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 satisfaction, than to find his mistress go to the devil to make sure of him.

But besides this, there passes many letters; and, O! what a pleasure it is to him to ransack all the academies of compliments for fine tropes and figures to adorn his style with. But then her answers! how transporting they are! how often does he kiss the blotted characters! But see how fresh pleasures crowd upon him. Just now he is told his mistress will be at a dancing in Lime-street; this fans the increasing flame; nothing will serve but he must be with her, and then how he smirks and simpers; but when he sees her dance he is all over transports; how much does he admire her lofty carriage: the holding up her petticoat enchants him, and the celestial motion of her buttocks make his teeth chatter, and his heart go pit a pat to think what he shall do wish so much excellence! But it would take a volume to tell the pleasures of this interview: let it suffice to give him an opportunity to steal her pocket handkerchief, and to treat her and her maid at the tavern. Nor can his mistress now refuse to let him take as many kisses as he