'd not to shew my Face. He
+carry'd _Antonio_ to the Park, at an appointed hour, when he said, he
+heard the Lady say she wou'd be there; and we met 'em as if by chance.
+We had a Conversation that wou'd have been diverting enough, if my
+Hatred for him had not made me think, all he did or said disagreeable:
+He told me I had been continually in his thoughts since he saw me, and
+that I had made such an Impression in his Heart, as cou'd never be
+alter'd. I said he must have a strange Opinion of my Credulity if he
+thought I cou'd believe he was in Love with a Woman he never saw. _Ah!
+Madam_, says he _how much more Charming are you Veil'd as you are than a
+Beautiful Fool that can only please ones Eyes: Such a one as my Friend
+here made me Visit the other day; and then he gave me a long Description
+of_ Olinda, _and Related all her Discourse; which indeed was very
+insipid_. We made some Satyrical Remarks upon the poor Lady, and then we
+parted, tho' _Antonio_ wou'd fain have gone home with us; but we wou'd
+not permit him. He was very importunate with his Friend after this, to
+make him acquainted with the unknown; but he said, he durst not carry
+him to see her without her leave; but he wou'd try to gain it, if he
+continu'd to desire it, after seeing _Olinda_ two or three times. He
+Reply'd, he wou'd endure so much Mortification, in hopes of so great a
+Blessing as he promis'd him, but it must be speedy, for a Lover was
+impatient; and he shou'd be better satisfied with seeing the Ugliest
+Face he could imagine; than with that doubt he was in. In short, he
+brought him to our Lodgings several times, and still I acted the Foolish
+part; but yet he confess'd to his Friend, that I had mov'd him a little;
+and he Refus'd to see me again for fear he said, that he shou'd Love a
+Woman that he cou'd not Esteem: But one moments interview with his other
+Charmer wou'd deprive _Olinda_ of that little part she had gain'd of his
+Heart. A little after some young Ladies that I knew, were going to the
+Play, and begg'd me to go with them: I was so chagrin, I cou'd not think
+of any diversions; but that made them the more pressing, urging it wou'd
+cure my Melancholy. So I went with them, and the first sight I saw was
+_Antonio_ and his Friend. The last seeing a Lady that was not handsome
+with me; it came into his thoughts to say, that was she that _Antonio_
+was in Love with. He gaz'd upon her with the greatest eagerness
+imaginable, for a long time; then turning to another that was with them;
+which of those two, _says he_, (pointing to her and me) do you like
+best? You amaze me with that Question, _Returned he_, for I think there
+is too great a Disparity between them, to leave any doubt that it must
+be _Olinda_: (for he new my Name.) You wou'd alter your Opinion, says
+_Antonio_, if you knew them both as well as I; for _Olinda_'s Beauty is
+more than doubly Valu'd by the others Wit, and solid Judgment. But
+_Olinda_ has both, _Replyed the Gentleman_; which I believe you can't
+but know if you have ever talk'd with, or heard of her: For every body
+gives her that Character. They Wrong her extreamly, says _Antonio_, for
+she is really Foolish to deserve Pity; I never Conversed with a Woman
+whose Company was so tiresome; she talks Eternally, and not one Word of
+Common Sense. 'Tis impossible your Friend here, who is a very good
+Judge, has often said such things of her to me, that I must think you
+mistake the Woman. I have been too often with her for that, says
+_Antonio_, you may rather believe my Friend Jear'd her. Then they
+question'd him about it; but he Laugh'd, and said, He never saw a pretty
+Woman, but he thought she had Wit enough; so that they did not know what
+to make of him; but _Antonio_, who would not have been sorry to find as
+much Wit in _Olinda_, as he imagin'd in one, whose outside did not
+please him so well; took some pleasure in fancying himself deceiv'd;
+tho' when he consider'd it seriously, he could not believe it. However
+he enquired diligently of all that cou'd inform him any thing of me,
+which did more confound him: For they agreed, that I was far from being
+a Fool, and he cou'd not imagine to what end I shou'd pretend it: But
+was Resolv'd to find it out. He came often to see us, and still found me
+the same Fool, till one day when we had a great deal of Company, I was
+extreamly put to it; for I did not care for making my self ridiculous to
+so many; and 'twas not good Manners to be silent; however, I chose
+rather to be Rude, than undeceive him: I often made as if I did not hear
+when I was spoke to; but I was obliged to Answer, when one said to me,
+what's the matter with you _Olinda_, that you are Dumb of a sudden? I am
+sure you ought not; for if it were pardonable in any Woman to talk
+always, 'twould be in you, that do it so well. I was so confused at this
+Compliment, that came so _male a propos_; that I believe I did not
+Answer it over wisely; but as my ill Fate would have it, a Lady in the
+Company took a Paper out of her Pocket, saying, _I am resolved to make_
+Olinda _speak whether she will or not; and I will leave you to judge,
+whether she does not do it well in this Song_. So she read one that I
+had Writ at her desire; for she sung very well. I would fain have denyed
+it, but I saw it was in vain, for Wit will out one way or other.
+_Antonio_ seemed overjoyed at this Discovery, and I was as much grieved:
+For no Woman had ever a greater desire to be thought Wise, than I to be
+thought otherwise. He came to see me every day from that time, and when
+his Friend told him, that he hoped he would not dispute _Olinda_'s Power
+any longer, since she made him so absolutely forget her, whom he had
+once preferred so much to her; he said, that it was not the same
+_Olinda_ whom he loved, for she had chang'd her Soul. Nor had he forgot
+the other, for it was that Wit, that same turn of Thought, and agreeable
+Conversation which he admir'd in her, that he ador'd in _Olinda_. I do
+not know, whether he ever knew, that they were both one Person, but he
+did not desire to see the other. When he discovered his Love to me, I
+entertained it so coldly, that he could have little hopes, but that is
+the last thing that quite forsakes a Lover: And it did not hinder him
+from persisting. He watched his opportunity, when he saw any thing had
+pleased me, but still he was Repulsed with greater Scorn. I took delight
+when he was with me, to Repeat often those Words in _Sophonisba; The
+Fort's impregnable, break up your Siege, there is one for you too mighty
+entered in; the Haughtiest, Bravest, foremost Man on Earth_. He
+importuned me extreamly to know who this Happy Man was; and Vowed if I
+would tell him, he'd never mention his Passion to me again; but I told
+him, if there was such a Man, it was the same Reason he should trouble
+me no more, as if he knew who he was; since that could make no
+alteration in my heart: And perhaps it was a Secret; however, that I
+would hear no more of his Love. He Begg'd, and Sigh'd, and Whin'd, an
+Hour or two to make me Reverse my Doom; but in vain; and I was pleas'd
+that he believed me in Love, tho' I did not think it my self. He
+continued to Visit me without saying any thing of particular to me; and
+without suspecting the Object of my Love; 'till my Mother and some
+Company were talking of the great Actions _Cloridon_ had done; just as
+they Named him, he looked at me, (by chance it may be) but I being a
+little Guilty, thought it was designed, Blushed, looked down, and was
+confused, which made me blush the more; and that was enough to fix a
+Jealousie that had long possest him, and that Watched for the least
+shadow of Reason to place it upon any particular person. I was so
+ashamed of my self, that I was not able to stay in the Room, and when I
+was gone, _Antonio_ kept up the Discourse of _Cloridon_; begun to praise
+his Person, and ask'd my Mother what she thought of him. She said, 'twas
+so long since she had seen him, that she had almost forgot him; but that
+her Daughter had seen him lately, (and so told upon what occasion) and
+that she Extolled him for the finest Man she ever saw. This confirmed
+his Jealousie; and the first Opportunity he had with me, he told me some
+News of _Cloridon_: And then asked me if I had ever seen him, and how I
+liked him. I knew nothing of what my Mother had said; and not being
+willing he should believe what I found he suspected; I answered, that I
+had seen him two or three times in Walks at a distance: That I thought
+he was well enough, but not so handsome as Fame had made him. There
+needed no more to remove all doubt that he was his Rival; but how to
+know the particular Terms we were in, was the difficulty; he knew his
+Character, and thought me Virtuous, and therefore could not fear any
+thing Criminal betwixt us; but he resolved to try if my Affections were
+strongly engaged; and to that end he shew'd me a Letter from _Flanders_,
+wherein it was told him, that _Cloridon_ (to the great wonder of all
+there) had a young Lady disguised in Men's Cloaths with him all the
+Campagne, and that it was discovered by an Accident, which he gave a
+large Account of. I found my self seized with an unusual I know not
+what, and did all my endeavours to conceal it, but I changed Colour two
+or three times, and he having his Eyes continually upon me 'twas
+impossible but he must observe my concern: However, he said nothing of
+it to me, and I forced my self to talk of things indifferent. As soon as
+I was alone, I examined my self upon the matter. Why should this trouble
+me (said I within my self) who would not entertain his Love, when it was
+offered me, and I have often Resolved never to see him, even when I
+thought him Constant? How comes it then, that I am so Grieved and Angry
+that he loves another? And that I wish with such impatience for his
+Return? In fine, I discovered, that what I had called Esteem and
+Gratitude was Love; and I was as much ashamed of the Discovery, as if it
+had been known to all the World. I fancyed every one that saw me, read
+it in my Eyes; And I hated my self, when Jealousie would give me leave
+to Reason, for my extravagant thoughts and wishes: Mean while _Antonio_
+would not be Idle, he thought this was the time for him; when my Anger
+was Raised against _Cloridon_; that that and my Obedience to my Mother
+(if he could get her of his side, which he did not much doubt) would
+induce me to Marry him; and then he did not fear, but Reason and Duty
+would overcome my Love. Accordingly he had my Mother's Consent, and
+entreated her to intercede for him; but all this was so far from having
+that effect which he expected, that I hated him the more: I was so
+unjust as to look upon him as the Cause of my Affliction, and I was so
+Angry to see him take such Measures, as I foresaw must make me very
+uneasie, that I treated him ill, even to Rudeness. But I will leave him
+and _Olinda_ equally unhappy, till the next Post; and then give you an
+Account of some Alteration in their Affairs, which if it gave her ease,
+I believe a little encreased his pains. In the mean time believe, that I
+remain
+
+  _Your Friend_, Olinda.
