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5 the too great freedom that you take with Mr. Trippit. You have been ſeen with him (if ſame lies not in the ſide box's of both theatres, at the blue coat hoſpital on a Sunday night, and afterwards at a certain tavern, not a mile from the ice, which is a houſe (as I have been credibly informed) of no good repute You have both more ver, been ſeen at Ran! igh aſſem y Vauxhall gardens and what is ſtill more flagrant a upar's fire works. Don't imagine, niece, that I am in the leaſt prejudiced, or ſpeak out of any private picque but let me tell you, your familiarity with him give me no ſmall concern, as his character is one of the beſt, and as he his acted in the moſt ungererous manner by two or three very virtuous young ladies of my aquaintance, who entertained a too favourable opinion of his honour 'Tis poſſible as you have no great expectacion from your relations, and he has an an duity as is reported, of ol a year left him by his uncle, that you may be tempted to imagine his addreſſes an offer to your advantage. 'Tis much to be queſtioned, however, whether his fair promiſes he may poſſibly make you, I have heard it whiſpered, that he is privately engaged to a rich, old doating lady, not far from Hackney. Beſides, admitting it to be true, that he is really entitled to the anuity above mentioned, yet is is too well known that he is deeply in debt; that he lives beyond his income and has very little if any regard for his reputation In ſhort not to mince the matter, he is a perfect libertine, and is ever boaſting ot favours from our weak ſex whole fondneſs and frailty are the conſtant topics of his ralliery and ridicule,

all things, therefore, duly conſidered, let me prevail on you, dear Niece, to avoid his company as you