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  Speaker 1: An Apology for the Life of Mistress Shamela Andrews by
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  Speaker 1: Connie Keeber. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Frontispiece, An Apology for the
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  Speaker 1: Life of Mistress Shamela Andrews, in which the many notorious
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  Speaker 1: falsehoods and misrepresentations of a book called Pamela are exposed
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  Speaker 1: and refuted, and all the matchless arts of that young
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  Speaker 1: politician set in a true and just light, together with
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  Speaker 1: a full account of all that passed between her and
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  Speaker 1: Parson Arthur Williams, whose character is represented in a manner
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  Speaker 1: something different from that which he bears in Pamela, the
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  Speaker 1: whole being exact copies of authentic papers delivered to the
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  Speaker 1: editor necessary to be had in all families, by mister
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  Speaker 1: Connie Keeber, London, Printed for A Dodd at the Peacock
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  Speaker 1: without Temple Bar seventeen forty one.
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  Speaker 2: To Miss Fanny et cetera, Madam. It will be naturally
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  Speaker 2: expected that when I write the Life of Shamela, I
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  Speaker 2: should dedicate it to some young lady whose wit and
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  Speaker 2: beauty might be the proper subject of a comparison with
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  Speaker 2: the heroine of my peace. This, those who see I
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  Speaker 2: have done it in prefixing your name to my work,
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  Speaker 2: will much more confirmedly expect me to do. And indeed
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  Speaker 2: your character would enable me to run some length into
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  Speaker 2: a parallel. Though you nor any one else are at
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  Speaker 2: all like the matchless Shamela. You see, Madam, I have
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  Speaker 2: some value for your good nature when in a dedication
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  Speaker 2: which is properly a panegyric, I speak against not for you,
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  Speaker 2: but I remember it is a life which I am
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  Speaker 2: presenting you. And why should I expose my veracity to
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  Speaker 2: any hazard in the front of the work, considering what
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  Speaker 2: I have done in the body. Indeed, I wish it
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  Speaker 2: was possible to write a dedication and get anything by
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  Speaker 2: it without one word of flattery. But since it is not,
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  Speaker 2: come on, and I hope to show my delicacy at
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  Speaker 2: least in the compliments I intend to pay you. First, then, Madam,
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  Speaker 2: I must tell the world that you have tickled up
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  Speaker 2: and brightened many strokes in this work by your pencil. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: you have intimately conversed with me, one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: wits and scholars of my age. Thirdly, you keep very
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  Speaker 2: good hours, and frequently spend an useful day before others
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  Speaker 2: begin to enjoy it. This I will take my oath on,
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  Speaker 2: for I am admitted to your presence in a morning
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  Speaker 2: before other people's servants are up. When I have constantly
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  Speaker 2: found you reading in good books, and if ever I
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  Speaker 2: have drawn you upon me, I have always felt you
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  Speaker 2: very heavy. Fourthly, you have a virtue which enables you
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  Speaker 2: to rise early and study hard, and that is forbearing
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  Speaker 2: to overeat yourself. And this in spite of all the
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  Speaker 2: luscious temptations of puddings and custards, exciting the brute, as
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  Speaker 2: doctor Woodward calls it, to rebel. This is a virtue
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  Speaker 2: which I can greatly admire, though I much question whether
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  Speaker 2: I could imitate it. Fifthly, a circumstance greatly to your honor,
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  Speaker 2: that by means of your extraordinary merits and beauty, you
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  Speaker 2: was carried into the ball room at the Bath by
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  Speaker 2: the discerning mister Nash, before the age that other young
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  Speaker 2: ladies generally arrive at that honor, And while your Mamma
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  Speaker 2: herself existed in her perfect bloom here, you was observed
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  Speaker 2: in dancing to balance your body exactly and to weigh
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  Speaker 2: every motion with the exact and equal measure of time
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  Speaker 2: and tune. And though you sometimes made a false step
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  Speaker 2: by leaning too much to one side, yet everybody said
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  Speaker 2: you would one time or other dance perfectly, well and uprightly. Sixthly,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot forbear mentioning those pretty little sonnets and sprightly compositions, which,
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  Speaker 2: though they came from you with so much ease, might
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  Speaker 2: be mentioned to the praise of a great or grave character.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Madam, I have done with you. It only
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  Speaker 2: remains to pay my acknowledgments to an author whose style
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  Speaker 2: I have exactly followed in this life. It being the
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  Speaker 2: properest for biography, the reader, I believe easily guesses I
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  Speaker 2: mean Euclid's elements. It was Euclid who taught me to write.
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  Speaker 2: It is you, Madam, who pay me for writing. Therefore
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  Speaker 2: I am to both a most obedient and obliged, humble servant.
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  Speaker 2: Connie Keeber.
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  Speaker 1: Letters to the editor, the editor to himself. Dear sir, however,
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  Speaker 1: you came by the excellent Shamela out with it without
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  Speaker 1: fear or favor dedication, and all believe me, it will
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  Speaker 1: go through many editions be translated into all languages, read
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  Speaker 1: in all nations and ages, and to say a bold word,
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  Speaker 1: it will do more good than the clerky have done
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  Speaker 1: harm in the world. I am, sir, sincerely your well wisher, yourself.
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  Speaker 3: John pough Esquire to the editor, Sir, I have read
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  Speaker 3: your Shamela through and through, and a most inimitable performance.
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  Speaker 3: It is who is he and what is he that
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  Speaker 3: could write so excellent a book? He must be doubtless
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  Speaker 3: most agreeable to the age and to his honor himself,
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  Speaker 3: for he is able to draw everything to perfection but virtue.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever the author be, he hath one of the worst
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  Speaker 3: and most fashionable hearts in the world. And I would
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  Speaker 3: recommend to him, in his next performance to undertake the
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  Speaker 3: life of his honor, For he who drew the character
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  Speaker 3: of Parson Williams is equal to the task. Nay, he
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  Speaker 3: seems to have little more to do than to pull
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  Speaker 3: off the parson's gown, and that which makes him so
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  Speaker 3: agreeable to Shamela and the cap will fit. I am sir,
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  Speaker 3: your humble servant, John Puff.
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  Speaker 1: Note Reader. Several other commendatory letters and copies of verses
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  Speaker 1: will be prepared against the next edition. An Apology for
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  Speaker 1: the life of Missus Shama Andrews.
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  Speaker 4: Parson tickletext to Parson Oliver, Reverend Sir, herewith I transmit
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  Speaker 4: you a copy of Sweet Dear Pretty Pamela, a little
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  Speaker 4: book which this winter hath produced, stuff which I make
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  Speaker 4: no doubt you have already heard mentioned from some of
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  Speaker 4: your neighboring clergy. For we have made it our common
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  Speaker 4: business here not only to cry it up, but to
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  Speaker 4: preach it up. Likewise, the pulpit as well as the
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  Speaker 4: coffee house hath resounded with its praise, and it is
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  Speaker 4: expected shortly that his LP will recommend it in a
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  Speaker 4: letter to our whole body. And this example, I am confident,
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  Speaker 4: will be imitated by all our cloth in the country.
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  Speaker 4: For besides speaking well of a brother in the character
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  Speaker 4: of the Reverend mister Wills, the useful and truly religious
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  Speaker 4: doctrine of grace is everywhere inculcated. This book is the
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  Speaker 4: soul of religion, good breeding, discretion, good nature, wit, fancy,
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  Speaker 4: fine thought, and morality. There is an ease, a natural air,
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  Speaker 4: a dignified simplicity, and measured fullness in it, that resembling
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  Speaker 4: life out glows it. The author hath reconciled the pleasing
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  Speaker 4: to the proper. The thought is everywhere exactly clothed by
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  Speaker 4: the expression, and becomes its dress as roundly and as
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  Speaker 4: close as Pamela her country habit, or as she doth
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  Speaker 4: her no habit. When modest beauty seeks to hide itself
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  Speaker 4: by casting off the pride of ornament, and displays itself
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  Speaker 4: without any covering, which it frequently doth in this admirable work,
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  Speaker 4: and presents images to the reader which the coldest sell
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  Speaker 4: it cannot read without emotion. For my part, and I
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  Speaker 4: believe I may say the same of all the clergy
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  Speaker 4: of my acquaintance, I have done nothing but read it
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  Speaker 4: to the others, and hear others again read it to me,
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  Speaker 4: ever since it came into my hands. And I find
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  Speaker 4: I am like to do nothing else, for I know
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  Speaker 4: not how long yet to come, Because if I lay
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  Speaker 4: the book down, it comes after me. When it has
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  Speaker 4: dwelt all day long upon the ear, it takes possession
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  Speaker 4: all night of the fancy. It hath witchcraft in every
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  Speaker 4: page of it. Oh, I feel an emotion even while
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  Speaker 4: I am relating this, methinks I see Pamela at this instant,
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  Speaker 4: with all the pride of ornament, cast off little book charm, Pamela,
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  Speaker 4: Get THEE gone face the world in which thou wilt
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  Speaker 4: find nothing like thyself. Happy would it be for mankind
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  Speaker 4: if all other books were burnt, that we might do
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  Speaker 4: nothing but read THEE all day and dream of THEE
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  Speaker 4: all night? Thou alone art sufficient to teach us as
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  Speaker 4: much morality as we want? Dost thou not teach us
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  Speaker 4: to pray, to sing psalms, and to honor the clergy?
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  Speaker 4: Are not these the whole duty of man? Forgive me, o,
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  Speaker 4: author of Pamela, mentioning the name of a book so
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  Speaker 4: unequal to thine. But now I think of it? Who
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  Speaker 4: is the author? Where is he? What is he that
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  Speaker 4: hath hitherto been able to hide such an encircling, all
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  Speaker 4: mastering spirit. He possesses every quality that art could have
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  Speaker 4: charmed by, yet hath lent it to and concealed it
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  Speaker 4: in nature. The comprehensiveness of his imagination must be truly prodigious.
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  Speaker 4: It has stretched out this diminutive, mere grain of mustard seed,
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  Speaker 4: a poor girl's life, et cetera, into a resemblance of
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  Speaker 4: that heaven which the best of good books has compared
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  Speaker 4: it to to be short. This book will live to
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  Speaker 4: the age of the patriarchs, and like them will carry
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  Speaker 4: on the good work many hundreds of years, hence among
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  Speaker 4: our posterity, who will not hesitate their esteem with restraint.
