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HE following Hitory is given in a Series of Letters, written principally in a double, yet eparate, Correpondence;

Between Two young Ladies of Virtue and Honour, bearing an inviolable Friendhip for each other, and writing upon the mot intereting Subjects: And

Between Two Gentlemen of free Lives; one of them glorying in his Talents for Stratagem and Invention, and communicating to the other, in Confidence, all the ecret Purpoes of an intriguing Head, and reolute Heart.

But it is not amis to premie, for the ake of uch as may apprehend Hurt to the Morals of Youth from the more freely-written Rh