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6 you would a mad man; for notwithſtanding. I ſtill think you ſtrictly virtuous, yet your good name may be irraparably loſt, by ſuch open acts of imprudence is have no other motive but an unaffected zeal for your intereſt and welfare, flatter myſelf you'll put a favourable conſtruction on the liberty here taken by Your affectionate Friend, and affectionate Aunt.

Advice from a Father to a young Beginner, what Company to chaſe, and how to behave in it,

Dear Robin

AS you are now entering into the world, and will probably have conſiderable dealing in your buſineſs, the frequent occafion you will have for advice from others, will make you deſirous of ſingling out, among your moſt intimate acquaintance, one or two, whom you would view in the light of friends.

in the choice of theſe, your utmoſt care and caution will be neceſſary; for, by a miſtake here you car ſcarcely conceive the fatal effects you may hereafter experience Wherefore it will be proper for you to make a judgment of thoſe who are fit to be your adviſers, by the conduct they have obſerved in their own affairs, and the reputation they bear in the word. For he who has dy his own indiſcretions ur done himſelf is much ſitter to be ſet up as a landmark for a prudent mariner to ſhun his courſes, than an example to follow

Old age is generally flow and heavy, youth headſtrong and precipitant; but there are old men who are full of vivacity, and young men replete with diſcretion; which makes me rather point out the conduct than the age of the perſons with whom you ſhould