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  Speaker 4: If the Romans granted exemptions to men who begat a
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  Speaker 4: few children for the republic, what distinction if policy and
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  Speaker 4: we should ever be reconciled, should we find to reward
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  Speaker 4: this father of millions, which are to owe formation to
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  Speaker 4: the future effect of his influence. Aye feel another emotion.
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  Speaker 4: As soon as you have read this yourself five or
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  Speaker 4: six times over, which may possibly happen within a week,
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  Speaker 4: I desire you would give it to my little god
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  Speaker 4: daughter as a present from me, this being the only
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  Speaker 4: education we intend henceforth to give our daughters. And pray,
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  Speaker 4: let your servant maids read it over or read it
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  Speaker 4: to them. Both yourself and the neighboring clergy will supply
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  Speaker 4: yourselves for the pulpit from the booksellers as soon as
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  Speaker 4: the fourth edition is published. I am, sir, your most
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  Speaker 4: humble servant, Thomas tickletext.
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  Speaker 5: Parson Oliver to Parson Tickle text, Reverend Sir, I received
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  Speaker 5: the favor of yours with the enclosed book, and must
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  Speaker 5: really earn myself sorry to see the report I have
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  Speaker 5: heard of an epidemical frenginari in town, confirmed in the
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  Speaker 5: person of my friend. If I had not known your hand,
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  Speaker 5: I should, from the sentiments and style of the letter,
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  Speaker 5: have imagined it to have come from the author of
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  Speaker 5: the famous apology which was sent me last summer. And
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  Speaker 5: on my reading the remarkable paragraph of measured fullness that
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  Speaker 5: resembling life, I'd lose it to a young baronety cried
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  Speaker 5: out colonly simper by God. But I have since observed
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  Speaker 5: that this, as well as many other expressions in your letter,
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  Speaker 5: was borrowed from those remarkable epistles which the author or
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  Speaker 5: the editor hath prefixed the second edition which will send
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  Speaker 5: me of his book. Is it possible that you, or
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  Speaker 5: any of your function can be in earnest or think
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  Speaker 5: the cause of religion or morality can want such slender support?
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  Speaker 5: God forbid they should. As for honor to the clergy,
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  Speaker 5: I am sorry to see them so solicitous about it,
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  Speaker 5: for if worldly honor be meant, it is what their predecessors,
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  Speaker 5: in a pure and primitive age never had or sought. Indeed,
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  Speaker 5: the secure gratification of a good conscience, the approbation of
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  Speaker 5: the wise and good, which never were or will be
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  Speaker 5: the generality of mankind, and the ecstatic pleasure of contemplating
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  Speaker 5: that their ways are acceptable to the great creator of
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  Speaker 5: the universe will always attend those who rarely deserve these blessings.
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  Speaker 5: But for worldly honors they are often the purchase of
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  Speaker 5: force and fraud. We sometimes see them in an eminent degree,
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  Speaker 5: possessed by men who are notorious for luxury, pride, cruelty, treachery,
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  Speaker 5: and a most abandoned prostitution, wretches who are ready to
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  Speaker 5: invent and maintain schemes repugnant to the interest, the liberty
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  Speaker 5: and the happiness of mankind, not to supply the necessities
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  Speaker 5: or even conveniencies, but to pamper their avarice and ambition.
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  Speaker 5: And if this be the road to worldly honors, God forbid,
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  Speaker 5: the clergy should be even suspected of walking in it.
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  Speaker 5: The history of Pamela I was acquainted with long before
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  Speaker 5: I received it from you, from my neighborhood to the
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  Speaker 5: scene of action. Indeed, I was in hopes that young
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  Speaker 5: woman would have contented herself with the good fortune she
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  Speaker 5: hath attained, and rather suffered her little arts to have
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  Speaker 5: been forgotten than have revived their remembrance, and endeavored by
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  Speaker 5: Perverty in misrepresenting facts, to be thought to deserve what
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  Speaker 5: she now enjoys. For though we do not imagine her
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  Speaker 5: the author of the narrative itself, yet we must suppose
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  Speaker 5: the instructions were given by her, as well as a
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  Speaker 5: reward to the composer, who, that is the use of
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  Speaker 5: earnestly require of me. I shall leave you to guess
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  Speaker 5: from that Ciceronian eloquence with which the work abounds, and
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  Speaker 5: that excellent knack of making every character amiable she lays
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  Speaker 5: his hands on. But before I send you some papers
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  Speaker 5: relating to this matter, which will set Pamela and some
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  Speaker 5: others in a very different light than that in which
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  Speaker 5: they appear in the printed book, I must beg leave
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  Speaker 5: to make some few remarks on the book itself and
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  Speaker 5: its tendency, admitting it to be a true relation towards
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  Speaker 5: improving morality or doing any good either to the present
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  Speaker 5: age or posterity, which when I have done I shall
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  Speaker 5: I flatter myself stand excused from delivering it either into
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  Speaker 5: the hands of my daughter or my servant maid. The
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  Speaker 5: instruction which it conveys to servant maids is, I think,
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  Speaker 5: very plainly, this to look out for their masters as
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  Speaker 5: sharp as they can, the consequences of which will be
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  Speaker 5: besides neglect of their business, and the using all manner
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  Speaker 5: of means to come at ornaments of their persons, that
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  Speaker 5: if the master is not a fool, they will be
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  Speaker 5: debauched by him, and if he is a fool, they
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  Speaker 5: were married him, neither of which I apprehend, my good friend,
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  Speaker 5: we desire should be the case of our sons. I
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  Speaker 5: do notwithstanding our author's professions of modesty, which in my
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  Speaker 5: youth I have heard at the beginning of an epilogue,
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  Speaker 5: I cannot agree that my daughter should entertain herself with
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  Speaker 5: some of his pictures, which I do not expect to
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  Speaker 5: be contemplated without emotion, unless by one of my age
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  Speaker 5: and temper, who can see the girl lying her back
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  Speaker 5: with one arm round missus Jewkes, and the other round
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  Speaker 5: the squire naked in bed, with his hand on her breasts,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera, with as much indifference as I read any
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  Speaker 5: other page in the whole novel. But surely this and
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  Speaker 5: some other descriptions will not be put into the hands
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  Speaker 5: of his daughter by any wise man, though I believe
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  Speaker 5: it will be difficult for him to keep them from her,
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  Speaker 5: especially if the clergy in town have cried and preached
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  Speaker 5: it up. As you say, But my friend, the whole
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  Speaker 5: narrative is such a misrepresentation of facts, such a perversion
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  Speaker 5: of truth, as you will, I am persuaded agree. As
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  Speaker 5: soon as you have perused the papers, I now enclose
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  Speaker 5: to you that I hope you, or some other world
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  Speaker 5: despair's person, will communicate these papers to the public, that
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  Speaker 5: this little jade may not impose on the world as
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  Speaker 5: she hath on her master. The true name of this
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  Speaker 5: wench was Schmela, and not Pamela, as she styles herself.
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  Speaker 5: Her father had in his youth the misfortune to appear
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  Speaker 5: in no good light at the Old Bailey. He afterwards
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  Speaker 5: served in the capacity of a drummer in one of
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  Speaker 5: the Scotch regiments in the Dutch service, where being drummed out,
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  Speaker 5: he came over to England and turned informer against several
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  Speaker 5: persons on the Late jin Act, and becoming acquainted with
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  Speaker 5: an hostler at an inn where a Scotch gentlemen's horses stood,
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  Speaker 5: he Hath at last, by his interest, obtained a pretty
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  Speaker 5: snug place in the custom house. Her mother sought oranges
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  Speaker 5: in the playhouse, and whether she was married to her
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  Speaker 5: father or no, I never could learn. After this short introduction.
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  Speaker 5: The rest of her history will appear in the following letters,
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  Speaker 5: which I assure you are authentic.
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  Speaker 6: Letter one Shamela Andrews to Missus Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews
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  Speaker 6: at her lodgings at the Fan and Pepper Box in
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  Speaker 6: Rury Lane. Dear Mama, this comes to acquainted that I
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  Speaker 6: shall set out in a wagon on Monday, desiring you
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  Speaker 6: to commodate me with a lodging as near you as possible,
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  Speaker 6: in Colton's Court, a Wade Street, or somewhere thereabouts. Prayer,
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  Speaker 6: let it be handsome and not about the two stories high.
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  Speaker 6: For Parson Williams Hath promised to visit me when he
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  Speaker 6: comes to town. And I've got a good many fine
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  Speaker 6: cloths of the old putman mistress who died a while ago,
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  Speaker 6: and I believe Missus Jervis will come along with me,
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  Speaker 6: for she says she would like to keep a house
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  Speaker 6: somewhere about the Short's gardens or towards Queen Street, and
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  Speaker 6: if there was convenience for a bannio, she will like
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  Speaker 6: it the better, but that she will settle herself when
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  Speaker 6: she comes to town. Oh, how I longed to be
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  Speaker 6: in the balcony at the old house. So no more
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  Speaker 6: at present, from your affectionate daughter, Shamela. Letter two Shamela
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  Speaker 6: Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Dear, Mamma, Oh, what
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  Speaker 6: news since I read my last the young squire hath
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  Speaker 6: been there, and as sure as the gun, he has
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  Speaker 6: taken a fancy to me, Pamela, says he. For so
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  Speaker 6: I am cold hair. You was a great favorite of
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  Speaker 6: your like mistress. Yes, i'd please yo honea, says I,
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  Speaker 6: and I believe you deserved it, says he. Thank you, honor,
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  Speaker 6: for your good opinion, says I. And then it took
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  Speaker 6: me by the hand, and I pretended to be shy, lord,
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  Speaker 6: says I. Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude, No,
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  Speaker 6: says he, my dear, And then he kissed me till
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  Speaker 6: he took away my breath, and I pretended to be
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  Speaker 6: angry and to get away, and then he kissed me
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  Speaker 6: again and breathed very short and looked very silly, and
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  Speaker 6: by ill luck Missus Jervis came in and had like
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  Speaker 6: to have spoiled sport. How troublesome and such interruption you
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  Speaker 6: shall he now soon, for I shall not come away
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  Speaker 6: at So I rest your affectionate daughter, Shamela.