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER V.
+
+
+'TIS not possible for you to imagine, much less for me to express what I
+endur'd, by my own Jealousie, and _Antonio_'s Persecution: Either of 'em
+wou'd have been grievous enough, but together they were intolerable; and
+I cou'd expect no Remedy, for I knew not what I wou'd have. I did not
+continue one moment in the same Mind; I long'd for _Cloridon_'s Return,
+and yet I resolv'd not to see him, tho' when I thought that perhaps he
+would not desire it, I almost dy'd with the Fear; but that was soon
+over, for a Week after _Antonio_ had shew'd me the Letter I mention'd in
+my last, he came to Town, and sent me a Letter the first Night, fill'd
+with the tenderest expressions of Love, and Vows, that all his Fortune
+and Conquests abroad could not give him the least Joy, whilst I remained
+inexorable; and a hundred Entreaties to see him once, and he shou'd die
+contented. This was some satisfaction to me; but 'twas but imperfect:
+Sometimes I believ'd all he said, and presently after call'd him false
+and Perjur'd: One while I resolv'd not to answer him, and the next
+Minute chang'd my Mind; but I was long before I cou'd fix upon what to
+say. At last I writ with a great deal of affected coldness, only I gave
+him some dark Hints of the Lady I had heard was with him, which in his
+Answer he said, he did not understand. He writ several times to me by
+private Direction, which I had given him when I believ'd he was only my
+Friend; but a little after he sent to our Lodgings, to tell me, that he
+had a Place at his disposal, which if I had any Friend that wou'd accept
+of it, was at my Service. My Mother made me return him Thanks, and tell
+him, that I had a Relation who was very fit for the Employment, who
+shou'd wait upon him, but he was not now in Town. _Cloridon_, who
+desir'd no better occasion, sent me word, that if I wou'd let him see
+me, he wou'd tell me what was to be done in it; for it was not a thing
+to be neglected, because there were a great many pretended to it, who
+might get it by some other means, since it did not wholly depend on him.
+I did not know what pretence to make to hinder my going, for I durst not
+tell my Mother of our Meeting without her knowledge: And perhaps I was
+glad of the necessity of seeing him, since it took away the Fault, and
+serv'd for an excuse both to my self and him; tho' I was sorry to be
+forc'd to receive new Obligations from him. I never saw a Man in such an
+extasie of Joy, as he appear'd to be in at this Interview: He was
+Speechless and Motionless for a long time, and when he spoke, 'twas with
+so passionate and charming Words and Air, that I was not able to say
+those severe things I design'd. I check'd him for obliging me to see
+him, after I had refus'd him so often, that he might know 'twas contrary
+to my Inclinations; but (as he told me since) he saw something in my
+Eyes which made him think, I was not very Angry with him: And when I
+explain'd that part of my Letter which hinted of the Lady, I did it in
+such a manner, that he believ'd me Jealous. At first he seem'd amaz'd at
+what I told him, but afterwards he deny'd it so coldly, and took so
+little pains to perswade me 'twas false, that I was enrag'd; which still
+discover'd my Weakness the more. He found one pretence or other for
+delaying the Business, and for seeing me two or three times, and took
+pleasure in heightning my Jealousie; till he thought, if he trifled with
+me any longer, he might lose me for ever: And then he begun to protest
+seriously, There was no such thing, that it must be the invention of
+some particular Enemy of his; for if I wou'd give my self the trouble to
+enquire, I should find it was no general Report, and 'twere impossible
+it shou'd not be known by every Body, if what I had heard was true. We
+easily believe what we wish; and when I consider'd from whom I had the
+Story, I much doubted the truth of it: And whilst I saw him, and heard
+him Swear, he had never had the least inclination for any other Woman
+since he saw me. I was firmly perswaded of his Fidelity; but my
+suspicions return'd a little, as soon as I left him. He told me, he
+cou'd willingly forgive the Invention, since it had occasion'd the
+discovery of my Sentiments, which were to his Advantage; but reply'd,
+That he need not much boast of what my Weakness had reveal'd; for tho' I
+cou'd not now deny that my Heart took too great a part in what concern'd
+him, yet since he knew it, nothing shou'd prevail with me to see him
+again; and so I left him: But I cou'd not forbear saying at parting,
+that he had made me very unhappy, and I wish'd I had never seen him,
+tho' I condemn'd my self a hundred times for it afterwards. I ask'd of
+all I knew that had been in _Flanders_, or had any Correspondence there,
+if they heard of _Cloridon_'s having a Lady Disguis'd with him; but they
+assur'd me, there was not so much as the least Report of it, which
+pretty well satisfied me as to that: For every Action of a Man of his
+Quality, and in his Post, is so narrowly observ'd, that a thing so
+extraordinary cou'd not have been a Secret; but yet I was very desirous
+to know upon what ground that Letter was writ to _Antonio_. However I
+wou'd not examine him about it, because I saw he suspected my Love
+already, tho' he had never told me; but still continued my most
+assidious Humble Servant and Tormentor: And I think I was not much in
+his Debt, for I really treated the poor Man Barbarously. My Mother gave
+him all the opportunities she could, and one day that she had some
+business that would keep her out till Night; she left me at home, and
+gave Orders that no body should be admitted to see me but _Antonio_. I
+was so vexed at this Command, that I resolved to revenge my self upon
+him, and when I heard the Noise of one coming up Stairs, I prepared to
+give him the rudest Reception I could: I sate Reading with my back
+towards the Door, and did not rise when he came in, till I saw a Man
+kneeling by my side; and then without looking towards him, I got up and
+walked to the other end of the Room. _What, Madam_, says he, _is my
+Offence so great? Or do you hate me so much, that you will not hear me
+ask for Pardon?_ I found something in the Voice soft, and moving, which
+struck me like one I was accustomed to be pleased with; and turning
+about, I was amazed, Good God, _cryed I_, is it possible? Are you
+_Cloridon_; or do I Dream? How could you come here?----, _How could I
+forbear coming so long?_ interuppted he, _or how can I live a moment
+from you? I must see you_ Olinda, _whatever I hazard, and since you
+refused to let me a securer way, how could I neglect so favourable an
+opportunity_? Then I desired to know by what means he knew, that I was
+alone; and he told me, that since the last time he saw me, and that I
+had been so good as to own my self sensible of his Love, he had had a
+hundred Plots and Contrivances to see me; but found none so feasible as
+that, which he had put in Execution. He sent a Servant whom he confided
+much in, and Ordered him to try all means possible to know my Motions
+when I went out, and when I was at home alone; and he had found the way
+to gain the favour of a Servant that belonged to the Landlord of the
+House, (no doubt he feted her well,) and she had engaged to be secret,
+and to send him word when I was alone; but she did not know for whom she
+did this Service; only he had told her, that it was a Man of Quality
+that was in Love with me, and desired to see me privately, to know how I
+was affected towards him, before he declared himself publickly. He came
+to her that morning, and she told him, my Mother was gone out, and that
+she heard her say, she should not come Home 'till Night; so that if he
+would come with the Person that was to see me, she would be at the Door
+to conduct him to me: When they came, she told them, that a Gentleman
+that courted me had been there just now, but she denied that I was at
+home on purpose to oblige him. I was angry that he should take so little
+care of my Reputation; but he said, that it was not at all in danger,
+for no body knew of it but that Servant who would not tell it for her
+own sake; or if she did, she saw that 'twas all without my Knowledge.
