a View to
find Matter for Censure, is in the Condition of a passionate Lover,
who breaks in upon his Mistress, without Fear or Wit, with Intent to
accuse her, and quarrel---He came to her with Pique in his Purpose;
but his _Heart_ is too hard for his _Malice_---and he goes away more
enslav'd, for complaining.

[_del._ 5th]

{_The following delightful Story, so admirably related, will give great
Pleasure to the Reader; and we take the Liberty of inserting it, for
that very Reason._}

[_del._ 8th]

{What a never-to-be satisfied _Length_ has this Subject always the
Power of attracting me into! And yet, before I have done, I must by
your means tell the Author a _Story_, which a Judge not so skilful
in Nature as he is, might be in Danger perhaps of mistaking, for a
trifling and silly one. I expect it shou'd give him the clearest
Conviction, in a Case he is subject to question.}

[_del._ 8th]

{We have a lively little Boy in the Family, about seven Years
old---but, alas for him, poor Child! quite unfriended; and born to
no Prospect. He is the Son of an honest, poor Soldier, by a Wife,
grave, unmeaning, and innocent. Yet the Boy, (see the Power of
connubial _Simplicity_) is so pretty, so genteel, and gay-spirited,
that we have made him, and design'd him, our _own_, ever since he
could totter, and waddle. The wanton Rogue is half Air: and every
Motion he acts by has a Spring, like _Pamela_'s when she threw down
the Card-table. All this Quickness, however, is temper'd by a
good-natur'd Modesty: so that the wildest of his Flights are thought
rather diverting than troublesome. He is an hourly Foundation for
Laughter, from the Top of the House to the Parlours: and, to borrow
an Attribute from the Reverend Mr. _Peters_, (tho' without any Note
of his Musick) _plays a very good_ FIDDLE in the Family. I have told
you the History of this _Tom-tit_ of a Prater, because, ever since
my first reading of PAMELA, he puts in for a Right to be _one_ of
her Hearers; and, having got half her Sayings by heart, talks in no
other Language but hers: and, what really surprises, and has charm'd
me into a _certain_ Fore-taste of her Influence, he is, at once,
become fond of his Book; which (before) he cou'd never be brought to
attend to---that _he may read_ PAMELA, he says, _without stopping_.
The first Discovery we made of this Power over so unripe and unfix'd
an Attention,