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  Speaker 7: Dear sham your last letter has put me into a
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  Speaker 7: great hurry of spirits, for you have a very difficult
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  Speaker 7: part to act. I hope you will remember your slip
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  Speaker 7: with Parson Williams and not be guilty of any more
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  Speaker 7: such folly. Truly, a girl who hath once known what
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  Speaker 7: is what is in the highest degree in it excusable
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  Speaker 7: if she respects her digressions. But a hint of this
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  Speaker 7: is sufficient. When Missus Jervis thinks of coming to town,
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  Speaker 7: I believe I can procure her a good house and
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  Speaker 7: fit for the business. So I am your affectionate mother,
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  Speaker 7: Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
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  Speaker 6: Letter fall Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Mary,
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  Speaker 6: come up good, madam. The mother had never looked into
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: the oven for a daughter. If she had not been
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: there herself, I shall never have done. If you upbride
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: me with having had a small one by Arthur Williams.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: When you yourself, but I say no more, Oh what
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: fine times when the kettle calls the part, Let me
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: do what I will. I say my prayers as often
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  Speaker 6: as another, and I read in good books as often
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  Speaker 6: as I have leisure, And Cossen william says that will
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  Speaker 6: my commands? So no more? But I rest your afflicted daughter, Shamela.
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  Speaker 7: Dear child, Why will you give way to your passion?
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: How could you imagine I should be such a simpleton
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: as to upbraid thee with being thy mother's own daughter.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: When I advised you not to be guilty of folly,
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: I meant no more than that you should take care
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: to be well paid beforehand, and not trust to promises,
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: which a man seldom keeps after he hath had his
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: wicked will. And seeing you have had a rich fool
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: to deal with, your not making a good market will
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: be the more inexcusable. Indeed, with such gentlemen as Parson Williams,
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: there is more to be said, for they have nothing
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: to give, and are commonly otherwise the best sort of men.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: I am glad to hear you read good books pray continue,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: So to do I have enclosed you one of mister
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Whitefield's sermons and also the dealings with him, and am
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: your affectionate mother, Henrietta Maria et cetera.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Letters six Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Oh, Madam,
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: I have strange things to tell you. As I was
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: reading in that charming book about the dealings, in comes
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: my master. To be sure is a precious one, Pamela,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: says he. What book is that I warrant you Rochester's poems?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: No forsooth, says I, as pertly as I could. But
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: how now, saucy chops, bold face, says he. Mighty pretty words,
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: says I. Pert again, Yes, says he. You are a
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: duty impudent, stinking, cursed, confounded jade. And I have a
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: great mine to kick your ee you kiss, says I.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: A gad says he, And so I will with that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: He caught me in his arms and kissed me till
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I nid my face all over fire. Now, this, sir,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: purely a note to put upon the fool for anger. Oh,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: what precious fools men are. And so I flung from
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: him in a mighty right, and pretended as how I
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: would go out at the door. But then I came
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: to the end of the room. I stood still, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: my master cried out, hussy, slut, saucebox, bald face, come hither, Yes,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: to be sure, says I. Why don't you come, says he?
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Or should I come? False? Says I. If you don't
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: come to me, I'll come to you, says he. I
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: shan't come to you, I assure you, says I, upon
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: which he ran up, caught me in his arms, and
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: flung me upon a chair, and began to offer to
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: touch my under petticoat. Sir, says I, you had better
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: not offer to be rude. Well, says he. No more
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: I want then, and why he went out of the room.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: I was so mad to be sure, I could have cried, Oh,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: what a prodigious vexation it is to a woman to
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: be made a fool of missus Jervis, who had been
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: without hearkening, now kind to me. She burst into a
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: violent laugh the moment she came in. Well, says she,
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: as soon as she could speak. I have reason to
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: bless myself that I am an old woman, Ah child,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: If you had known the jolly blights of my age,
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: you would not have been left in the lurch in
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: this manner. Daar Missus Jervis says, I don't laugh at one,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: and to be sure, I was a little angry with her. Come,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: says she, my dear honeysuckle, I have one game to
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: play for you. He shall see you in bed, He
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: shall my little rose bud. He shall see those pretty
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: little white round panting and offered to pull off my handkerchief. Farm.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Missus Jervis says, I you might me blush, and upon
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: my fackings, I believe she did. She went on, thus,
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: I know the Squire likes you. And notwithstanding the awkwardness
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: of this proceeding, I am convinced hath some hot blood
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: in his veins, which will not let him rest till
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: he hath communicated some of his warmth to day, my
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: little angel. I heard him last night at our door,
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: trying if it was open now to night. I will
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: take care it shall be so. I warrant that he
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: makes the second trial, which if he does, he shall
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: find us ready to receive him. I will at first
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: counterfeit sleep and ask for a swoon, so that you
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: will have your naked in his possession. And then if
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: you are disappointed, a plague of all, young squire, says I.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: And so missus Jervis says I, you would have me
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: yield myself to him? Would you? You would have me
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: be a sake in time? A fool for nothing? Thank
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: you for that, Missus Jervis, for nothin Mary forbid, says she.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: You know he hath large sums of money, besides abundance
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: of fine things. And do you think when you have
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: inflamed him by giving his hand a liberty with that
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: charming person, and that you know whom I easily think
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: he up tigns against your will. He will not give
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: anything to come at all. This will not do. Missus
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Jervis answered, I. I have heard my Mamma say, And
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: so you know, Madam, I have that in her youth
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: fellows have often taken away in the morning. Would that
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: guy of over night? No, Missus Jervis, nothing under a
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: regular tyking into keeping a settled settlement for me and
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: all my heirs, all my whole lifetime, shall do the
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: business or else cross legged is the word faith would shame.
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  Speaker 6: And then I snapped my fingers Thursday night, twelve o'clock.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Missus Jervis and I are just in bed and the
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: door unlocked. If my master should come, oh it's Bob's.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: I hear him just coming in at the door. You'll see,
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: I write in the present tense, as Parson william says, well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: he is in bed between us. We're both shamming asleep.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: He steals his hand into my bosom, which are as
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: if in my sleep, prayers close to me with mine,
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: and then pretend you're awake. I no sooner, say him,
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: but I scream out to missus Jervis. She finds likewise,
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: but just to come to yourself. We both begin. She
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: to be cold, and I to be scratched very liberally,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: after having made a pretty free use of my fingers,
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: without any great regard to the parts I attacked. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: can't feat a swoon. Missus Jervis then cries out, oh, sir,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: what have you done? You haven't mortherfreate poor Pamela. She
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: is gone, she is gone. Oh what a difficulty it
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: is to keep one's countenance when the violent laugh desires
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: to burst forth. The poor Bobby frightened out of his wits,
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: jumped out of bed, and in his shirt sat down
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: by my bedside, pale and trembling for the moon shone,
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: and I kept my eyes wide open and pretended to
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: fix him in my head. Missus Jervis supplied lavender water
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: and hot shorn, and this for a full half hour. When,
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: thinking I had carried it on long enough, and being
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: likewise unable to continue to sport any longer, I began
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: by degrees to come to myself. The squire, who had
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: sat all this while speechless, and was almost really in
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: that condition which I feigned. The moment he saw me
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: give symptoms of recovering my senses, fell down on his knees,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: and oh, Pamela cried, he can you forgive me my
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: injured mind? By heaven, I know not whether you are
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: a man or a woman, unless by your swelling breasts,
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: will you promise to forgive me? I forgive you, didn't you?
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  Speaker 4: Says I?
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: And donon you, says he? If you come to that,
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: I wish I had never seen your bold face, saucy sow,
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: and so went out of the room. Oh what a
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: silly fellow is a bashful young lover. He was no
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: sooner out of hearing as we thought than we both
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: burst into a violent laugh. Well, says missus Jervis, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: never saw anything better acci than your part, but I
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: wish you may not have discouraged him from any future attempt,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: especially since his passions are so cool that you could
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: prevent his hands from going further than your bottom hang him.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Answered I, he is not quite so cold as that,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I assure you. Our hands on either side were idle
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: in the scuffle, nor have left us any doubts for
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: each other. To that matter. Friday morning, my master said
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: for missus Jervis as soon as he was up, and
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: bid her give an account of the plight and linen
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: in her care, and told her he was resolved that
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: both she and the little gipsy I'll assure him, should
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: set out together. Missus Jervis made him as saucy answer,
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: which any servant of spirit you know, would, though it
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: should be once ruined, and Kim immediately in tears to me,
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: crying she had lost her place on my account, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: that she should be forced to take to her house
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: as I mentioned before, and that she hoped I would
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: at least might call all the immense in my power
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: for her lots on my account and come to her
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: house whenever I was sent for never fair, says I,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: I'll warrant we are not so near being turned away
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: as you imagine, and I could. Now it comes into
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: my head. I have a fetch for him, and you
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: shall assist me in it. But it being our light,
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: and my letter pretty long, no more at present, from
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: your dutiful daughter, Chamela.
