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LETTER VIII.
Olinda _to_ Cloridon.
_In Answer to a Letter which he sent her with the Copy of Verses in the sixth of the foregoing ones._
'TIS not an Hour ago since I believ'd I hated you: I thought I couldhave 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 tenderExcuses which you sent me, soon discover'd the mistake, and show'd me itwas only Angry Love, that so Transported me: And now 'tis turn'd to asviolent a Grief, which wou'd fain ease it self in Complaints: But I amso wretched, that even that poor Comfort is deny'd me; for who can Icomplain 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 thoughtsand Actions, which were innocent before, must be condemn'd as the Causesof such ill Effects: For if I had never lov'd you, or if I had neverown'd it, nor consented to see you, you had not desir'd any thing of methat could shock my Virtue: Now, I can't think of 'em without Shame andAnger. That Love which shin'd before so Pure and Bright, appears now theBlackest thing in Nature; and I hate my self for not hating you; for Iown (tho' I blush in owning) that I love you still; Nay, I believe thatI forgive you too; but I must never, never see you more: No, though youswear you Repent, and that you would not repeat your Crime, if you werecertain of success. Would not you believe I should as easily Pardon yourbreach 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 neverthought of yet: For all is solid, convincing Reason that you speak; andI should soon believe any thing you would have me. Curse on that fondCredulity that first deceiv'd me into a belief, that 'twas no Sin tolove you. Yet sure it could not be an unpardonable Fault, to value onethat so infinitely deserves it: To Love, to See, and Talk with one whoseConversation is so Charming as yours; and that was all I wish'd. Allthat know you do the same; Why then am I more guilty? Ah! If your Famehad been as pure as mine, we had both been Happy and Innocent; soinnocent, 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 beenoffended at it: But who is there, the most uninterested, that would notnow condemn us; Nay, the most Partial could not excuse us; even weshould blame our selves. Why will you then importune me still to seeyou; ask me no more, what I dare never grant; and believe----but youknow, 'tis not unkindness makes me Refuse you: You know I must beWretched in your Absence; yet think me easie and satisfied, if it willcontribute 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 forgetyou; don't Write to me, if you love me well enough to forbear it: And ifyou can cease to love me, without hating me; for I don't find I haveforce enough to bear so great a misfortune, which is the only one canadd to the weight of those which have already almost sunk
_The Poor_
OLINDA.
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16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).
18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).
1949-1950
19. Susanna Centlivre, _The Busie Body_ (1709).
20. Lewis Theobald, _Preface to the Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and two _Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
1951-1952
31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard_ (1751), and _The Eton College Manuscript_.
1952-1953
41. Bernard Mandeville, _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).
1963-1964
104. Thomas D'Urfey, _Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds_ (1706).
1964-1965
110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
111. Anonymous, _Political Justice_ (1736).
112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_ (1698).
114. _Two Poems Against Pope_: Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope_ (1730), and Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_ (1742).
1965-1966
115. Daniel Defoe and others, _Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal_.
116. Charles Macklin, _The Covent Garden Theatre_ (1752).
117. Sir George L'Estrange, _Citt and Bumpkin_ (1680).
118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).
119. Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_ (1717).
120. Bernard Mandeville, _Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables_ (1704).
1966-1967
123. Edmond Malone, _Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Mr. Thomas Rowley_ (1782).
124. Anonymous, _The Female Wits_ (1704).
125. Anonymous, _The Scribleriad_ (1742). Lord Hervey, _The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_ (1742).
126. _Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O._ (1682).
1967-1968
127- 128. Charles Macklin, _A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers_ (1746). _The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy_ (1747).
129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to _Terence's Comedies_ (1694) and _Plautus's Comedies_ (1694).
130. Henry More, _Democritus Platonissans_ (1646).
131. John Evelyn, _The History of Sabatai Sevi, The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews_ (1669).
132. Walter Harte, _An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad_ (1730).
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133. John Courtenay, _A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the Late Samuel Johnson_ (1786). Introduction by Robert E. Kelley.
134. John Downes, _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708). Introduction by John Loftis.
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136. Thomas Sheridan, _Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759). Introduction by G. P. Mohrman.
137. Arthur Murphy, _The Englishman From Paris_ (1756). Introduction by Simon Trefman. Previously unpublished manuscript.
138. [Catherine Trotter], _Olinda's Adventures_ (1718). Introduction by Robert Adams Day.
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Errata List:
p. viii: "Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal" should be "Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal"
p. 136: "seem'd not to blelieve" should be "seem'd not to believe"
p. 143: "LETTER V." should be "LETTER II."
p. 150: "one wou'd thing" should be "one wou'd think"
p. 150: "_Ambrisia_ cant hear" should be "_Ambrisia_ can't hear"
p. 152: "Whilst he he held" should be "Whilst he held"
p. 152: "I had no apprehensons" should be "I had no apprehensions"
p. 153: "You Honour me to much my Lord" should be "You Honour me too much my Lord"
p. 157: "I refus'd, tho' unwillinglly" should be "I refus'd, tho' unwillingly"
p. 158: "to the tothers Care" should be "to the others' Care"
p. 160: "for he new my Name." should be "for he knew my Name."
p. 164: "that that and my Obedience" should be "that and my Obedience"
p. 176: "in spight of the greatest Rigour" should be "in spite of the greatest Rigour"
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