great Deal of Chitchat and Courtship, we are last arrived at the
fixing of the last Holy Rite:--But to shew our Author's Inclination for
a Joke (for he must doubtless be a very Merry Man) he makes Honest Sir
_Simon Darnford_ praise her Fingers, and laughing tells her they were
made _to touch any Key_: The fluttering Heart before Marriage is
prettily described, Lady _Davers_'s Passion tho' a little too violent,
and carried to the very highest Extravagance of Nature, affords us
Matter of Diversion, as does her running a Race with _Collbrand_ of
Laughter.----_Pamela_ herself in _p._ 167, tells us, she shan't _sleep a
Wink the first Night_, but concludes with this comfortable Reflection,
_that she supposes all young Maidens are the same_; and therefore very
prudently resolves to undergo it. But in order to encourage her the
Squire desires Good Mrs. _Jewkes_ (who is now her chief Favourite) to
entertain her with some _pleasant_ Stories, _suitable to the Occasion_.
And his desiring to spoil the _pretty Waist of his Pamela_, _p._ 216, so
far from making half the Women in _England_ hurt themselves by
Strait-lacing, that I am of Opinion, most of them assisted by that and
some other foregoing Passages, wou'd rather endeavour to _enlarge_
themselves in that Part, than decrease it. Nor do Mr. _Longman_ or Mrs.
_Jervis_ seem to be of a contrary Opinion to the Squire, but both
facetiously drink a Bumper to the _Hans in Kelder_.

Thus, Sir, thro' a Series of Intrigue interwoven with Amorous Incidents
have we traced the Lovely _Pamela_ from the _Servant Maid_ to the
_Mistress_ of the _Mansion House_, and as I think I have marked out
several Passages, that tend only to _inflame_ without any View at all to
_Instruction_, that the Images they present are so far from being
innocent, they could not be stronger invented, or more naturally
expressed, to _excite Lasciviousness_ in the Minds of the Youth of both
_Sexes_. I shall conclude at present, hoping that in your next Edition
you will either amend them or entirely strike them out; not that I have
pointed all that I think exceptionable, as it would be too long for a
Thing of this Kind, and am of Opinion that there are Faults enough of
different Sorts, which may possibly be the Subject of a Second Epistle:
In the mean time, let me address myself in the most earnest Manner to
those of maturer Years, who may chance to be your Readears, that they
would weigh what _Virtue_ is, and how much thes