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  Speaker 8: Missus Lacrosse Jervis to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Madame Micham,
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: being set out in a hurry for my master's house
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: in Lincolnshire, desired me to acquaint you with a successful strategem,
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: which was addressed herself in a plain neatness of a
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: farmer's daughter. For she before all the clothes of my mistress,
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: and to be introduced by me, a stranger to her master,
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: to say the truth, she became addressed extremely And if
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: I was to keep the house a thousand years, I
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: would never desire pretty Wench in it. As soon as
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: my master saw her, he immediately threw his arms round
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: her neck and smiled at her, had kisses, for indeed
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: he had but very little to say from himself to
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: a woman. He saw that Pamela was an ugly slot.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: Pardon though, Madame, the causes of expression compared to such
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: divine excellence. He added, he would turn Pamela away immediately
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: and take this new girl, whom he thought to be
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: one of his geners daughters, in her room. Mischam smiled
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: out these words answer that your humble servant had she perceiving,
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: looked very earnestly to her daughter and discovered cheat how
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: Pamela says he is it you? I thought, sir said Miss,
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: after what had happened, you would have known me in
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: any dress? No has, he says he. But after what
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: had happened, I should know thee out of any dress
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: from all thy sex. He then was what we women
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: call rude London in her presence of others. But it
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: seems it is not the first time, and mister fenni
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: herself with a great strength and spirit. The Squire, who
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: thinks a pure virgin, and who knows nothing of my character,
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: resolved to send her into Lincolnshire on pretense in conveying
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: her home where our old friend Nanny driggx is a housekeeper.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: And when Miss had her small one by Parson Wilams
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: about a year ago, this appeasive news communicated to us
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: by Robin Coachman, who is entrusted by his master to
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: carry in his affair privately. For him, though we hang together,
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: I believe, as well as any family of servants in
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: the nation you all, I believe Madame wondered at a
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: squire who does not want generosity should never have mentioned
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: his settlement. All this while I believe his lips is
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: a memory, but it will not be long. First note doubt,
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: for as I am convinced, the young lady will do
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: nothing on becoming a daughter, nor ever admit him to
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: taste a chance without something short and handsome beforehand. So
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: I am certain the squire will never rest till they
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: have danced Adam and Eve's kissing dance together. Your daughter
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: sat out yesterday morning and told me as soon as
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: she arrived he might depend on hearing from her. Be
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: pleased to make my compliments acceptable to Missus Davis and
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: Missus Sylvester and Missus Jolly and all friends, and permit
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: me the honor Madam, to be with the utmost sincerity,
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: your most obedient, humble servant, Lucretia Jervis. If the squire
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: should continue his displeasure against me, so as to insist
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: in the warning he hath given me. You will see
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: me soon and I will lodge in the same house
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: with you, if you have room till I can provide
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: myself to my liking.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Letter eight Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews to Lucretia Jervis.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: Madam, I received the favor of your letter, and I
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: find you have not forgot your usual politeness, which you
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: learned when you was in keeping with the Lord. I
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: am very much obliged to you for your care of
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: my daughter. AM glad to hear she hath taken such
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: good resolutions, and hope she will have sufficient grace to
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: maintain them. All friends are well, and remember to you
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: you will excuse the shortness of this scroll, for I
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: have sprained my right hand with boxing three new made officers,
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: though to my comfort I beat them all. I rest
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: your friend and servant, Henrietta et cetera.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Letter nine Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Dear Mama,
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: I suppose missus Jervis acquainted you with what parts till
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: I left Bedfordshire. Whence I am after a very pleasant
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: journey arrived in Lincolnshire with your old acquaintance, Missus Jewkes,
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: who formerly helped Parson Williams to me and now designs
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: I see to sell me to my master. Thank her
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: for that she will find two words go to that
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: bargain the diy. After our arrival here, I received the
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: letter from mister Williams, and as you have often decided
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: to see one from him, I have n't closed it
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: to you. It is, I think the finest I ever
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: received from that charming man, and full of a great
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: deal of learning. Oh what a brave thing it is
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: to be a scholar and to be able to talk Latin.
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: Parson Williams to Pamela Andrews, Mistress Pamela, having loved by
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: means of my who yesternight visited the Reverend mister Peters
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: with my commands that you are returned into this county.
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: I purposed to have saluted your fair hands this day
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: towards even but am obleeged to sojourn this night at
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: a neighboring clergyman's, where we are to pierce a vagin
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: barrel of ale in a cup of which I shall
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: not be unmindful to celebrate your hells. I hope you
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: have remembered your promise to bring me a leaden canister
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: of tobacco the saffron cut, for in troth this country
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: at present affords nothing worthy. The replenishing a tube with
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: some I tasted the other day at an ale house
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: gave me the heart burn, though I filled no oftener
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: than five times. I was greatly concerned to learn that
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: your lately he left you nothing, though I cannot say
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: the tidings much surprised me, for I am too intimately
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: acquainted with the family, myself father and grandfather, having been
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: successive incumbents on the same cure, which you know is
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: in their gift. I say I am too well acquainted
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: with them to expect much from their generosity. They are,
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: in verity as worthless a family as any other. Whatever.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: The young gentleman, I am informed, is a perfect reprobate
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: that he hath an ingenium versatile to every species of vice,
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: which indeed no one can much wonder at who animadverts
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: on that want of respect to the clergy, which was
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: observable in him when a child. I remember, when he
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: was at the age of eleven only he met my
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: father without either pulling off his hat or riding out
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: of the way. Indeed, a contempt of the clergy is
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: the fashionable vice of the times. But let such wretches
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: know they cannot hate, detest, and despise us half so
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: much as we do them.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: However, I have.
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: Prevailed on myself to write a civil letter to your master,
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: as there is a probability of his being shortly in
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: a capacity of rendering me a piece of service. My
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: good friend and neighbor, the Reverend mister Squeeze ties, being
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: as I am inform'd by one whom I have employ'd
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: to attend for that purpose, very near his dissolution. You see,
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: sweet Mistress Pamela, the confidence with which I dictate these
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: things to you, who, after those endearments which have pass'd
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: between us, I must in some respects estimate as my wife.
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: For though the omission of the service was a sin,
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: yet as I have told you, it was a venial
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: one of which I have truly repented, as I hope
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: you have, and also that you have continued the wholesome
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: office of reading good books and are improv'd in your somebody,
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: of which I shall have a speedy trial for I
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: purpose to give you a summer next Sunday, and shall
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: spend the evening with you in pleasures which, though not
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: strictly innocent, are however to be purged away by frequent
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: and sincere repentance. I am, sweet Mistress, Pamela, your faithful
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: servant Arthur Williams.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: You find, Mamma, what a charming way he hath a writing,
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: And yet I assure you that is not the most
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: charming thing belonging to him. For though he doth not
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: put any dares and sweets and loves into his letters,
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: yet he says a thousand of them. For he can
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: be as fond of a woman as any man living. Sure,
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: women are great fools when they prefer a laced coat
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: to the clergy, whom it is our duty to honor
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: and respect well. On Sunday, Parson Williams came according to
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: his promise, and an excellent sermon he preached. His text
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: was be not righteous over much, and indeed he handled
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: it in a very fine way. He showed us that
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: the Bible doth not require too much goodness of us,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: and that people very often all things goodness that are
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  Speaker 6: not so that to go to church and to pray
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  Speaker 6: and to sing psalms, and to honor the clergy and
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: to repent is true religion, and tis not doing good
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  Speaker 6: to one another. For that is one of the greatest
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  Speaker 6: sins we can commit when we don't do it for
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: the sake of religion. That those people who talk of
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: virtue and morality are the wickedness of all persons. That
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: is not what we do, but.
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  Speaker 4: What we believe.
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  Speaker 6: That must cyve us and a great many other good things.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I could remember them all. As soon as
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: church was over, he came to the squire's house and
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: drank tea with Missus Jewkes and me, after which Missus
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: Jewkes went out and left us together for an hour
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: and a half. Oh, he is a charming man. After
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: supper he went home, and then Missus Jewkes began to
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: cathochize me about my familiarity with him. I see she
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: wants him herself. Then she proceeded to tell me what
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: an honor my master did me in liking me, and
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: that it was both an inexcusable folly and pride in
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: me to pretend to refuse him any fiver. Pray, Madam says,
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: I consider I am a poor girl, and have nothing
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: but my modesty to trust to. If apart were that,
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: what will become of me? Methinks, says she. You are
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: not so mighty modest when you are with Parson Williams.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: I have observed you gloat at one another in a
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: manner that hath made me blush. I assure you, I
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: shall let the Squire know what sort of man is
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: You may do your will, says I, as long as
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: he has of both of parliament men. The Squire dares
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: do nothing to offend him, and you will only show
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: that you're jealous of him. That's all. How No minx,
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: says she. Minx, no more minx than yourself, says I.
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: With that, she hit me a slap on the shoulder,
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: and I flew at her and scratched her face. Occurred
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: till she went crying out of room. So no more
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: at present from your dutiful daughter, Shamela.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Section two of an Apology for the Life of Mistress
• 46:20
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• 46:28
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  Speaker 6: Let's say ten Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews. Oh, Mama,
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: rare news. As soon as I was up this morning,
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: a letter was brought me from the Squire, of which
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: I'll send you a copy.
• 46:49
  Speaker 10: Squire Booby Tupara, dear creature, I hope you are not
• 46:55
  Speaker 10: angry with me for the deceit put upon you in
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: conveying you to Lincolnshire when you imagine yourself going to London. Indeed,
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: my dear parlor, I cannot live without you, and will
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: very shortly come down and convince you that my designs
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: are better than you imagine, and such as you may,
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: with honor comply with. I am, my dear creature, your
• 47:26
  Speaker 10: doughting lover Booby.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Now mamma watch thank you for my own part. I
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: am convinced he will marry me and fith so he shall,
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: oh bless me. I shall be missus Bobby, and be
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: mistress of a great stight, and have a dozen coaches
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: and six and a fine house at London and another
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: at Bath, and servants and jewels and plight, and go
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: to place and operas and court, and do what I will,
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: and spend what I will, but poor Parson Williams well,
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: and can't I see person Williams as well as the
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: marriage as before, For I shall never care a farthing
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: for my husband, no hate, and despise him of all things. Well.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: As soon as I read my letter in came missus Jewkes.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: You see, madam, says she. I carry the marks of
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: your passion about me. But I have received order from
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: my master to be civil to you, and I must
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: buy him, for he is the best man in the world,
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: notwithstanding your treatment of him, My treatment of him, Madam
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: says I. Yes, says she. Your insensibility to the honor
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: he ut haunts you of making you his mistress. I
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: would have you to know, Madam, I would not be
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: mistress to the greatest king, no, no lord in the universe.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: I value my virtue more than I do anything my
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: Master can give me. And so we talked a full
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: hour and a half about my virtue. And I was
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: afraid at first she had heard something about the bank,
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: but I find she hath not, though she is as
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: jealous and suspicious as old scratch. In the afternoon, asked
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: Stall into the garden to meet mister Williams. I found
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: him at the place of his appointment, and we stayed
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: in a can of arbor till it was quite dark.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: He was very angry when I told him what Missus
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: Jewkes had threatened. Let him refuse me, the living, says he,
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: if he dares, I will vote for the other party,
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: and not only so, but will expose him all over
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: the country. I owe him one thousand, five hundred and
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: one indeed, but I don't care for that. By that
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: time the election is past, I shall be able to
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: plead the statue of lamentations. I could have died with
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: the dare man forever. But when he grew dark, you
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: told me he was to meet the neighboring clergy to
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: finish the barrel of ale they had tapped the other day,
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: and believed they should not part till three or four
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: in the morning. So he left me, and I promised
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: to be patient and go on with my reading in
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: good books. As soon as he was gone, I bethought
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: myself what excuse I should make to Missus Jewkes, and
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: it came into my head to pretend as how I
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: intended to drown myself. So I stripped over one of
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: my petticoats and threw it into the channel, and then
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: I went and hid myself in a coal hole, where
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: I lay all night and comforted myself with repeating over
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: some psalms and other good things which I had got
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: by heart. In the morning, Missus Jewkes and all the
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: servants were frightened out of their wits, thinking I had
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: run away, and up to assing how they should answer
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: it to their master. They searched all the likeliest places
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: they could think of for me, and at last saw
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: my petticoat floating in the pond. Then they got a
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: drag net, imagining I was drowned, and intended to drag
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: me out. But at last more cook coming from some coals,
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: discovered me lying all along in no very good peckle.
