of the World, [2] I have studied your Faults so long, that they are become as familiar to me, and I like them as well as I do my own.  Look to it, Madam, and consider whether you think this gay Behaviour will appear to me as amiable when an Husband, as it does now to me a Lover.  Things are so far advanced, that we must proceed; and I hope you will lay it to Heart, that it will be becoming in me to appear still your Lover, but not in you to be still my Mistress.  Gaiety in the Matrimonial Life is graceful in one Sex, but exceptionable in the other.  As you improve these little Hints, you will ascertain the Happiness or Uneasiness of, Madam, Your most obedient, Most humble Servant, T.D.”

SIR, When I sat at the Window, and you at the other End of the Room by my Cousin, I saw you catch me looking at you.  Since you have the Secret at last, which I am sure you should never have known but by Inadvertency, what my Eyes said was true.  But it is too soon to confirm it with my Hand, therefore shall not subscribe my Name.

SIR, There were other Gentlemen nearer, and I know no Necessity you were under to take up that flippant Creatures Fan last Night; but you shall never touch a Stick of mine more, that’s pos. Phillis.

  To Colonel R——­s [3] in Spain.

Before this can reach the best of Husbands and the fondest Lover, those tender Names will be no more of Concern to me.  The Indisposition in which you, to obey the Dictates of your Honour and Duty, left me, has increased upon me; and I am acquainted by my Physicians I cannot live a Week longer.  At this time my Spirits fail me; and it is the ardent Love I have for you that carries me beyond my Strength, and enables me to tell you, the most painful Thing in the Prospect of Death, is, that I must part with you.  But let it be a Comfort to you, that I have no Guilt hangs upon me, no unrepented Folly that retards me; but I pass away my last Hours in Reflection upon the Happiness we have lived in together, and in Sorrow that it is so soon to have an End.  This is a Frailty which I hope is so far from criminal, that methinks there is a kind of Piety in being so unwilling to be separated from a State which is the Institution of Heaven, and in which we have lived according to its Laws.  As we know no more of the next Life, but that it will be an happy one to the Good, and miserable to the Wicked, why may we not please ourselves at least, to alleviate the Difficulty of resigning this Being, in imagining that we shall have a Sense of what passes below, and may possibly be employed in guiding the Steps of those with whom we walked with Innocence when mortal?  Why may not I hope to go on in my usual Work, and, tho unknown to you, be assistant in all the Conflicts of your Mind?  Give me leave to say to you, O best of Men, that I cannot figure to myself a greater Happiness than in such an Employment:  To be present at all the Adventures to which human