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 soe liberall a provision made you for y maintainance -but y reason you give for yr resolution I cannot at all approve for you say "to spend more you can't" thats because you have it not to spend, otherwise it seems you would. So yt 'tis y Grandmoths scre- tion & not yours th keeps you from extravagency, which plainly appears in y close of y sentence, saying y you think it simple covetousness to save out of y but 'tis my opinion if you lay all on y back 'tis ten tymcs a greater sin & shame th to save come what out of soe large an allowance in y purse to help you at a dead lift. Child, we all know our beginning, but who knows his end? Y best use th can be made of fair weath is to provide against foule & 'tis great discretion & of noe small commendations for a young woman betymes to show herself housewifly & frugal. Y Mother neither Maide nor wife ever yett bestowed forty pounds a ycare on herself & yett if you never fall und a worse reputation in ye world thn she (I thank God for it) hath hitherto done, you need not repine at it, & you can- not be ignorant of y difference th was between my fortune & what you are to expect. You ought like- wise to consider th you have seven brothers & sisters & you are all one man's children & therefore it is very unreasonable that one should expect to be pre- ferred in finery soe much above all y rest for 'tis impossible you should soc much mistake r ffather's condition as to fancy he is able to allow every one of you forty pounds a yeare a piece, for such an allowance with the charge of their diett over and abov