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: Bless me. Missus Pemela, says she, what can be the
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: meaning of this? I don't know, says I help me up,
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: and I will go in to breakfast, for indeed I
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: am very hungry. Missus Jewkes came in immediately and was
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: so rejoiced to find me alive that she asked with
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: great good humor, where I had been and how my
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: petticoat came into the pond. I answered, I believed the
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: devil had put it into my head to draw myself.
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: But it was a fib for I never saw the
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: devil in my life, nor I don't believe he hath
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: anything to do with me so much for this matter.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: As soon as I am breakfasted, a coach and six
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: came to the door. And who should be in it
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: but my master. I immediately ran up into my room and
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: stripped and washed and dressed myself as well as I could,
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: and put on my prettiest round haired cap, and pulled
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: down my stays to show as much as I could
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: of my bosom. For person William says that it is
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: the most beautiful part of a woman. And then I
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: practiced over all my ears before the glass, and then
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: I sat down and read a chapter in the whole
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: duty of mine. Then missus Jewkes came to me and
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: told me my master wanted me below, and says she
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: don't behave like a fool. No thinks that to myself.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: I believe I shall find wait enough for my master
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: and you two. So down goes me into the parlor
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: to him. Pamela says, he the moment I came in,
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: you see, I cannot style along from you, which I
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: think is sufficient proof of the violence of my passion. Yes, sir,
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: says I, I see your honor intends to ruin me
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: that nothing but the destruction of my virtue will content you.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: Oh what a charming word that is, rest his soul
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: who first invented it? How can you say that I
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: would ruin you, answered the squire. When you shall not
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: ask anything which I will not grant you. If that
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: be true, says I, Good your honor, Let me go
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: home to my poor but honest parents. That is all
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: I have to ask, And do not ruin a poor
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: maiden who is resolved to carry her virtue to the
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: grave with her. Hussy says he, don't provoke me. Don't
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: provoke me. I say, you are absolutely in my power,
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: and if you won't let me lie with you by
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: fair means, I will by force. Ohls, sir says I.
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: I don't understand your poor words. Very pretty treatment. Indeed,
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: says he to say, I use poor words, hussy, gipsy, hypocrite, saucebox,
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: bold face. Get out of my sight, or I will
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: lend you such a kick in the I don't care
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: to repeat the word, but it meant my hinder part.
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: I was offering to go away, for I was half
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: afraid when he called me back and took me round
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: the neck and kissed me, and then bid me go
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: about my business. I went directly into my room when
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: Missus Jewkes came to me soon afterwards. So madam says she,
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: you have left ma mast below in a farm. Pet Yes,
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: threshed two or three of his men already. It is
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: much pretty that all his servants are to be punished
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: for your impertinence. Hearkey, madam says I don't you have
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: frocked me? For if you don't me, I'm sure I
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: have repented for using such a word. If I am
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: not revenged, how sweet is revenge? Sure the sermon book
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: is in the right in calling it the sweetest mortal
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: the devil has ever dropped into the mouth of a sinner.
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: Missus Jewkes remembered the smart of my nails too well
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: to go farther. And so we sat down and talked
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: about my virtue till dinner time, and then I was
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: sent for to weight o my master. I took care
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: to be often caught looking at him, and then I
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: always turned away my eyes and pretended to be ashamed.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: As soon as the cloth was removed, he put a
• 54:58
  Speaker 6: bumper of champagne into my my hand and bid me drink.
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: Oh Liah, I can't name the health. Parson Williams may
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: Well say, here's a wicked man. Missus Jewkes took a
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: glass and drank to dea money syllable. I don't understand
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: that word, but I believe it is body, and then
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: drank towards his honest, good pleasure. Aye huss he says
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: he you can give me pleasure if you will, Sir
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: says I, I shall be always glad to do what
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: is in my power. And so I pretended not to
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: know what he meant. Then he took me into his lap. Oh, Mamma,
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: I could tell you something if I would, And he
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: kissed me, and I said I won't be slobbered about,
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: so so I won't. And he bade me out of
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: a room for a saucy baggage, and said he had
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: a good mind to spit in my face. Sure, no
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: man ever took such a method to gain a woman's heart.
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: I had not been long in my chain, but before
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: missus Jewkes came to me and told me my master
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: would not see me any more that evening, that is
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: if he can help it. For added she I easily
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: perceive the great ascendance you have over him, and to
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: confess to truth. I don't doubt, but you will shortly
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: be my mistress. What's his iren there, Missus Jewkes, what
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: do you say, doc flatter a poor girl? It is
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: impossible his honor can have any honorable design upon me.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: And so we talked of honorable designs to supper time,
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: and Missus Jewkes and I supped together upon a hot
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: buttered apple pie, and about ten o'clock we went to bed.
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: We had not been a bed half an hour when
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: my master Kim paid a pat into the room in
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: his shirt. As before, I pretended not to hear him,
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: and Missus Jewkes laid hold of one arm, and he
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: pulled down the bedcloths and climbed into bed on the
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: other side, and took my other arm and lighted it
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: under him, and fell a kiss in one of my breasts,
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: as if he would have devoured it. I was then
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: forced to awake and began to struggle with him, Missus Jewkes, crying,
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: why don't you do it? I have one arm secure
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: if you can't deal with the rest. I am sorry
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: for you. He was as rude as possible to me,
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: but I remembered, Mamma, the instructions you gave me to
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: avoid being ravished, and follow them, which soon brought him
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: to terms, and he promised me, on quitting my hold,
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: that he would leave the bed. Oh, pardon, Williams, how
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: little are all the men in the world compared to
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: thee My master was as good as his word, upon
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: which Missus Jewkes said, Oh, sir, I see you know
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: very little of our sect by parting so easily from
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: the blessing when you was so near it. No, Missus
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: Jewkes answered he, I am very glad. No more hath happened.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: I would not have entered Pamela for the world. And
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: to morrow morning perhaps she may hear of something to
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: her advantage. This she may be certain of that I
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: will never take her by force. And then he left
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: the room. But think you now, Missus Panmler, said Missus Jewkes,
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: A not yet persuaded. My master had the honorable designs.
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: I think ye hath given no great proof of them.
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: To night, said I. Your experience, I find is not great,
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: says she. But I am convinced you will shortly be
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: my mistress, and then what will become of poor me?
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: With such sort of discourse? We both fell asleep. Next
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: morning early my master sent for me, and, after kissing me,
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: gave your paper into my hand, which she bid me read.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: I did so, and find it to be a proposal
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: for settling two hundred a year on me, besides several
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: other advantages, offers as presents for money and other things. Well,
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: Pamela said he, what answer do you make me to this? Sir,
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: said I. I value my virtue more than all the world,
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: and I had rather be poorest man's wife than the
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: richest man's whole. You are a simpleton, said he. That
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: may be, and yet I may have as much wit
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: as some fault, cried I, meaning me, I suppose, said he.
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: Every man knows himself best, says I. Hussy says he.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: Get out of the room and let me see your
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: saucy face. No more, for I find I am no
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: more danger than you are, and therefore it shall be
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: my business to avoid you as much as I can,
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: and it shall be mine, thinks I at every turn,
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: to throw myself in your wife. So I went out
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: and as I parted, I heard him sigh and say
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: it was bewitched. Missus Jewkes hath been with me since,
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: and she assures me she is convinced I shall shortly
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: be mistress of the family. And she really behaves to
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: me as if she really thought me so. I am
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: resobbed now to I am at it. I thought once
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: of making a little fortune by my person, and I
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: intend to make a great one by my virtue. So,
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: asking pardon for this long scroll, I am your dutiful daughter, Chamla.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Letter eleven Henrietta Maria Honora Andrew's to Shamela Andrews.
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  Speaker 7: Dear sham I received your last letter with infinite pleasure,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: and am convinced it will be your own fault if
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: you are not married to your master, and I would
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: advise you now to take no less terms. But my
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 7: dear child, I am afraid of one rock, only that
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: Parson Williams. I wish he was out of the way.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: A woman never commits folly, but with such sort of men,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 7: as by many hints in the letters I collect him
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 7: to be. But consider, my dear child, you will hereafter
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 7: have opportunities sufficient to indulge yourself with Parson Williams, or
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 7: any other you like. My advice therefore to you is
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: that you would avoid seeing him any more till the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 7: knot is tied. Remember the first lesson I taught you
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 7: that a married woman injures only her husband, but a
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: single woman herself. I am in hopes of seeing you,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 7: a great lady, your affectionate mother, Henrietta Maria, et cetera.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: The following letter appears to have been written before Chmela
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: received the last from her mother.