+That if I would not give my Consent to see him abroad, he should do
+something more extravagant that might expose both me and him: But if I
+would, he'd promise never to speak of his Love to me. In sine, by
+Threatnings and Intreaties, and my own Inclination, I was prevailed
+with, after I had made him swear not to mention his pretended Passion.
+Forgive my Frailty, dear _Cleander_, it was not possible for me to
+refuse the Man I loved any thing that could admit of excuse, and I found
+or made Arguments enough to sooth my Inclination, and persuade me it was
+no Fault only to see him. I hastned him away for fear he should be seen
+with me, but he lingred on for two or three hours and just as he was
+going I heard _Antonio_'s Voice asking for me, so that he could not go
+out without meeting him. I was extreamly vexed, but this was no time to
+fret or chide. I desired him to step into a Closet, which I had in the
+Room; where I kept my Books, and told him I would contrive a way to be
+rid of the other quickly. When I had Locked him in, I took my Hoods and
+seemed to be putting them on, in order to go abroad, so that _Antonio_
+could not in good Manners stay; but he desired, since he was so unhappy
+as to be deprived of that satisfaction he expected in my Company, that I
+would lend him some Book to divert his Melancholy. I told him, that he
+would have found so little in my Company, that he needed not much mourn
+for the loss of it: But as my ill Fate would have it, he was so pressing
+to borrow a Book, that I knew not how to refuse it; I turned the
+Discourse and sat down, and said, I had altered my Resolution, and would
+stay at home. _Antonio_ wondred at this mighty Favour, he was so unused
+to receive any from me, that he was Transported at it: He thanked me for
+it a hundred times, and I believe presaged no little good Fortune for
+him from such a Change, tho' my way of entertaining him, gave him no
+great encouragement. If I should give you a particular Account of our
+Conversation, it would be as impertinent to you, as it was troublesome
+to me; I will only tell you, I never passed an Hour with half so much
+pain as that, having for addition to the usual uneasiness his Company
+made me endure, that of the unseasonableness of the time. Whilst I was
+fretting at this unhappy Accident, and fearing he would not go away till
+my Mother came home, our Landlord's Maid came to tell me, there was one
+below would speak with me: I went down and saw it was that Servant of
+_Cloridon_'s, which he had spoke of to me; he told me, that the King had
+sent twice for his Lord, and desired me to tell him, that he must of
+necessity go presently, for the business was of importance. This was a
+new Vexation; and I staid some time to deliberate what I should do, and
+at last, resolved to say I was sent for by a Lady that was Sick, that so
+_Antonio_ might be obliged to leave me. But how was I surprized, when I
+returned and found _Cloridon_ in the Room! I needed not dissemble an
+astonishment, for I was as much amazed to see him there, as if I had not
+known he was in the House. He advanced towards me, with a Ceremonious
+Bow, saying, _You have Reason, Madam, to wonder, and to be Angry at me?
+but when you know, that it is the general Frailty of Mankind that
+brought me hither, your goodness sure will pardon me: I mean Love,
+Madam, Love which makes the Wisest Men guilty of the greatest
+Irregularities_. I blushed at what he said, not apprehending his design,
+and told him his being there, and his Discourse were both so mysterious
+to me, that I did not know what to answer him. He said, he thought
+himself obliged to tell the Truth, since my Reputation would be in
+danger by concealing it: But first he must beg me to pardon the Servant
+of the House, and not to let her Master know of it; for he having taken
+a fancy to her, had wheedled her into a Consent, to let him come and see
+her, tho' the Wench was very honest: That our Family being all abroad,
+she had brought him into that Room, and hearing me returned, she had put
+him into the Closet, believing I would go out again: But finding I staid
+long, he had entertained himself with my Books, and in removing some had
+thrown down others, the noise of which had made _Antonio_ open the Door;
+and since it was his Fortune to be discovered in a Foolish thing, he
+hop'd the Gentleman and I, would let it go no further. We gave him our
+Word for it; and when he was gone, we both sat silent for a long time,
+each expecting what t'other would say: At last he begun. _Cloridon_ was
+hard put to it, to be forced to discover such a secret; he that has
+acquired the Reputation of Chast, found out to be so little Nice, as to
+take such pains, for one of so mean Quality, and one that has not many
+things to recommend her. You have the Luck, _said I_, to find out
+_Cloridon_'s Intreagues, when no body else knows any thing of 'em: And
+he may thank his Good Stars his secret falls into such hands; if you are
+as careful of this, as you have been of that in _Flanders_, which no
+body but you has ever heard of. _I shall certainly conceal it Madam_,
+replyed he, _for your Fame sake; for the malicious World would be apt to
+fancy his thoughts were something higher than a Dirty Wench, when he was
+put into your Closet: But I am to believe what you please, and if you
+tell me you never saw him before, but in Walks at a distance, I won't
+doubt of it_. I am not much concerned what you, or any thinks of me,
+_says I_, my satisfaction does not depend upon Opinion: And I shall be
+always happy, as long as I am innocent; whether you believe me so or
+not. However I owe so much to Truth, to assure you, that whatever
+designs _Cloridon_ had, I knew no more of his coming here than you did,
+and that I am very Angry at him for it. _If you had not told me so
+Madam, I should, it may be, have thought you would rather have lent me a
+Book, than endured my Company so long (which you always used to avoid)
+but that you feared I should see him, if you opened the Closet; but I am
+very glad, you will have me interpret your staying with me more to my
+advantage._ I was vexed he should think it was to oblige him; and since
+I found he was Master against my Will, of the greatest part of my
+Secret, I thought it best to make him a Confident of it, which would
+prevent his Addresses to me, and engage him to the greater Fidelity. I
+told him then, all that was betwixt us; and he gave me some good
+Counsels, not to cherish a Love, or entertain a Correspondence that
+might in the end prove dangerous, considering his Circumstances; but I
+was too far gone to take them, and besides, coming from a Rival, I did
+not make much Reflexion upon them. Advices by an interested Person, tho'
+never so reasonable, are not minded, or at least are much suspected,
+especially when they contradict the inclination of the Advised. I did
+not tell him, I had consented to see _Cloridon_, because I resolved not
+to tell him any thing, but what I could not conceal. I did not see
+_Antonio_ in a Month after, but he sent often to ask how we did, and
+said, _he was very ill himself_. He Writ once to me, to tell me he was
+endeavouring to overcome a Passion, which he found was displeasing to
+me, and which therefore must make him very unhappy; and to beg me, if he
+could effect it, to accept him as a Friend, and not continue that hatred
+for him then, which I had for my Lover. Mean while, the too Charming
+_Cloridon_ and I met together often: At first we entertained one another
+with all the News, and little Intreagues of the Town; he put so entire a
+Confidence in me, was so pleased to see me, and so obliging to me, and
+my Relations upon all Occasions, that I then thought my self happy, to a
+degree that left no Room for Wish; for he gave me the greatest evidences
+of his Love, without speaking of it to me, which was all I could desire
+from a Man, whose Love I preferred to every thing but Virtue; and who I
+could not hear talk of it without a Crime: But how easily are we drawn
+in by such steps as these, to things we had made the strongest
+Resolutions against. In some time he made Complaints to me, and spoke of
+his Passion in a third Person, so that I might understand him, but I
+could not be angry with him; and I knew not how insensibly, and by
