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At the request of a Correspondent, we give the following LETTER
a place:--- It is extracted from a London periodical publication---
and, notwithstanding the errors in the orthography and diction of
it, the author had the pleasure of making a conquest.
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_My dear charmin Cratur,_
If your brite eies have had the same efet upon others, they have been
after havin upon me, you must already, like Samson, have slain your
Tousands, though not with the same sort of weepor. For _I_ had no sooner
beheld you tother nite at Rennela, than your two little percers darted
their poysen quite thro my hart, and killed me on the spot. So that _I_
immediately determined to find you out, that _I_ may he revenged of you.
So havin done so, as sed before, _I_ now write to tell you my situashon;
and to begg that you woud have compashon on a lover that lies bleedin at
your fete.
If you have not the hart of a she tygres, you will admit me to your
presance, most adorable cratur, that _I_ may have the plashure of dyin
in your beloved site. And if you shall be after bein so kind as to
relent of your crewelty, and rais your expirin lover, _I_ will lay my
fortun and my honers in the same place where _I_ laid myself, and raise
you in your turn to be Lady O’----l. For _I_ vow by the great Shant
Patrick, that _I_ love you better than ever _I_ loved any women except
yourself.
And _I_ further vow by the holy shrine of Shant Patrick aforesed, that
_I_ will not outliv the fatal anser you send me. But as you are as far
above all your sex in buty, as the glorius sun is above the palfaced
moon and the little twinklin stars, _I_ dout not but you exced them as
much in goodness. Therfore _I_ will not dispare, but hope that you will
send me word by your confidante, at what hower _I_ shall have the
plashure of waitin upon you, to receve from your own pretty mouth my
destinny. Till when, _I_ remane, most enchantin and angelic cratur,
Your’s whether livin or dyin,
_Sir ROUKE O’----L, Barrownite._
P.S. Pray let me kno when _I_ shall call for an anser, as _I_ do not
chuse to send any boddy else but myself.
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