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cause_n	know_v	think_v	time_n	2,521	5	3.4050	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80690	The court and city vagaries or intrigues, of both sexes. Written by one of the fair sex.	One of the fair sex.	1700-1710 (1710)	Wing C6584A; ESTC N4154	21,640	58

Passion not that I had the least Inclination to accept his Proposals tho' he has a pretty Estate and considerable Place under the Government yet there is no Inchantments lodg'd in his Person so as to make him amiable in my Eyes However I did not know but he might expect I should take it an Honour and because I would not seem to lessen his Deserts or value my own without Cause I study'd a long Time for an Answer to that imaginary Letter he might send me and contriv'd it so as he could not think me imperious or fantastical or that my Refusal was meant in Affront to him I thought it best to say that a Sense of my own Imperfections had occasion'd me to vow Celibacy some Time since as knowing I am unworthy to be belov'd This Letter lay by me so long that I began to despair of ever having Use for it and grew a little disturb'd least the Product of my Studies should be lost But one Evening I had Notice that the Gentleman's Foot-man over the way had brought a Letter and would deliver it only to my self Upon first hearing I confess I was in twenty Minds whether to send this I had by me or not At last I found it would be a considerable Time before I could accomplish another and that I had no more to do with this but to seal and direct it and by that Means gain the Reputation of a Woman of a quick Thought I took his Letter said I would step up and read it and send down an Answer immediately The Fellow told me very briskly it did not require an Answer and was gone before I could say another Word I suppose he had given those Orders because he was resolv'd to take no Denial so retir'd into my Closet and to my Astonishment read this Madam IT 's with infinite Regret I have prevail'd with my self to disclose a Secret that I with Reason fear will cause you much Uneasiness and withal to give you this unwelcome Caution that is for your own Sake I beg you 'll endeavour to suppress your growing Passion for me which has been apparently manifest by those Tremblings and Emotions which naturally seize you at my Approach and I with so much Pleasure have discern'd But have the Misfortune Madam to be engag'd in an Affair my Friends put me upon before I had the Honour to know of you It 's a just Consideration of your Merit that won't suffer me to let you languish under a fruitless Expectation of what may never be in my Power to gratify I hope you are so good a Christian as to bear this Disappointment patiently and be assur'd that tho' I cannot yet there is nothing in the World I covet more than to be Entirely Yours It was a long Time before I could recover from the Surprize this Letter had thrown me into and was really griev'd to find that one can't blush for a Fellow's Impudence but he must misinterpret it to Love At first I was in the Mind to write and undeceive the Puppy but upon Consideration found I should but lessen my self and increase his Vanity by shewing any Regard to it for the only Way to mortify such Animals is to scorn and neglect them and to let the Fool see it was not in his Power to cause me the least Uneasiness The next Day being Sunday I dress'd my self in the best Cloaths I have and went to Church with a gayer Air than ordinary where I had not been long before I had the Pleasure to find my Opposite had met with a greater Disappointment than my self and could have laugh'd at his Folly if I had thought it worth while but to do Justice on both Sides I can't say I escap'd altogether unpunish'd for my Pride for in leaving off my Hood that Day the Weather being grown cool I got a very great Cold which occasions me to keep my Chamber at this Time The Ladies fell a laughing at my Amour and by this Time I suppose were pretty well tir'd and took their Leaves I Shall not undertake to give a circumstantial Account of the unhappy Differences that arose not long after the Marriage between Sir Bounce Sparkit and his Lady Tho' her Vertue Beauty and every Merit were his chief Inducements to enter into the matrimonial State yet through the Instigations of his pretended Friends and her Enemies he soon grew to an Indifference and afterwards to a Neglect or rather ill Ufage of the only Person in the World that entirely loves and maintains an inviolable Fidelity to him Sir Bounce is one of those who places his whole Felicity in himself and does not require the Additions a good Wife is capable of giving to make his Life easy to him and as he never takes nor gives Reasons for any Thing he thought fit not long since to withdraw to a separate Apartment and devote himself up to Gallantries while his forsaken Spouse has full Leisure to lament her Unhappiness or Time and Opportunity if she pleases to revenge her Injuries tho' I believe she never entertain'd a Thought of that Nature but on the contrary has made it her utmost Endeavours if possible to retrieve her Husband 's fleeting Passion In order to which she went one Morning to his Chamber where she found him equipping in a riding Habit and with all the Sweetness in her Looks and most obliging Terms imaginable said she was come to Breakfast with him and to have the Pleasure of an Hour's Conversation if he would permit it He answer'd with a very haughty Air that she had made Choice of a wrong Time to gain any of his Company being in Expectation every Moment of a Gentleman to call of him for Hide-Park and that if she would shew him any Marks of her Duty and Prudence she must immediately retire The Lady began to be a little inrag'd at her cold Reception and his Ingratitude and briskly told him those Cautions were needless and that she wish'd he would acquit his Duty as well as she had done her's Upon this Sir Bounce commanded her not to talk but she still disobeying he order'd his Valet to lead her to her own Apartment This Indignity was resented to the last Degree and she did not fail to tell him at parting It is not long since you would have gone down on both Knees to have obtain'd the Blessing your self Under this new Discouragement she flies to Olympa a young Lady her near Relation and Confident who lives with her in the House It 's to her only she opens all her Grievances Olympa always endeavours to rally her out of her Melancholy and tells her a Husband's Love is not worth preserving and as she is a true Coquet declares she can never value any Man farther than to have the Glory of a Conquest of which she is so extreamly covetous that she can't bear the Thoughts of a Cavalier who is not her profess'd Adorer and never fails to play the Tyrant after she