+degrees I accustomed my self to hear of his Love; at first defending my
+self against it, and chiding him for breaking his Word; but his Excuses
+seemed to me stronger Reason than my Accusations; and at last I
+suffered it with Pleasure, and without Reluctancy. Thus my unwary Heart
+entangled it self more and more, pleasing it self with its own Folly,
+without looking backward or forward; happy for the present on all sides,
+for now I was no longer troubled with _Antonio_. He after a Months
+absence came to see me, and told me, he desired nothing of me now but my
+Friendship, and to convince me, he was not my Lover, he would tell me a
+secret in favour of _Cloridon_, if I would promise to forgive him; I
+told him I would, and then he gave me that Account which I have given
+you, of his first suspecting my Love, and how to try it, he had feigned
+that Letter which he shewed me; that he had resolved to undeceive me, as
+soon as he had discovered what Sentiments I had for him; but when he saw
+how it affected me, Jealousie would not give him leave, and love
+prompted him to make use of it to his own Advantage. He added, that tho'
+Love had made him guilty of Treachery so much contrary to his Nature,
+yet I should always find him the most sincere, and the most faithful of
+his Friends. Tho' I believed before that Story to be an invention; you
+cannot imagine how much I was pleased, to be sure of it now. I easily
+pardon'd him, since I had promised it, and since I thought he deserved
+it, having told it voluntary. From that time I received him more
+favourably than I used to do, and took some pleasure in his
+Conversation, because he was the only Man that knew of my Love, and that
+I could talk with freely of _Cloridon_. But now my Mother perceived I
+had some more complaisance than before for _Antonio_; she wondred he
+talked nothing of Marriage to her, and told me her thoughts, which put
+me upon new contrivances, how I might shun her Anger, and yet _Antonio_
+come off with Honour. I found him raise scruples against all the Methods
+I would invent, and often he asked me, if I design'd never to Marry,
+and what Reasons I could always give for not doing it; which made me
+apprehend he was not altred so much as he seemed; and fear I should have
+some trouble in this Affair, he had told me, that when he was very
+young, his Father had contracted him to a kinswoman of his, that lived
+in the House with them, who had a great Fortune, and he heard was
+handsome, and witty; but he went to his Travels before it could be
+known, whether she was either so; that he had never had any Love for
+her: I had a great mind to let my Mother know this, for I knew she was
+scrupulous in such things, and would not consent to Marry me to a Man,
+that had any engagement to another; but I was loath to do it, without
+his leave, since he was so sincere as to tell it me, and because I was
+afraid to exasperate him. I took a great deal of Pains to flatter him
+into a complyance; I told him my Mother could not have the worse Opinion
+of him for it, since it was a thing done when he was so young, and that
+he could have no other Reason to hinder him, now that he had no design
+upon me, which if he had, I should find other ways to disappoint them,
+tho' perhaps they might make me more uneasie. At last, with much
+difficulty he agreed to it, and when I told it to my Mother, I found her
+affected as I wish'd; which when _Antonio_ knew, he fetched a great
+Sigh, and only said, _Have I lost all my hope then, Madam?_ and so went
+away extreamly discomposed. A while after he came to take leave of us,
+and said his Father had sent for him in haste, to go to his own Country;
+but he told me in private, that he could stay no longer in a place,
+where he grew every day more and more unhappy; and that now he had
+resolved to leave it: He could not forbear telling me, that he had only
+concealed his Love all this while, to get into my Favour, and in hopes
+of finding something which might give him hopes. But since I had now
+deprived him of all, he would not encrease his Misery, by seeing every
+day the Objects of his Love, and of his Hate, his cruel Mistress, and
+his happy Rival. I am told his Father presses him extreamly to Marry,
+being his only Son, but he waves it. I should think I had given you a
+Description of a Miracle of Constancy in spight of Rigours and Absence;
+but that in this Age, kindness is a more effectual way to cure Love; an
+unlucky thing, since no body will attempt it, that has that design; but
+I, (or Fortune for me,) found you see, a less dangerous way to free my
+self, with more ease than I could hope, and I think it is time to
+deliver you now, and give you a little respite till next Post, when you
+may expect the continuance of the History of
+
+  _OLINDA_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER VI.
+
+
+IF I did not know to the contrary by my own Experience; you wou'd make
+me believe, that Friendship and Love can't be contain'd in one Breast.
+Is it possible you can be so much taken up with _Ambrisia_, that you
+have not time enough to tell me of it; and that in this Solitude, I
+should hear of _Cleander's_ Affairs from two or three, before I knew any
+thing of 'em from himself: They tell me you are every day with your New
+Mistress, and that you are well receiv'd there. I should be pleas'd with
+it, if I did not fear, instead of finding two Friends, to lose that one,
+whose Friendship I prefer to all other things: But you'll make me almost
+Jealous of her if you don't write quickly, for this is my fourth since
+I've heard from you. Tell me _Cleander_, you that search into the Nature
+of things, that know the Passions of Men; how they are form'd in the
+Soul, and by what means, and what Degrees they rise; tell me how I may
+give that Awe, that fear, or that Respect which I hear often talk'd of,
+that makes Men not dare to tell a Woman that they love her. Is it the
+Grave, the Sour, the Proud, or modest Looks? Or is there no such thing,
+but in Songs and Romances? For my part, I could never meet with it; and
+tho' perhaps there is some Pleasure in being belov'd, I cannot endure to
+be told of it, unless by the Language of the Eyes, or so; for that we
+need not understand: But there's nothing so dull, or so troublesome to
+me, as a declar'd Lover: This Reflection was occasion'd by an Adventure
+happen'd to me two days ago; a Stripling of Eighteen, whose Father and
+Mother had been Servants in the Family where I am, said to one in the
+House (who told me) that he was in Love with me, and after had the
+Insolence to tell me himself, that he was in Love; _But you little think
+with whom, Madam_, added he; and just as he was going to finish his
+Declaration, by good Fortune he was call'd away: Can any thing be more
+provoking? Teach me where to place my Anger, on the Men, or on my self.
+_Antonio_ was bashful to a Fault in other things, and yet he did not
+fear to say all he thought, and it may be more to me. _Cloridon_, who
+treated me with the highest Respect imaginable, discover'd his Love to
+me, as soon as he knew it himself; and many have pretended it, that
+never felt any, at least for me. The last indeed had encouragement
+enough, not to repent of what he had done, and Reason not to despair of
+any thing he could ask; so that after being two Years contented with my
+Love, he resolv'd to put it to the Trial, and begun to pretend to
+Favours, with all the Arguments he could invent, or find, to perswade me
+of the innocence and lawfulness of what he ask'd: You may find what
+influence they had upon me by the following Lines, which he sent me in a
+Letter next day.
+
+
+I.
+
+  _NOT one kind Word, not one relenting Look?
+    The harsh, the cruel Doom to mitigate?
+  Your Native Sweetness, ev'n your Eyes forsook;
+    They shin'd, but in the fiercest form of Hate._
+
+II.
+
+  _Is't Honour does these Rigid Laws impose;
+    That will no sign of gentleness allow;
+  That tells you 'tis a Crime to pity Foes,
+    And bids you all the utmost Rigour show?_
+
+III.
+
+  _All Praise the Judge, unwilling to Condemn,
+    Where Clemency with Justice long Debates:
+  But he who Rig'rously insults, we blame,
+    And think the Man more than his Sin, he hates._
+
+IV.