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  Speaker 6: Letter twelve Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews, Dear Mamma,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: I little fared when I sent away my last that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: all my hopes would be so soon frustrated. But I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: am certain you will blame fortune and not me to proceed. Then,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: about two hours after I had left the squire, he
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: sent for me into the parlor, Pamela said, he and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: takes me gently by the hand. Will you walk with
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: me in the garden, Yes, sir, says I, and pretended
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: to tremble, but I hope your honor will not be rude. Indeed,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: says he, you have nothing to fear from me, and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: I have something to tell you, which if it doth
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: not play, cannot offend. We walked out together, and he
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: began Thus, Pamela, will you tell me truth? Doth the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: resistance you might to my attempts proceed from virtue only?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: Or have I not some rival in that their bosom
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: or might be more successful? Sir says I, I do
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: assure you I never had a thought of any man
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: in the world, how says he, not of Parson Williams.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: Parson william says I. It's the last man upon earth.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 6: And if I was a duchess and your honor was
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: to make your addresses to me, you would have no
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: reason to be jealous of any rival, especially such a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 6: fellow as Parson Williams. If ever I had a liking,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: I am sure, but I am not worthy of you
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: one way, and no riches should ever brob me the other.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: My dear says he. You're worthy of everything. And suppose
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: I should lay aside all considerations of fortune and disregard
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 6: the censure of the world and marry you, Oh, sir,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 6: says I, I am sure you can have no such thoughts.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: You cannot demean yourself so low upon my soul. I
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: am in earnest says he. Oh, pardon me, sir says I.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: You can't persuade me of this, how mistress, says he,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: in a violent right? Do you give me the lie? Hussy?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: I have a great mind to box your saucyers, but
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: I am resolved I will never put it in your
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: power to front me again. And therefore I desire you
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: to prepare yourself for your journey this instant. You deserve
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: no better vehicle than a cart. However, for once you
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: shall have a chariot, and it shall be ready for
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: you within this half hour. And so he flung from
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: me in a fury. What a foolish thing it is
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: for a woman to dally too long with her lover's desires.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: How many have all their being all maids to their
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: holding out too long? Missus Jewkes came to me presently
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: and told me I must make ready with all the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: expedition imaginable, for that my master had ordered a check,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: and that if I was not prepared to go in it,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: I should be turned out of doors and left to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: found my way home on foot. They startled me a little,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: yet I resolved, whether in the right or wrong, not
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: to submit nor ask pardon for that you know, Mamma,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: you never could yourself bring me to from my childhood. Besides,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: I thought he would be no more able to master
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: his passion for me now than he had been hitherto.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: And if he sent two horses awaye with me, I
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 6: concluded he would send four to fetch me back. So
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: truly I resolved to bracele it out and with all
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: the spirit I could master up. I told Missus Schewkes.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: I was vastly pleased with the news she brought me.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: That no one ever went more readily than I should
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: from a place where my virtue had been in continual danger.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: That as for my master, he might easily get those
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: who were fit for his purpose, But for my part,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: I preferred my virtue to all rakes whatever, And for
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: his promises and his office to me, I don't value
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: them a fig, not a fig, Missus Jewkes. And then,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: as snap my fingers, Missus.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 11: Jewkes went in with me and helped me to pack
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 11: up my little owl, which is soon done, being no
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: more than two day caps, two night caps, five shifts,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: one sham, a hoop, a quifted petticoat, two flannel petticoats,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 11: two pair of stockings, one odd one, a.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: Pair of laced shoes, a short flowered apron, a lace neck, handkerchief,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: one clog, and almost another, and some few books as
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: a full answer to a plain and true account, and
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: say the whole duty of man, with only the duties
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 6: to one's neighbor. Torn out the third volume of the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: Atalantis Venus in the Cloister or the Nun in her Smock,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: God's Dealings with mister Whitefield, authors and Eurydice, some sermon books,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: and two or three plays were their titles, and part
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: of the first act torn off. So as soon as
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: we had put all this into a bundle, the chariot
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: was ready, and I took leave of all the servants,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: and particularly Missus Jukes, who pretended, I believe to be
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: more sorry to part with me than she was, and
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: then crying out with an air of indifference my service
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 6: to my master. When he consented to inquire after me,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: I flung myself into the chariot, and bad Robin drive on.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 6: We had not gone far before our man on horseback,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: riding full speed, overtook us, and coming up to the
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: side of the chariot, threw a letter into the window,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: and then departed without uttering a single syllable. I immediately
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: knew the hand of my dear Williams, and was somewhat surprised,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: though I did not apprehend the contents to be so
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 6: terrible as by the following exact coupy you will find them.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 9: Parson Williams to Pamela, Dear Mistress Pamela, that disrespect for
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: the clerk which I have formerly noted to you in
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: that villain your master hath now broke forth in a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 9: manifest fact. I was proceeding to my neighbor Spruce's church,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: where I purposed to preach a funeral sermon on the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 9: death of mister John Gage, the excise man, when I
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 9: was met by two persons who are, it seems, Sheriff's officers,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 9: and arrested for the one hundred and fifty pounds which
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 9: your master had lent me. And unless I can find
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 9: bail within these few days, of which I see no likelihood,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 9: I shall be carried to jail. This accounts for my
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 9: not having visited you these two days, which you might
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 9: assure yourself I should not have failed if the potestas
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 9: had not been wanting. If you can by any means
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: prevail on your master to release me. I beseech you
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 9: so to do, not scrupling anything for righteousness sake. I
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 9: hear he has just arrived in this country. I have
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: herewith sent him a letter of which I transmit you
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 9: a copy. So, with prayers for your success, I subscribe
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: myself your affectionate friend, Arthur Williams, Parson Williams to Squire Booby,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 9: Honored Sir, I am justly surprised to feel so heavy
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: a weight of your displeasure, without being conscious of the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: least demerit towards so good and generous a patron as
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: I have ever found you. For my own part, I
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 9: can truly say nil consciresibi nu lie palsquer eculpi. And therefore,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: as this proceeding is so contrary to your usual goodness
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 9: which I have often experienced, and more especially in the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: loan of this money for which I am now arrested,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 9: I cannot avoid thinking some malicious persons have insinuated false
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 9: suggestions against me, intending thereby to eradicate those seeds of
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: affection which I have hardly travailed to sow in your heart,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 9: and which promised to produce such excellent fruit. If I
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 9: have any ways offended you, sir, be graciously pleased to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 9: let me know it, and likewise to point out to
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: me the means whereby I may reinstate myself in your favor.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: For next to him whom the great themselves must bow
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: down before I know none to whom I shall bend
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 9: with more lowliness than your honor, Permit me to subscribe myself, honored, Sir,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 9: your most obedient and most obleached and most dutiful, humble servant,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: Arthur Williams.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: The fight of poor mister Williams shot me more than
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: my own. For as the beggars Oprah says, nothing moves
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: one so much as a great man in distress. And
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: to see a man of his learning forced to submit
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: solo to one, and I have often heard him say
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: he despises this, I think a most affecting circumstance. I
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: write all this to you, dear Mamma, at the inn
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 6: where I lie, this first night, and I shall send
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: it immediately by the post. It will be in town,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: and look him before me. Don't let my coming away
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: vex you, for as my master will be in town
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: in a few days, I shall have an opportunity of
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: seeing him, and let the worst come to the worst,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: I shall be sure of my settlement at last, which
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: is all from your dutiful daughter, Shamela p s. Just
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: as I was going to send this away, a letter
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 6: is come from my master, desiring me to return with
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: a large number of promises. I have him now, as
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: sure as a gun, as you will perceive by the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: letter itself, which I am enclose to you.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: This letter is unheavily lost, as well as the next,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: which Chemeli wrote, and which contained an account of all
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: the proceedings previous to her marriage. The only remaining one
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: which I could preserve seems to have been written about
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: a week after the sereny was performed, and is as follows.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 6: Shamela Booby to Henrietta Mary, our honor Andrews, Madam. In
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: my last I left off at our sitting down to
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: supper in our wedding night, where I behaved with as
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: much bashfulness as the purest virgin in the world could
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 6: have done. The most difficult task for me was to bluge. However,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 6: thou holding my breath and squeezing my cheeks with my handkerchief,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: I did pretty well. My husband was extremely eager and
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 6: impatient to have supper removed, after which she gave me
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: leave to retire into my closet for a quarter or
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: an hour, which was very agreeable to me, for I
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 6: implored that time in writing to mister Williams, who, as
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: I informed you in my last is released and presented
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: to the living upon the death of the last Parson. Well,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: at last, I went to bed, and my husband soon
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: leaped in after me. Where I shall only assure you
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: I act on my part in such a manner that
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: no bridegroom was ever better satisfied with its bride's virginity.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: And to confess the truth, I might have been well
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: and not satisfied too, if I had never been acquainted
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: with Parson Williams. Oh, what regard men who marry widows
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: should have to do qualifications of their former husbands. We
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: did not rise next morning till eleven, and then we
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 6: sat down to breakfast. I had two slices of bread
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: and butter, and dragged three dishes of tea with a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: good deal of sugar, and we both looked very silly.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: After breakfast we dressed ourselves, he in a blue camlet coat,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 6: very richly lazed and breeches of the sign, with a
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: paduafoy waistcoatliced with silver, and I in one of my
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: mistress's gowns. I will have finer when I come to town.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 6: We then took a walk in the garden, and he
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: kissed me several times and made me a present of
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: hundred guineas, which I gave away before night to the servants,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: twenty to one and ten to another, and so on.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: We ate a very hearty dinner, and about eight in
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 6: the evening went to bed again. He is prodigiously found
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: on me, but I don't like him half so well,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: my dear Williams. The next morning we arose earlier and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: I asked him for another hundred guineas, and he gave
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: them me. I sent fifty to Parson Williams, and the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: rest I gave away, two guineas to a beggar and
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 6: three to a man riding along the road, and the
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: rest to other people. I long to be in London,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: that I may have the opportunity of lying some out
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: as well as giving away. I believe I shall buy everything.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: I see what signifies having money if one doth not
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: spend it. The next day as soon as I was up,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: I asked him for another hundred. Why, my dear sissy,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 6: I don't grudge you anything, but how was it possible
