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IT is not neceffary to fay any thing

by way of Preface, than to defire the Reader, who feels an Inclination to cenfure any of thefe Letters, will recollect the perfons by and to whom, and the Situations in which, they were written.

-I

pray you, in your letters,

When you fhall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,

Nor fet down aught in malice. Then muft you speak
Of one that lov'd, not wifely, but too well:

Of one, not eafily jealous; but, being wrought,
Impatient in th' extreme: of one, whofe hand,
Like the bafe Judean, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe: of one, whose eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.

OTHELLO,

AND

MADNESS, &c.

LETTER I.

To Mifs

Huntingdon, Dec. 4, 1774.

Dear M.

EN thoufand thanks for your billet by my

TEN

corporal Trim yesterday. The fellow feemed happy to have been the bearer of it, because he faw it made me happy. He will be as good a foldier to Cupid as to Mars, I dare fay. And Mars and Cupid are not now to begin their acquaintance, you know. Whichever he ferve, you may command him of courfe, without a compliment; for Venus, I need not B

tell

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