+
+  _Dare I my Judge accuse of Cruelty?
+    When at her Feet she saw her Slave implore,
+  With hasty Joy she gave the sad Decree:
+    I hate you, and will never see you more._
+
+V.
+
+  _Ay! 'tis too plain, the false_ Olinda'_s pleas'd
+    To see the Captive's Death her Eyes had made:
+  As what she wish'd, she the Occasion seiz'd;
+    No Sigh a kind Reluctancy betray'd._
+
+VI.
+
+  _If you intend to try your Power or Skill,
+    A Nobler way pursue the great Design:
+  The meanest Wretch on Earth knows how to kill;
+    But to preserve from Death's an Act Divine._
+
+VII.
+
+  _Like Heav'n, you with a Breath can Recreate
+    Your Creature, that without you does not Live:
+  Say that you Love, and you r'voke my Fate;
+    And I'm Immortal if you can forgive._
+
+VIII.
+
+  _My fiercest Wishes you shall then restrain,
+    And Love that tramples o'er my Heart subdue:
+  What doubt can of your mighty Pow'r remain,
+    When ever that submits and yields to you?_
+
+I believe I spoke from my Heart, when I told him I hated him; I'm sure I
+thought so then, when I saw him whom I believ'd to have an Esteem and
+Respect for me, act as if he had neither. I said the most violent things
+I could imagine against him, and left him without the least Reluctancy:
+But my Rage, or Hate, was soon converted to a Quiet Stupid Grief, that
+overwhelm'd my Soul, and left me not the Power of easing it the common
+way, in Tears or Complaints. I saw that I must resolve never to see him
+again, whatever it made me endure: And in fine, I saw all that could
+make me unhappy, without any hopes of a Remedy; for tho' he writ to me
+often to beg my Pardon, and Vow'd a thousand times he wou'd not be
+guilty of the same fault again, tho' he were sure to be successful; yet
+I prevail'd with my self absolutely to refuse to see him, with more
+Resolution than I thought my self capable of; for I consider'd it was
+dangerous to trust him, notwithstanding his Protestations, since he had
+broke his Word before: And I don't know if I had not some Reason to
+distrust my self, after having gone so far, as not only to suffer him
+to talk to me of his Love, but to own mine to him. When he saw this
+would not do, he had recourse to his old way of Writing upon Business;
+but the Letter came first to my Hands, and so I stifled it, and said
+nothing of it to my Mother. A Week after a Porter came to me, and said
+he was sent by the Countess of ---- who desir'd me to go immediately to
+her Lodgings, for she had something of great Consequence to tell me, and
+that he left her at a place where she had Din'd, but she was just going
+home. Away I went, and when they told me she was not at home, I thought
+she would not fail of being there presently, and went up Stairs to Stay
+for her: When I came into the Room, I saw _Cloridon_ there, and wou'd
+have retir'd; but he civilly hinder'd me, and told me, he was waiting
+for his Cousin (for this Lady was nearly related to him) whom he
+expected to come in very soon; but 'twas a great happiness I came
+before, and more than he cou'd have hop'd for from Fortune; for at first
+he pretended it was Chance brought us together there; but he knew I must
+find it out, and so to prevent my discovering it to the Lady, he told
+me, that coming to Visit her, and not finding her at Home; it came into
+his thoughts to send for me in her Name; for he knew that she us'd to
+visit me, and often desir'd me to go abroad with her, or to bear her
+Company at home; so that he hop'd he might succeed without being
+suspected. I was in great confusion, and very angry at the Trick he had
+put upon me; and yet I could not but be a little pleas'd at it too. I
+lov'd to see him, and was glad of an opportunity to give him his Pardon,
+which I did, but made a Vow never to consent to meet him in private,
+tho' he begg'd it upon his Knees above an Hour, and said he would not
+rise till I had granted it: I suppose he was not so good as his Word;
+but I left him in that posture, and before I went away, and charg'd him
+not to write to me any more. This Interview serv'd but to increase my
+melancholy; I indulg'd it a long time, and thought upon nothing but what
+sooth'd and added to it: But at length considering the occasion of my
+misfortune, it represented itself to me, not only as my Folly, but my
+Crime; and then I concluded it must be a Crime to grieve for the loss of
+that, which 'twas a Crime to Love; and so fix'd a resolution of
+overcoming my Passion, which I endeavour'd to do by Reason, and by
+Diversions. Had I had you my Friend to assist me with your Counsels, I
+had found it much less difficult; but now I had the strongest part of my
+self to Combat without any Aid: I often gave Ground, and sometimes
+suffer'd my self to be vanquish'd by the bewitching Reflections of what
+unequall'd Satisfactions I had found in his Company, and how many happy
+hours I enjoy'd with him; but some good Thought would rouse my Soul to
+strive again, and then the Victory was mine. I find by Experience 'tis
+but bravely, heartily, and thoroughly Resolving upon a thing, and 'tis
+half done: There's no Passion, no Temptation so strong, but Resolution
+can overcome: All is to be able to Resolve; there's the Point, for one
+must lose a little of the first Ardour before one can do that; and many
+of our Sex have ruin'd themselves, for want of time to think. 'Tis not a
+constant settled purpose of Virtue will do; there must be particular
+Resolutions for a particular Attack; 'Tis easie enough to say, no Man
+shall prevail with me to do an ill thing; the difficulty is, such a Man
+shall not; he that I love, he that 'tis Death for me to deny any thing
+to: There I got the better of my self, and as last attain'd to a calm
+serenity of Mind, which I have enjoy'd ever since, as much as can be
+expected in such a World as this; and which nothing can disturb, if you
+continue to have that Friendship for me which you have profess'd, and
+which your Silence makes me almost doubt of; but there's hardly any
+thing I could not more easily believe, than that _Cleander_ is False or
+Inconstant. Write quickly, for I am impatient to know the Cause of this
+unkindness to
+
+  _Your constant Friend_,
+
+    OLINDA.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+LETTER VII.
+
+
+_AMbrisia's_ Cruel, Coy, Disdainful, and you believe she hates you; and
+yet _Ambrisia_ took occasion at Play to impose upon you as a Penance,
+not to write for a Month to one she believ'd you lov'd. If this had been
+another's Case, you wou'd have discover'd that _Ambrisia's_ Jealous.
