armer's own prattling Idea stuck so close to the Heart of
her Master, as the Incidents of her Story to the Thoughts of a
Reader.---The Author transports, and transforms, with a Power more
extensive than _Horace_ requires, in his POET!---

Mr. _B----_, and the Turns of his Passions---and the Softness, yet
Strength, of their amiable Object---after having given us the most
masterly Image of Nature, that ever was painted! take Possession of,
and _dwell in_, the Memory.

And there, too, broods the kind and the credulous Parson WILLIAMS's
_Dove_, (without _serpentine_ Mixture) hatching _Pity_ and
_Affection_, [4th, change 8.] {for an Honesty so sincere, and so
silly!}

There too, take their Places All the _lower_ Supports of this
beautiful Fabrick.---

I am sometimes transform'd into plain Goodman ANDREWS, and sometimes
the good Woman, his Wife.

As for old Mr. LONGMAN, and JONATHAN, the Butler, they are sure of
me both, in their Turns.

Now and-then, I am COLBRAND the _Swiss_: but, as _broad_ as _I
stride_, in that Character, I can never escape Mrs. JEWKES: who
often keeps me awake in the Night---

Till the Ghost of Lady DAVERS, drawing open the Curtains, scares the
_Scarer_, of me, and of PAMELA!---

And, then, I take Shelter with poor penitent JOHN, and the rest of
the _Men_ and the _Maids_, of all whom I may say, with compassionate
_Marcia_,

--------_The Youths DIVIDE their Reader._

[5th & 8th, change 9.]

{_And this fine Writer adds:_}

I am glad I made War, in my last, upon the Notion of altering the
Style: for, having read it twice over since then, (and to Audiences,
where the _Tears_ were applausively eloquent) I could hardly, here
and there, find a Place, where one Word _can_ be chang'd for a
better. There are some indeed, where 'twere _possible_ to leave out,
a few, without making a Breach in the Building. But, in short, the
Author has put so bewitching a Mixture together, of the _Rais'd_
with the _Natural_, and the _Soft_ with the _Strong_ and the
_Eloquent_---thatnever Sentiments were finer, and fuller of Life!
never any were utter'd so sweetly!---Even in what relates to the
pious and frequent Addresses to God, I now retract (on these two
last Revisals) the Consent I half gave, on a _former_, to the
anonymous Writer's Proposal, who advis'd the Author to _shorten_
those Beauties.----Whoever considers his _Pamela_ with