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bat eondfdefiftg how much she abounds with them to all , and > . terrible to those bout her person , I think myself well off that I ' ve escaped -so welL She talks fif putting her other woman off , atSii
Sometimes of having another , and sometimes not ; but if she has not another at JMichaelmas when this goes , I fear it is impossible to hold it , being always then in waiting day and night , nature can ' t hold that owt without a reliever . She is
very much pleased with works of various | dnds which I ' ve done for her , and the ^ sickness -of iny hand , and with me in other respects as much I know ; but she is of that deceitful temper , that there is no trusting to her a month to an end , ( this under the rose . ) She is in short a wery had good woman . She had this gentlewoman that is with her but four months before she hired me to be in her
plate , unknown to her ; but she being a . very spirited person , told her her own , » s they say , and call'd feer religion in question , and being pricked inly , she has continued her ever since , tho' has led licr a < iog * s life . What has been , * may be , for she used to do so heretofore . Sometimes she will have but one , and when that has been like to die . with
fitting up and tending , and can do no more , t ^ en she takes anoth e r . She buti $ dW ypung woman three years since , worn out with 'watching , and she was frnjd of her tod . God knows how , k tHU Jare with me , but I fear I shall not fee able to bear it . They keep that house in town ' till Michaelmas , so direct for me
there till then , and after , ta the Right Honorable Lord Vane ' s at Fail ! Lawn , sear SeifenOaks , in Kent , by way of London * * nd let not y $ writing he read thro * the gapej , dash it on the outside , dot that I know it js so , Jmt to prevent
curious people . My lord I hear likes me very well , and W ^ en Leome in - Jws way , is very ciyil . y * Ht tejj jpie | 3 puare not ; allow'd to tell Kne" the reason of your writing , and yet * i : is a letter *> f business . This i * ^ very dark , atid all the light that 1 can see is . » &
tk ^ lv § W * & <* P < $ -IPRWW been . thinking of something chat may be more certain and easy than this will be . —1 am afraid ^ U oDi r serva n ts are cou rtiers j xronjUDU ^ ym fear of caJch other * , and given to plot and undermine vMie anmtfoer , vand cry o * it rogue first , then anothe ^ ccuse $ * he niai ) td to on , yet complaisant to their U *** p fcwM *** their threats behind fchek
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backs . The little time ?* ve been in th « family , I € ^ ld * 611 sh eets of the rise and fell Of tHe ' skfMits in it ^ for they are dU ways active , jealous , arid fearful- The woman about my lady and her
sweetheart laid their heads together in what manner to root me out . They could charge me with no vices , nor any-of my words , being always civil and on my guard ; however , they contriVd to re * present me to my lord as one that could not work weii , for she had been forced
to pick out something I had done , and t was not capable © Amending lace and of making rufSes , and shew'd him some of my doing , ( bad enough to be sure , ) that the woman had done herself on purpose I heard nothing of this of a long while * till my lady told me that she hoped I would take mpre eare of my lord ' s ruffles ,
than I had done , for she Was told I could work exceeding well , but she found it was false / , 1 told * her all the ruffles 1 had niade for my lord were not set 6 n , but I had them hy me , and that there must be some mistake , , aod shew * d them her . She said nobody could do them neater . So it a | i came out , and
justice took place ; the man that cpn » triv'd it was tur «* d aw-ay $ jand you may think the woman is not very ' agfcfcea i » tome . I said asrlittie to her as I could say , and that with calmness and sedatCr ue ^ ,- biit T know her now , and it hag been in > my power often " to say truth of her , that she would not statr a day after ,
but I always scorn'd those reprisals , ibr I ' -excus'd her a hundred times wHe » I could with any calourof reason say this best . Thus stands the c ^ se , |* odd de ^ tr Sir ; you may be a Judge youfself ¦ •* - * You are so exceedingly friendly and kind to interest youi « elf in what concerns nie >
that I shall not ask pardon for my trou £ bling you with this account fef myself / I rejoiee at e ^ ery thin g tha ^ t gives ytffc pleasure , that you were so pJteas'd arfd entertain ed with the two $ oc | ors . We have every thing here that all the , el ements can afford us in greafc ' plenty , bpt we all want content fefam thirhigWest to is
the lowest , , whic ^ all- ~ hMy ipmpft ** full , and I can add no . morc , >«* n ^ best love and affection to dear ghod Mri Say and miss , and best washes attcn ^ you alJ » which ^ ome ^ ft-olSl ^ e ^ eafirt ?^ - " - Your sincere Friend , 4 «* m ^ t ty&jfijJSBf .
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Wi The Say Papers .- ^ -&riginat Le&er * dfMrs , $% eppards . ^—tett . £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/8/
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