+Trust me, she loves you, and only puts on the usual Disguises of Women
+as sincere as she is; and give me leave to justifie her, and the rest of
+our Sex in that Case: You have learn'd so well to feign Love, when you
+have none, that 'tis very hard to discern Art from Nature; and 'tis but
+reasonable we should be allow'd the less Guilty part of concealing ours,
+till we can know whether you are sincere: Besides, we know those things
+are most valu'd, that are obtain'd with most difficulty; and your
+natural Inconstancy gives us Reason to use all means to make you prize
+us as much as we can. Your selves too, encourage us in it, for you
+despise a Woman that's easily gain'd, tho' you rail at the Dissembler;
+and we can't begin to love just when you would have us; so that both for
+our own sake and yours, 'tis sometimes necessary to deceive you: And I
+believe I may add, that there is a Natural Modesty in some Women, that
+makes 'em asham'd to own their Love. Mr. _Dryden_ in his _State of
+Innocence_, gives our Mother _Eve_ a little of that; tho' some are of
+Opinion, it had its Birth from your faithlessness; and that if you had
+not been false, we had never been shie. If it be so, don't you think we
+have Reason to be cautious in a thing of such Weight; But I need not
+take such pains to defend this Cause, for mine was a Fault on the other
+hand, a too easie discovery of my Love: And to speak the Truth, whatever
+we are accus'd of, I believe that's the more general one. 'Tis only
+those that are as Wise as your Mistress, that can have so much Command
+over themselves, as to be guilty of the 'tother; tho' if she knew you as
+well as I do, she wou'd find that she has no need to make use of any
+Arts to try you, or to preserve you: However don't despair, the Mask
+will soon fall off. You have Reason to wonder at my breaking off with
+_Orontes_, since by what I have told you, _Cloridon_ cou'd be no
+occasion of it: But suspend your amazement a little, tho' my Misfortunes
+ended at Seventeen, my Adventures did not, and several things have
+happenn'd to me in the Year I have pass'd since, which you are yet a
+Stranger to. You neither know how my Acquaintance begun with _Orontes_,
+nor why it ended. In the beginning of last Summer, when I was
+endeavouring to divert my Love and Grief, I went with a Lady to see a
+Play: She was not in humour to Dress, and would needs have me go
+_Incognito_; and as we were coming out of the Play-House, we were seiz'd
+upon by two Sparks, who swore they would not part with us; but that
+either we should Sup with them, or they wou'd go with us. We did not
+know how to be rid of these Impertinents, but we saw, if we took Coach,
+we could not hinder them from going into it; so we resolv'd to walk to
+our Mantua-maker, who liv'd hard by; and when we went in they left us,
+as we thought: but a quarter of an hour after, they came up Stairs, and
+tho' we were very angry at the Rudeness, yet they staid a pretty while;
+and he that had at first apply'd himself to the other Lady, was very
+pressing to be acquainted with her; but my Spark sat down just opposite
+to me without saying a Word, only sometimes desir'd his Friend to go
+away; which after he had plagu'd us half an Hour, they did: The next
+Week I went to _Tunbridge_ with my Mother; and the first sight I saw at
+the Wells, was this Gentleman: He came towards us very respectfully, and
+said he was very glad of this opportunity of begging my Pardon, for the
+Insolence he had been guilty of; he hop'd the Lady who was with us, whom
+he had the Honour to know, would intercede for him. She that was in the
+Country with us, and who you know is an intimate Friend of ours,
+happen'd to be very well acquainted with him; and when we came home, she
+told me that his Name was _Orontes_; that he was a Gentleman who had but
+a small Fortune; but to repair it, he was Marry'd to a rich Widow above
+Threescore and ten; that tho' she was very ill Natur'd, he was the best
+Husband in the World to her, but he would take his pleasure abroad
+sometimes, and she was extreamly Jealous. He came to visit this Lady,
+and entreated her to carry him to see me; for he said he was sensible of
+the Affront he had given me the first time he saw me, and that he was
+very desirous of some Occasion to serve me; and he thought himself
+obliged to tell me so, and to seek all Opportunities of doing it. She
+consented to it; and he came often to see us, and was very obliging to
+us. I will let you know my thoughts of him, because you can tell me if
+they are just; for he said he was not the same Man with me as with any
+Body else: He seem'd to me to have Wit enough, but 'twas rough and
+unpolish'd; nothing of that Politeness which renders a Man agreeable in
+Conversation. After the common Theams of the Weather, and News were
+discuss'd, playing at Cards, or taking the Air, were certainly propos'd:
+But I have heard, that in other places he was very entertaining, and had
+a hundred pleasant Stories to divert the Company. What can be the reason
+of this? I am sure he stood in no awe of me, as his future Actions
+shew'd; and he always told me his Thoughts freely, but plain and blunt,
+without giving 'em the turn of Gallantry, which is necessary to take;
+and yet he could not want Breeding, for he always convers'd with People
+of the First Quality. The Manner is often more look'd upon than the
+Thing; and tho' I'm as little pleased with Forms as any Woman, yet in
+some things 'tis the essential part; there are few Men, whose Esteem or
+Respect I covet; but I would have all Men keep that distance with me, as
+if I gave 'em Awe; but I could never obtain it of 'em; tho' none ever
+gave me so much occasion to lament it as _Orontes_. Once, when he was at
+our Lodging, my Mother was talking of a Journey she design'd the next
+day about Ten Miles off, where she was to stay all Night: He asked me if
+I went with her: I said _No_; and desired my Mother to return as soon as
+she could; because I should be alone till then. It seems (as he told me
+since) he had made an Appointment with a particular Friend of his about
+Business of Importance; but having been long desired to see me alone, he
+would not neglect this Occasion, and sent him an Epistolary Excuse in
+these Words:
+
+_My Wife thinks I am with you, but_ Olinda _told me she shall be alone
+to day, and I don't know when I shall meet with so favourable an
+Opportunity; so that you must excuse me; but I'll certainly see you to
+morrow_.
+
+His Wife, being always suspicious of Letters she did not read, went to
+the Post-House after this: They made no scruple to give it her; because
+they knew 'twas one of their Servants had brought it; and when she had
+read it, she went home in all haste, and had her Husband dog'd to my
+Lodgings. When he came there he told me, that the first time he saw me,
+he lik'd my Shape and Mien, and was extreamly taken with my Face, that
+he durst not so much as ask me Pardon whilst he saw me so angry; and
+that since he was acquainted with me, my Humour had charm'd him so, that
+he could be content to leave all the World for me: And then, Laughing,
+ask'd me, If I could live with him, and he would keep me a Coach, and
+let me want nothing I could desire. I rally'd with him till he begun to
+talk more seriously, and then I check'd him for his Insolence; but it
+had no effect upon him; And when he saw that neither Promises nor
+Intreaties could move me, and that Opportunity favour'd him, he resolved
+to try what Violence would do; he had sent our Servant a Mile off for to
+fetch some Fruit, which, he said, was the best about the Country; and we
+were in a back Room near no Body in the House, so that I was in great
+Fear; however I made all the noise and Resistance I could, and was
+happily delivered by his old Lady's coming in: She might easily perceive
+we were both in Confusion, tho' she hardly guess'd the true Cause; and I
+was so good natur'd as not to tell it her. When she rail'd, we bore it
+with a great deal of Patience, and indeed I wonder'd at his Moderation:
+I really thought he would have let her beat me to revenge his Cause; but
+he was not so much a Brute, he hinder'd her, and very civilly led her
+away. The next day I saw him at the Wells, and whilst my Company was
+Raffling, he took the opportunity to talk with me, though I avoided him
+with all the Diligence I could. _Don't frown upon me, Olinda_, says he,
+_you ought to forgive me; Repentance is all that Heaven requires, and I
+never in my Life did an Action that troubled me so much; but if you have
+not good Nature enough to pardon me upon that, I must say something to
+excuse my self: If I believ'd you Virtuous before, it must be by an
+implicit Faith; but the way to be sure was to try it; and now I shall
+always admire that Virtue I could not subdue: Why then should you be
+angry with me any longer than my Fault remains?_ Though I had a little
+Prejudice against him, I thought he spoke with more Eloquence, and a
+better Grace, than ever I heard him before; it may be his Concern
+inspir'd him; but 'twas to little purpose, for I was inexorable. I told
+him, _I did not think him worth my Anger, and should easily forgive him,
+upon Condition he would never see me any more: No_, Madam, said he, _I'd
+rather see you angry, than not see you at all_: But in spight of me, he
+visited us often; but I always entertain'd him with a coldness that did
+not much please him, though no Body else perceiv'd it. We came to Town
+in the beginning of _September_, and he was once at our House, and found
+me alone: He began to talk of a violent Passion he had for me; but I
+stop'd him, and said, _That was not a Discourse fit for me to hear from
+him_. I commanded him to leave me; and told him if he ever came there
+again, I wou'd be deny'd to him. He obey'd me, and I did not see him
+again till _November_. He came in Mourning, and told us he had had the
+misfortune to bury his Wife. He Writ to my Mother to desire her leave
+to make his Addresses to me; which she gave him, and then he appear'd a
+declar'd Lover. I was so us'd to receive him with Anger and Disdain,
+that though I had not the same Reason now, I did not change my Behaviour
+to him; and for four Months my Mother let me take my own way, without
+speaking one word of _Orontes_ to me: Either she design'd to observe
+what I wou'd do of my self, or she did not think it fit to talk of my
+Marrying him so soon after his Wife's Death; but when she saw I slighted
+him so long, she said to me one day, What do you mean Child, to receive
+with equal indifference all the Proposals that are made to you? Do you
+resolve to lead a single Life? I should approve of the choice in one of
+a better Fortune; but you must conform your self to yours, and consider
+that I am not able to maintain you. If you don't hate _Orontes_, I will
+have you Marry him, he has given so great proof of his being a good
+Husband, that you can't fear he will be otherwise to you; he is Handsome
+enough, and very Rich; I believe he loves you, and in fine, I think you
+may be as happy with him as with any Man; therefore, don't be
+obstinately bent against your own good. He came in at the same time, and
+seconded this command of my Mothers with Intreaties and Complaints. I
+had no Aversion for him, and since my Circumstances wou'd oblige me to
+Marry, and that I knew I could never love any Man; I thought it might as
+well be he as any other; so in sometime after I yielded, and the
+Wedding-day was appointed to be the Sixteenth of _May_ last. How do you
+think 'tis possible to avoid it now; but many things happen betwixt the
+Cup and the Lip. You are to know that _Orontes_'s Estate lay near a fine
+Seat of _Cloridon_'s, which he often retir'd to; so that they were
+acquainted, and much together; and that _Orontes_ went to his Country
+House to make some Preparations a Week before the designed Marriage.