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: for you to lay out the other two hundred? Hair last, sir,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 6: says I. I hope I am not obliged to give
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 6: you an account of every shilling troth that will be
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: being your servants. Still, I assure you I married you
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: were no such for you. Besides, did you not tell
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: me I should be mistress of your estate? And I
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: will be two? For though I brought no fortune, I
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: am as much your wife as if I had brought
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 6: a million. Yes, but my dare, says he. If you
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 6: had brought a million, you would spend it all at
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 6: this right. Besides, what will your expenses be in London?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: If they are so great? Hair truly, says I, Sir,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: I shall live like other ladies of my fashion. And
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: if you think because I was a servant that I
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: shall be contended to be governed as your place, I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 6: will show you you are mistaking. If you had not
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: cared to marry me, you might have let it alone.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 6: I did not ask you, nor I did not court you, madam,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: says he. I don't value your hundred guineas to oblige you.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 6: But this is a spirit which I did not expect
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: in you, nor did I ever see any symptoms of
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: it before. Oh, but times are altered now. I am
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: your lady, sir, Yes to my sorrow, says he. I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: am afraid, And I am afraid to my sorrow too,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: For if you begin to use me in this manner already,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 6: I reckon you will beat me before a month's at
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: an end. For I am sure if you did, it
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: would injure me less than this barbarous treatment, upon which
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: I burst into tastes and pretended to fall into a fit.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: This frightened him out of his wits, and he called
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: up the servants. Missus Jewkes immediately came in, and she
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: and another of the mites fell heartily to rubbing my
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: temples and holding smelling bottles to my nose. Missus Jewkes
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: told him she had fair I should never recover, upon
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: which she began to beat his breasts and cried out, oh,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: my dearest angel, curse on my passionate temper. I have
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: destroyed her. I have destroyed her. Would she had spent
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: my holest night rather than this had happened. Speak to me,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 6: my love, I will melt myself into gold for thy pleasure.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: At last, having pretty well tired myself with counterfeiting and imagining,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: I had continued long and after my purpose in the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: champ fit, I began to im move my eyes, to
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 6: loose my teeth, and to open my hands, which mister
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: Booby no sooner perceived than he embraced and kissed me
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: with the eagrest ecstasy, asked my pardon on his knees
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: for what I had suffered through his folly and persevereness,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: and without more questions, fetched me the money I fancy.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 6: I have effectually prevented any farther refusals or inquiry about
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: my expenses. It would be hard, indeed, that a woman
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: who marries a man only for his money should be
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 6: the bed from spending it. Well. After all things were quiet,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 6: we sat down to breakfast. Yet I resolved not to
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: smile once, nor to say one good night, shured or
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 6: good humored word. On any account. Nothing can be more
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 6: prudent in a wife than a solemn backwardness to reconciliation.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: It makes a husband fearful of offending by the length
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 6: of his punishment. When we were dressed, the coach was,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: by my desire, ordered for an airing, which we took.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: In it.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 6: A long silence prevailed on both sides, though he constantly
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: squeezed my hand and kissed me, and used all the
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: familiarities which out peevishly permitted. At last, I opened my
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: mouth first, and so says I, you are sorry, you
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: are married. Pray, my dear, says he. Forget what I
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 6: said in a passion. Passion says I is aptly to
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 6: discover our thoughts than to teach us to corterfit well,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: says he. Whether you will believe me or not, I
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: solemnly vow I would not change thee for the richest
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: woman in the universe. No I warranty, O, says I.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: And yet you could refused me a nasty hundred pound
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: at these very words. I saw mister Williams riding as
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: fast as he could across the field, and I looked
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: out and saw a lease of greyhounds cursing a hair
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: which they presently killed, and I saw him alight and
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: take it from them. My husband ordered Robin to drive
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: towards him, and looked horribly out of humor, which I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: presently imputed to jealousy. So I began with him first,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 6: for that is the wisest way. Lass, Sir, says I,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: what makes you look so angry and grim? Doth the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 6: sight of mister Williams give you all this uneasiness? I
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: am sure I would never have married a woman of
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 6: whom I had so bad an opinion that I must
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: be an easy Every fellow shall looks at my dear
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: answered he you injure me extremely you was not in
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 6: my thoughts, nor indeed could be while they were covered
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: by so morose a countenance. I am justly angry with
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 6: that parson, whose family hath been raised from the dunghill
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: by ours, and earth received from me twenty kindnesses. And
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 6: yet it is not contended to destroy the game in
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: all other places, which I freely give him leave to do.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: But hath the impudence to pursue a few hairs which
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 6: I am desirous to preserve round about this little coppice. Look,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 6: my dear prayer, look, says he. I believe he's going
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 6: to turn Higgler to confess the truth. He had no
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: less than three tied up behind his horse, and a
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: fourth he held in his hand psure, says I, I
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: wish all the hairs in the country were, didn't A
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: parson himself cheerded me afterwards for using the word, though
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: it was in his service. Here is a face, indeed,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: about a nasty, little, pitiful creature that is not half
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 6: so useful as a cat. You shall not persuade me
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 6: that a man of your understanding would quarrel with a
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: clergyman for such a trifle. No, No, I am the
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 6: hare for whom poor Parson Williams is persecuted. And jealousy
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: is the motive. If you have married one of your
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 6: quality ladies, she would have had lovers by dozens, she
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: would show. But because you have taken a servant made forsooth,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 6: you are jealous if she'll but looks. And then I
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 6: began to watch her as a poor pop pop pop
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 6: parson in his pi pip pulpit, and then out burst
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: a flood of tears. My dear said he, for Heaven's sake,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 6: dry your eyes, and don't let him be a witness
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 6: of your hairs, which I should be sorry to think
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 6: might be impued to my own kindness. I've already given
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 6: you some proof that I am not jealous of this, parson,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: I will now give you a very strong one, for
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 6: I will mark my horse and you shall take Williams
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: into the couch. You may be sure this motion pleased
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 6: me that had pretended to make his light of it
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: as possible, and told him I was sorry his behavior
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 6: had made some such glaring instants necessary to the perfect
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: clearing my character. He soon came up to mister Williams,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 6: who had attempted to ride off, but was prevented by
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: one of our horsemen, whom my husband sent to stop him.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: When we met, my husband asked him how he did
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 6: with a very good humored air, and told him he
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 6: perceived he had found good spot that morning. He answered
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 6: pretty moderate, sir, for that he had found three hairs
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: tied on to the saddle dead in a ditch, winking
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: on me at the same time, and nodded he was
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: sorry there was such a rot among them. Well, says
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: mister Booby, if you please, mister Williams, you shall come
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: in and ride with my wife. For my own part,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: I will mind on horseback, for it is fine weather,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: and besides it does not become me to laurel and
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: a chariot. Whilst the clergyman rides on horseback, at which
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: words mister Booby leapt out and mister Williams leapt in
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: in an instant, telling my husband as he mounted he
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: was glad to see such a reformation, and that if
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: he continued his respect to the clergy, he might assure
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: himself a blessing from above. It was not that the
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 6: erring began to grow pleasant to me. Mister Williams, who
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: never had but one fault was that he generally smelled
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: of tobacco, was now perfectly sweet. For he had for
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: two days together and joined himself as a penance not
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: to smoke till he had kissed my lips. I will
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: loose me from that obligation, says I, and observing my
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 6: husband looking another way, I gave him a charming kiss.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: And then he asked me questions concerning my wedding night.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: This actually made me blush a wow. I did not
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: think it had been in him. As he went along,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 6: he began to discourse very learnedly, and told me the
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: flesh and the spirit were two distinct matters which had
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: not the least relation to each other, That all immaterial substances,
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: those were his very word. Such as love, desire, and
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 6: so forth reguarded by the spirit. But fine houses, larger
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: s sights, coaches, and dinty entertainments were the product of
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: the flesh. Therefore, says he, my dear, you have two husbands,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 6: one of the objects of your love and to satisfy
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 6: your desire, the other the object of your necessity, and
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 6: to furnish you with those good conveniences. I am sure
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: I remember every word, for he repeated it three times.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: Oh he is very good. Whenever I desire him to
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: repeat a thing to me three times, he always does it.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: As then, the spirit is preferable to the flesh, so
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: I am preferable to your other husband, to which I
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 6: am accident in tarm. Likewise, I say these things, my dear,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: said he, to satisfy your conscience. I fake for my conscience,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 6: said I. When shall I meet you again in the garden.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: My husband now rode up to the chariot and asked
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 6: us how we did I hate the sight of him,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: mister Williams answered very well, at your service. Then they
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 6: talked of the weather and other things. I wished him
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 6: gone again every minute, but only in vain. I had
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: no more opportunity of conversing with mister Williams. Well at dinner,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: mister Booby was very civil to mister Williams and told
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 6: him he was sorry for what had happened, and would
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 6: make him a sufficient amends if in his power, and
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: desired him to accept of a note of fifty pounds,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: which he was so good to receive notwithstanding all that
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 6: had passed, and told mister Booby he hoped he would
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: be forgiven and that he would pray for him. We
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: make a charming fool of him, He fatkins toms are
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: finally altered. I have entirely got the better of him,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: and I am resolved to never give him his humor. Oh,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: how full of detention a woman who hath once got
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: the reins into her own hand, ever to quit him again.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: After dinner, mister Williams drank the Church et cetera, and
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 6: smiled on me. When my husband's turn came, he drank
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 6: its tetra and the church, for which he was very
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 6: severely rebuked by mister Williams, it being a high crime
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 6: it seemed to name anything before the church. I do
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 6: not know what et cetera is, but I believe it
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 6: is something concerning chuoting parliament men. For I asked if
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 6: it was not the health to mister Booby's borough, and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 6: mister Williams, with a heart laugh answered yes, yes, it
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: is his burrow. We mean. I slipped out as soon
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: as I could, hoping mister Williams would finish the squire,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 6: as I have heard him say he could easily do
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: and come to me. But it happened quite otherwise, for
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: in about half an hour Booby came to me and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: told me he had left mister Williams, the mayor of
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: his borough, and two or three elder men heartily at it,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 6: and asked me if I would go here Williams sing
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: a catch, which added he he doth to a miracle
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: every opportunity of saying, my dear Williams was agreeable to me,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 6: which indeed I scarce had at this time, For when
