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Inclofed is a fong, which came into my hands by an accident fince we parted. Neither the words nor the mufic, I take it, will difpleafe you.

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When your beauty appears

In its graces and airs,

Adieu.

All bright as an angel new dropp'd from the sky; At distance I gaze, and am awed by my fears, So ftrangely you dazzle my eye!

. But when, without art,

Your kind thoughts you impart,

When love runs in blushes thro' every vein;

When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in.

your heart,

Then I know your'e a woman again.

"There's a paffion and pride

"In your fex," she replied,

"And thus might I gratify both, I would do;
"As an angel appear to each lover beside,
"But ftill be a woman to you."

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LETTER XX.

To the Same.

Cannon Coffee-house, Charing-Crofs, 17 March, 76.

No further than this can I get from you, before I affure you that every word I faid just now came from the bottom of my heart. I never fhall be happy, never shall be in my fenfes, till you confent to marry me. And notwithstanding the dear night at Hockerill, and the other which your ingenuity procured me last week in D. street, Ifwear by the blifs of bliffes, I never will: tafte it again till you are my wife.

LETTER

To the Same.

XXI.

Cannon Coffee-houfe, 17 March, 76.

THOUGH you can hardly have read my

laft fcrawl, I must pefter you with another.

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has been your part, from the beginning of the piece, to mine? I was obliged to act a

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part even to you. It was my business not to let you fee how unhappy the artifices, to which I have fubmitted, made me. And that they did embitter even our happiest

moments.

But fate ftands between us. We are doomed to be wretched. And I, every now and then, think fome terrible cataftrophe will come of our connection. "Some dire event," as Storge prophetically fays in Jephtha," hangs o'er our heads;

"Some woeful fong we have to fing "In mifery extreme.-O never, never "Was my foreboding mind diftrefs'd before

"With fuch inceffant pangs!"

Oh, that it were no crime to quit this world like Faldoni and Terefa! and that we might be happy together in fome other world, where gold and filver are unknown!

By

By your hand I could even die with pleafure. I know I could.

"Infuperable reason.” Yes, my H.,

there is, and you force it from me. Yet, better to tell you, than to have you doubt my love; that love which is now my religion. I have hardly any God but you. I almoft offer up my prayers to you, as well as for you.

Know then, if you was to marry me,. you would marry fome hundred pounds. worth of debts! and that you never shall do.

Do you remember a folemn oath you: tock in one of your letters, when I was down at H. ? and how you told me afterwards it must be fo, because you had so solemnly fworn it?

In the fame folemn and dreadful words= I fwear that I never will marry you, happy as it would make me, while I owe a fhilling in the world. Jephtha's vow is past.

What your letter fays about my poor children made me weep; but it shall not make me change my refolution.

It

It is a further reason why I fhould not.-"If I do not marry you, I do not love you!" Gracious powers of love! Does my H. fay fo? my not marrying you is the strongest proof I can give you of my love. And Heaven, you know, has heard my vow. Do you respect it, and never tempt me to break it-for not even you will ever fucceed.-Till I have fome better portion than debts, I never will be your's.

Then what is to be done? you afk. Why, I'll tell you, H. Your determination to drop all particular intercourse till marriage has made us one, flatters me more than I can tell you, because it fhews me your opinion of me in the strongest light; it almoft reftores me to my own good opinion. The copy of verfes you brought me on that fubject, is fuperior to any thing I ever read. They fhall be thy M.'s morning prayer, and her evening fong. While you are in Ireland

Yes, my love, in Ireland. Be ruled by

me.

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