+_Cloridon_ told him he was extreamly pleas'd to see him there; for they
+had made a match for Hunting five or six days after with some Friends of
+his, that were wishing for him. I must beg your Pardon my Lord, _says
+he_, that I cannot stay so long; for I have business that will call me
+to _London_ sooner. If it be not of great importance, _return'd he_,
+pray let me prevail with you to stay. 'Tis not to be deferr'd my Lord, I
+am to be Marry'd. Marry'd, cry'd my Lord, prithee what Madness possesses
+thee, so lately freed, to bind thy self again without any necessity for
+it? What Bait next, not another old Rich crabbed Widow, I hope? I have
+made a better Choice now, _answer'd Orontes_: She has Youth and Goodness
+I'm sure; and I have Money enough for us both. You are in the Right,
+_Reply'd Cloridon_; but may I know her Name. You knew her Father my
+Lord, _says he_, and then Sir _Martin Marrall_ told him whose Daughter I
+was. And are you engag'd to her, _Cloridon_ ask'd? She has promis'd to
+marry me the 16th of this Month, _said Orontes_, and therefore my Lord,
+I hope you wont take it ill if I leave you upon so weighty an Affair.
+_Cloridon_ was not in humour of making many Compliments; but he ask'd
+abundance of Questions, of the beginning and progress of his Love, and
+how I had us'd him all the time; but he could not much boast of my
+Favour, which pleas'd _Cloridon_, and encourag'd him to endeavour to
+break off the Match. He told _Orontes_ he should be oblig'd to go to
+_London_ that day, but he would come back again before he went away; so
+he left him, and immediately took his Journey; and as soon as he
+arriv'd, came to our Lodgings, where he found my Mother and I together.
+Judge of my surprize at this Sight, my first Thoughts were of _Orontes_;
+I sigh'd when I compar'd 'em with one another, and had a thousand
+different thoughts which I know not what to make of. _Cloridon_
+Addressing himself to my Mother, _said_, Madam, I am come to beg a
+Favour of you, which I should hardly have the Confidence to ask, if the
+whole satisfaction of my life did not depend upon it. My Mother told
+him, that she could not refuse any thing to one whom she ow'd so much
+to; and that she should think her self happy if she could serve him in a
+thing which he said concern'd him so nearly. He return'd some
+Compliments, and then desir'd her to hear him out with Patience, which
+she promis'd, and he begun, I have a long time had a great Love and
+Respect for your Daughter, and would have given all the World to have
+seen her sometimes; but she refus'd it me; and I bore her Rigour without
+Murmuring, in hopes the time would come when I could tell her I lov'd
+her without offending her Virtue: But I can't live when I have lost that
+hope, and therefore am come to beg you not to marry _Olinda_, as I am
+told you design; and I will make her Fortune greater than what she can
+expect from _Orontes_. How, my Lord, _interrupted my Mother_, what
+strange Proposition is this you make me? Be not angry with me, or fear
+me, _continu'd he_, for the moment you grant what I intreat of you, I
+will leave you, and never desire to see _Olinda_ again, as long as I
+continue in the Condition I am in; But 'twill be a great Happiness for
+me to think, that she may one Day be mine; and to be assur'd she will
+never be any others; and if she be not chang'd, or that I am not much
+mistaken in her, she will not be averse to it. He was in the right, for
+though I was never an Enemy to Marriage, yet I always preferr'd a single
+Life to it; and I found enough of my stifled Flame revive to make my
+Wishes comply with his. When my Mother saw me much inclin'd to it, and
+knowing I had only consented to marry _Orontes_ in compliance of her;
+she began to think of it as a thing might be done, but that she had
+given her Word to _Orontes_, and could not go back from it. But
+_Cloridon_ told her, she need not be in any Fault in that, if she wou'd
+but make use of the occasion would be given her to break off with
+_Orontes_ without Examining further. She made some other Objections, but
+he Answer'd them all, and upon his Knees Swore, that if I Married
+_Orontes_, neither he nor my Husband would survive it: So partly out of
+fear of what might happen, and partly out of inclination to oblige him,
+and willingness to please me, my Mother consented. _Cloridon_ begg'd
+leave to talk with me, before he took his last leave, which he did, and
+made me some little tender Reproaches, for having resolv'd to Marry;
+which I answer'd with a more reserv'd Kindness than I had sometimes
+done; and that was the Subject of many Letters he sent me since; for he
+often writes to me. Two Days before we were to be Marry'd, _Orontes_ was
+to come to Town, which _Cloridon_ knew, and had provided half a dozen
+Soldiers to seize upon him in the King's Name, (for he was suspected for
+an Enemy to the Government.) They did so, and told him they were
+commanded to keep him a close Prisoner in a House hard by, till further
+Order. He would fain have Writ, but they would not let him, for they
+said they had Orders to the contrary. There they kept him a Week, and we
+wonder'd we heard nothing of him, not knowing what methods were us'd to
+hinder us; and to avoid seeing our Friends, who would enquire the
+Reason, we thought it best to retire hither, this being a private Place.
+When _Cloridon_ knew I was out of Town, he went himself to free him, and
+told him things had been misrepresented, and he had been wrong'd; but in
+requital he would procure him any Employment he would name; but he did
+not accept it. When he came to enquire for me, no Body could tell him
+where I was: But a Friend with whom I had left such Orders, told him,
+that I had taken it so ill, that he should slight me so far, as neither
+to come, nor to send to me, in so long time, that whatever he could say
+for himself, I wou'd never forgive him, nor so much as hear him. He was
+no doubt troubled at it, but he was not a Man to take any thing much to
+Heart; and _Cloridon_ knowing he had not dealt very fairly by him, was
+very desirous to oblige him some other way: And indeed he did him a very
+considerable Service not long after, for he was really accus'd privately
+to the King of a Plot, which wou'd have cost him his Life, if _Cloridon_
+had not taken a great deal of pains to free him, more than he could have
+expected in such a ticklish Affair as that; and had like to become
+himself suspected by it: So that I think he has been more his Friend in
+saving his Life, than he was his Enemy in taking his Mistress from him.
+This is, _Cleander_, the true Cause of my Retirement, which is very
+agreeable to me, whilst I hear often from you, and whilst _Cloridon_
+continues to think of me. I have sent you a Copy of Verses which he writ
+to me just after I came hither.
+
+  _Nor cou'd my Rival, when those Charms
+  By thee were destin'd to his Arms,
+  Be half so bless'd as I, to find
+  The lovely Nun for me Confin'd:
+  Nor when of all that Bliss bereav'd,
+  He saw his full-blown hopes deceiv'd,
+  Cou'd be so curst as I to see
+  My self Exil'd from Heav'n in thee.
+  Strange Contradiction in my Fate,
+  At once a blest and wretched State:
+  But who--what Lover wou'd not choose
+  Thus to gain all, tho' all he lose?
