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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Robert Adams Day + +Release Date: August 26, 2011 [EBook #37218] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLINDA'S ADVENTURES: THE AMOURS *** + + + + +Produced by Chris Curnow, Eleni Christofaki, Joseph Cooper +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<div class='tnote'> +<h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> + +<p>This book contains inconsistent punctuation and various misspellings +which have been retained as they appear in the original. +An <a href="#Errata_List">Errata List</a> with unresolved printer errors can be found at the end of the book. +In the text, printer errors are indicated with red dotted underlining; hover the mouse over the underlined text to see a Transcriber's Note. +The illustration at page 136 was placed at the end of the +section so as not to disrupt the text. +</p></div> +<div class="img"> +<img src="images/front_cover.jpg" width="50%" height="90%" alt="cover" title="cover" /> +</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%"> </p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<p class="center">(1718)</p> + +<hr class="full" /> +<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%"> </p> +<p class="center"><i>Introduction by</i> +ROBERT ADAMS DAY</p> +<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%"> </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 /> +<br /></p> +<p class="center">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY +<br /></p> +<p class="center">Edna C. Davis, <i>William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</i><br /> +<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—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—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—literary, social, and economic—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—), 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—'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%"> </p> + +<h2>By <i>Mrs.</i> TROTTER.</h2> +<p class="bb" style="margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%"> </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>&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 —— 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="'T" title="'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?——, +<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" /> +<div class="img"> +<img src="images/decoration_letter_six.png" width="100%" height="10%" alt="decoration" title="decoration" /> + +</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 —— 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—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——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> + +<div class="img"> +<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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"><b>1949-1950</b></td></tr> +<tr><td> </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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"><b>1951-1952</b></td></tr> +<tr><td> </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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"> +<b>1952-1953</b></td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr> +<td> +41.</td> +<td> Bernard Mandeville, <i>A Letter to Dion</i> (1732).</td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"> +<b>1963-1964</b></td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"> +<b>1964-1965</b></td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"> +<b>1965-1966</b></td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </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> </td></tr> +<tr class="center"> +<td colspan="2"> +<b>1966-1967</b></td> +</tr> +<tr><td> </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. 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