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218 your folly do no further mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I, who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and served you, I, who long thought you the first of womankind, entreat that, before your fate is irrevocable, I may once more see you.

I was, I once was, Madam, most truly yours,

Author:Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

I will come down if you permit it.