+  So Merchants strive their Lives to save,
+  Threaten'd by ev'ry Wind and Wave,
+  And see with joy the long'd for Coast,
+  Tho' all they ventur'd for is lost._
+
+_Cloridon_ has just sent me word that _Orontes_ is dead of the
+Small-Pox; so that I shall come to Town sooner than I design'd. The
+expectation of seeing you pleases me extreamly; for tho' I find a great
+satisfaction in conversing with you by Letters; yet 'tis not so full and
+perfect at this distance, as when I am with you. I can't tell you my
+Thoughts so well, nor know yours; a Question suddenly started, or
+sometimes a Look, will discover more to me than you know of your self;
+and I would know you not as you seem to the World, or what you think of
+your self, but what you are; for though you are more sincere than other
+Men, yet there is no Man but deceives the World in some things, and
+himself in more; and therefore to be a good Man, 'tis absolutely
+necessary to have a true Friend; and since you have made choice of me, I
+can only attone for my want of other Qualifications, by my Fidelity,
+which you may always rely upon. Will not the World, when they see so
+tender, so constant an Affection betwixt us, be convinced of that
+receiv'd Error, that there can be no such intimacy betwixt two of
+different Sexes without the Passion of Love; In us I'm sure they can't
+suspect it; when they see you have so much Love for _Ambrisia_, and me
+so forward to promote its being reciprocal. I wish it may have that
+Effect, that the Women may no longer scruple to bestow their Friendship
+upon a Worthy Man, for fear of misconstructions; both Sexes will find
+their Advantages by it. Yours is more capable to instruct and form our
+Minds; than the wisest of our own; and ours will be more apt to curb
+that Licentiousness, which Men usually encourage one another in: And
+what happiness will it be for us to see our selves the Instruments of
+all the Men's becoming Good, and all the Women Wise? (A more
+extraordinary Reformation than _Luther_'s.) Let our Friendships then be
+so Exemplary, that all may emulate, and wish to live like us; and by
+endeavouring, find that there's a purer and more solid Satisfaction one
+moment with a Friend, than Ages thrown away upon the Gallantries, which
+so take up the Hearts, and steal the Hours of our Youth. Adieu
+_Cleander_, correct the Errors of my Life with a gentle Hand of
+Friendship, and always be as much my Friend as I am yours,
+
+  _OLINDA_.
+
+[Decoration]
+
+
+
+
+[Decoration]
+
+LETTER VIII.
+
+Olinda _to_ Cloridon.
+
+    _In Answer to a Letter which he sent her with the Copy of Verses in
+    the sixth of the foregoing ones._
+
+
+'TIS not an Hour ago since I believ'd I hated you: I thought I could
+have rail'd at you, have call'd you base, seducer of my Honour, Traytor,
+that under a pretence of Love, design'd my Ruin; but Ah! those tender
+Excuses which you sent me, soon discover'd the mistake, and show'd me it
+was only Angry Love, that so Transported me: And now 'tis turn'd to as
+violent a Grief, which wou'd fain ease it self in Complaints: But I am
+so wretched, that even that poor Comfort is deny'd me; for who can I
+complain to, when in lamenting my Misfortune I must expose our Crime:
+For yours my Lord, has involv'd me in the guilt; and all those thoughts
+and Actions, which were innocent before, must be condemn'd as the Causes
+of such ill Effects: For if I had never lov'd you, or if I had never
+own'd it, nor consented to see you, you had not desir'd any thing of me
+that could shock my Virtue: Now, I can't think of 'em without Shame and
+Anger. That Love which shin'd before so Pure and Bright, appears now the
+Blackest thing in Nature; and I hate my self for not hating you; for I
+own (tho' I blush in owning) that I love you still; Nay, I believe that
+I forgive you too; but I must never, never see you more: No, though you
+swear you Repent, and that you would not repeat your Crime, if you were
+certain of success. Would not you believe I should as easily Pardon your
+breach of this Vow, as I did the last, which you made me as solemnly?
+Yes, you would, my Lord, and I should be betray'd to things I never
+thought of yet: For all is solid, convincing Reason that you speak; and
+I should soon believe any thing you would have me. Curse on that fond
+Credulity that first deceiv'd me into a belief, that 'twas no Sin to
+love you. Yet sure it could not be an unpardonable Fault, to value one
+that so infinitely deserves it: To Love, to See, and Talk with one whose
+Conversation is so Charming as yours; and that was all I wish'd. All
+that know you do the same; Why then am I more guilty? Ah! If your Fame
+had been as pure as mine, we had both been Happy and Innocent; so
+innocent, that she, that happy she, who claims all your love as her due,
+(even she, I think, if she had known our Hearts) could not have been
+offended at it: But who is there, the most uninterested, that would not
+now condemn us; Nay, the most Partial could not excuse us; even we
+should blame our selves. Why will you then importune me still to see
+you; ask me no more, what I dare never grant; and believe----but you
+know, 'tis not unkindness makes me Refuse you: You know I must be
+Wretched in your Absence; yet think me easie and satisfied, if it will
+contribute any thing to your quiet; or rather don't think of me at all.
+Let us make our selves as happy as we can; I will endeavour to forget
+you; don't Write to me, if you love me well enough to forbear it: And if
+you can cease to love me, without hating me; for I don't find I have
+force enough to bear so great a misfortune, which is the only one can
+add to the weight of those which have already almost sunk
+
+  _The Poor_
+
+    OLINDA.
+
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+  16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).
+
+  18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10
+      (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).
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+1949-1950
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+       (1706).
+
+
+1964-1965
+
+  110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
+
+  111. Anonymous, _Political Justice_ (1736).
+
+  112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
+
+  113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_ (1698).
+
+  114. _Two Poems Against Pope_: Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to Mr. A.
+       Pope_ (1730), and Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_ (1742).
+
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+  118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).
+
+  119. Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_
+       (1717).
+
+  120. Bernard Mandeville, _Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables_
+       (1704).
+
+
+1966-1967
+
+  123. Edmond Malone, _Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to
+       Mr. Thomas Rowley_ (1782).
+
+  124. Anonymous, _The Female Wits_ (1704).
+
+  125. Anonymous, _The Scribleriad_ (1742). Lord Hervey, _The Difference
+       Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_ (1742).
+
+  126. _Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by
+       Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O._ (1682).
+
+
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+
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+  128. Charles Macklin, _A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers_
+       (1746). _The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy_ (1747).
+
+  129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to _Terence's Comedies_ (1694) and
+       _Plautus's Comedies_ (1694).
+
+  130. Henry More, _Democritus Platonissans_ (1646).
+
+  131. John Evelyn, _The History of Sabatai Sevi, The Suppos'd Messiah of
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+       Loftis.
+
+  135. Sir John Hill, _Hypochondriasis, a Practical Treatise on the Nature
+       and Cure of that Disorder Call'd the Hyp or Hypo_ (1766).
+       Introduction by G. S. Rousseau.
+
+  136. Thomas Sheridan, _Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course of
+       Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759).
+       Introduction by G. P. Mohrman.
+
+  137. Arthur Murphy, _The Englishman From Paris_ (1756). Introduction by
+       Simon Trefman. Previously unpublished manuscript.
+
+  138. [Catherine Trotter], _Olinda's Adventures_ (1718). Introduction by
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+Dearing.
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+  p. viii: "Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal" should be
+           "Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal"
+
+  p. 136: "seem'd not to blelieve" should be
+          "seem'd not to believe"
+
+  p. 143: "LETTER V." should be
+          "LETTER II."
+
+  p. 150: "one wou'd thing" should be
+          "one wou'd think"
+
+  p. 150: "_Ambrisia_ cant hear" should be
+          "_Ambrisia_ can't hear"
+
+  p. 152: "Whilst he he held" should be
+          "Whilst he held"
+
+  p. 152: "I had no apprehensons" should be
+          "I had no apprehensions"
+
+  p. 153: "You Honour me to much my Lord" should be
+          "You Honour me too much my Lord"
+
+  p. 157: "I refus'd, tho' unwillinglly" should be
+          "I refus'd, tho' unwillingly"
+
+  p. 158: "to the tothers Care" should be
+          "to the others' Care"
+
+  p. 160: "for he new my Name." should be
+          "for he knew my Name."
+
+  p. 164: "that that and my Obedience" should be
+          "that and my Obedience"
+
+  p. 176: "in spight of the greatest Rigour" should be
+          "in spite of the greatest Rigour"
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