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 6: he returned, the whole corporation were got together, and the
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 6: room was in a cloud or tobacco. Parson Williams was
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 6: at the upper end of the table, and he hath
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: pure round cherry takes, and his face looked all the
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 6: world to nothing but his sun and a fog. If
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 6: the sun had a pipe in his mouth there would
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: be no death ference. I began now to grow uneasy,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 6: apprehending I should have no more of mister Williams's company
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: that evening, and not at all caring for my husband,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: I advised him to sit down and drink for his
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 6: country with the rest of the company, but he refused
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: and desired me to give him some tea, swearing nothing
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 6: made him so sick as to hear a parcel scoundrels
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 6: roaring forth at the principle of honest men over their carps,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: when says he, I know most of them are such
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 6: empty blockheads that they don't know their right hand from
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: the left. That fellow there who has talked so much
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: of shaping at the left side of the parson in
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 6: whom they all place a confidence. If I don't take care,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 6: we'll seldom to my adversary. I don't know why I
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 6: mentioned it stuff to you, for I am sure I
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 6: know nothing about polytricks more than pass Williams tells me,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: who says that the courtside or in the riot, aunt,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: and every Christian ought to be on the same side
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 6: with the bishop. When we had finished our tea, we
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 6: walked in a garden till it was dark. And then
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 6: my husband proposed, instead of returning to the company which
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 6: I had desired, that I might see Parson Williams again
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: to STARp in another room by ourselves, which for Pharaoh,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: making him jealous, and considering too that Parson Williams would
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: be pretty far gone, I was obliged to consent to. Oh,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: what a devilish thing it is for a woman to
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 6: be obliged to go to bed to a spindle shanked
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 6: young squire. She does not like when there is a
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 6: jolly parson in the same house she is fond of.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: In the morning, I grew very peevish and in a dunce.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: Notwithstanding all he could say or do to please me,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 6: I exclaimed against the privilege of husbands, and why would
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 6: I would not be pulled and tremble about? And last
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 6: he hit on the only method which would have brought
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 6: me into humor, and proposed to me a journey to
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 6: London within a few days. This you might easily gets
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: placed me, For besides the desire I have of showing
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 6: myself forth, of buying fine clothes, jewels, coaches, houses, and
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 6: ten thousand other fine things, Parson Williams is it seems
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: going the other too, to be instituted. Oh, what a
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: charming journey I shall have, for I hope to keep
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 6: the dear man in the charrot with me all the way,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: and that foolish booby, for that is the night mister
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: Williams has set him. We'll ride on horseback so as
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 6: I shall have an opportunity of seeing you so shortly.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 6: I think I'll mention no more matters to you.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, I had like to have forgot one very material thing,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: which is that it will look horribly for a idea
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 6: of my quality and fashion to own such a woman
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: as you for my mother. Therefore we must meet him
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 6: private only, And if you will never claim me nor
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: mention me to any one, I will always allow you
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: what is very handsome. Parson william hath greatly advanced me
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 6: in this, and says he thinks I should do very
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: well to lay out twenty pounds and set you up
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: in a little chandless shop. But you must remember all
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: my favors to you will depend on your secrecy. For
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: I am positively resolved I will not be known to
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: be your daughter. And if you tell any one so
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 6: I shall done out with all my might, which Parson
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: william says, I may do with a safe conscience, being
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: our married woman. So I rest your humble servant, Shamela
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 6: p s. The strangest fancy hath entered into my Bowby's
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 6: head that can be imagined. He is resolved to have
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 6: a book made about him and me. He proposed it
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 6: to mister Williams and offered him a reward for his pints.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: But he says he never writ anything of that kind,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 6: but will recommend my husband when he comes to town
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 6: to a parson who does that sort of business for folks,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 6: one who can make my husband and me and Parson
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 6: Williams to be all great people, for he can make
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: black white. It seems well. But I say my name
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: is to be altered. Mister Williams says the first syllable
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 6: hath too comical a sound, so eight is to be
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 6: changed to Pamela. I own, I can't imagine what can
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 6: be said, for to be sure, I shan't confess any
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: of my secrets to them, And so I whispered Parson
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 6: Williams about that, who answered me, I need not give
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 6: myself any trouble, for the gentleman who writes lives never
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 6: asked more than a few names of his customers, and
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 6: that he made all the rist out of his own head.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 6: You mistake, child, said he, if you apprehend any truths
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 6: are to be delivered so far. On the contrary, if
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 6: you had not been acquainted with the name, you would
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 6: not have known it to be your own history. I
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 6: have seen a piece of his performance. Were the persons
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: whose life was written, could he have risen from the
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 6: dead again? Would not have even suspected that he had
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: been aighed that unless but the title of the book,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 6: which was subscribed with his name. Well, all these matters
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 6: are strange to me. Yet I can't help laughing to
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 6: think I shall see myself in a printed book.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: So much for missus Shamela or Pamela, which I have
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 5: taken pains to transcribe from the originals sent down by
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 5: her mother in a rage at the proposal in her
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: last letter. The originals themselves are in my hands and
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: shall be communicated to you if you think proper to
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: make them public, and certainly they will have their use.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: The character of Shamela will make young gentlemen wary how
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: they take the most fatal step, both to themselves and families.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 5: By youthful, hasty, and improper matches. Indeed, they may assure
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: themselves that all such prospects of happiness are vain and delusive,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 5: and that they sacrifice all the solid comforts of their
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 5: lives to a very transient satisfaction of a passion, which,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: how hot soever it be, will be soon curled, and
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: when curled, will afford them nothing but repentance. Can anything
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: be more miserable than to be decid despised by the
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 5: whole world, And that must certainly be the consequence. To
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 5: be despised by the person obliged, which it is more
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 5: than probable will be the consequence, and of which we
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 5: see an instance in Shamela. And lastly, to despise one's self,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 5: which must be the result of any reflection on so
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 5: weak and unworthy a choice. As to the character of
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: Parson Williams, I am sorry, it is a true one. Indeed,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 5: those who do not know him will hardly believe it. So,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: But what scandal doth it throw on the order to
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: have one bad member unless they endeavor to screen and
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 5: protect him. In him, you see a picture of almost
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 5: every vice exposed in nauseous and odious colors, and If
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 5: a clergyman would ask me by what pattern he should
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: form himself, I would say, be the reverse of Williams.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: So far therefore he may be of use to the
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: clergy themselves. And though God forbid, there should be many
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 5: Williams's among them, You and I to honors to pretend
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 5: that the body wants no reformation. To say the truth,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 5: I think no greater instance of the contrary can be
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: given than that which appears in your letter the Confederating
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: to cry up a nonsensical, ridiculous book, I believe, the
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 5: most extensively so of any ever yet published. And to
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 5: be so weak and so wicked as to pretend to
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 5: make it a matter of religion, whereas, so far from
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: having any model tendency, the book is by no means innocent.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: For first, there are many lascivious images in it, very
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 5: improper to be laid before the youth of either sex. Secondly,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 5: young gentlemen are here taught that to marry their mother's chambermaids,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: and to indulge the passion of lust at the expense
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: of reason and common sense, is an act of religion, virtue,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: and honor, and indeed the surest road to happiness. Thirdly,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: old chambermaids are strictly enjoyed to look out after their masters.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 5: They are taught to use little arts to that purpose,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 5: and lastly are countenanced in impertinence to their superiors and
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 5: in betraying the secrets of families. Fourthly, in the character
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: of Missus Jewkes, vice is rewarded, whence every housekeeper may
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: learn the usefulness of pemping and boarding for her master. Fifthly,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: and Parson Williams, who is represented as a faultless character,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 5: we see a busy fellow intermeddling with the private affairs
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 5: of his patron, whom he is very ungratefully forward to
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 5: expose and condemn on every occasion. Many more objections might
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: if I had time or inclination to be made to
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: this book. But I apprehend what hath been said is
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 5: sufficient to persuade you of the use which may arise
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 5: from publishing an antidote to this poison. Sent you the
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 5: copies of these papers, and if you have leisure to
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 5: communicate them to the press, I will transmit to you
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 5: the originals. Though I assure you the copies are exact,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 5: I shall only add that there is not the least
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 5: foundation for anything which is said of Lady Davers or
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: any of the other ladies, all that is merely to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: be imputed the invention of the biographer. I have particularly
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: inquired after Lady Davers. And don't hear mister Booby hath
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: such a relation, or that there is indeed any such
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: person existing. I am, dear sir, most faithfully and respectfully,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 5: your humble servant, j.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 4: Oliver Parson tickletext to Parson Oliver, Dear Sir, I have
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: read over the history of Shamola as it appears in
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: those authentic copies you favored me with, and am very
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: ashamed of that character which I was hastily prevailed on
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: to give that book. I am equally angry with the
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: pert Jade herself and with the author of her life,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: for I scarce know yet.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 12: To whom I chiefly owe my imposition, which hath been
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 12: so general that if numbers could defend me from shame,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 12: I should have no reason to apprehend it. As I
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 12: have your implied leave to publish what you so kindly
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 12: sent me, I shall not wait for the originals, as
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 12: you assure me the cuppies are exact, and as I
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 12: am really impatient to do what I think a serviceable
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 12: act of justice to the world. Finding by the end
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 12: of her letter that the little hussy was in town,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 12: I made it pretty much my business to inquire after her, but.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 4: With no effect hitherto. As soon as I succeed in
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 4: this inquiry, you shall hear what discoveries I can learn.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 4: You will pardon the shortness of this letter, as you
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 4: shall be troubled with a much longer very soon. And
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: believe me, dear Sir, your most faithful servant. Thomas tickletext ps.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: Since I writ I have a certain account that mister
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 4: Booby Hath caught his wife in bed with Williams. Hath,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: turned her off and is prosecuting him in the spiritual court.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: End of an Apology for the Life of Mistress Shamela
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: Andrews by Connie Keeber narrator read by Patty Cunningham.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: Connie Keeber read by Noel Bedrian.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: John Puff read by Bob Gonzales.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 4: Thomas tickletext read by Chuck Williamson.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 5: Passing Oliver read by L. G.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 7: Pag Shamela read by Christine gi Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 7: read by Margaret espayatt.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 8: Missus Lankroso Jervis read by April Gonzalez.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 9: Parson, Arthur Williams read by Martin Geeson.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 10: Booby read by Hermann Roskams