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Rh tendereſt, and moſt perſuaſive manner, important truths and elegant accompliſhments.

When you have behaved well for ſome time you ſhall viſit her, and ramble in her little garden; there are ſeveral pretty ſeats in it, and the nightingales warble their ſweetest ſongs, undiſturbed, in the ſhade.

I have now given you an account of the preſent ſituation of both, and of their characters; liſten to me whilſt I relate in what manner theſe characters were formed, and the conſequence of each adhering to a different mode of conduct.

Lady Sly, when ſhe was a child, uſed to ſay pert things, which the injudicious people about her laughed at, and called very witty. Finding that her prattle pleaſed, ſhe talked inceſſantly, and invented ſtories, when adding to thoſe that had ſome foundation was not ſufficient to entertain the company. If ſhe ſtole ſweetmeats, or broke any thing, the cat or the dog was blamed, and the poor animals were corrected for her faults; nay, ſometimes the ſervants loſt their places in conſequence of her aſſertions. Rh