in the face 22 For a film in the Eye 32 Faces scabbed 58 Frames for Pictures 6â— Feathers of Woosted 73 Fruits preserved 108 G FOr the cold Gout hot Gout p 25 25 A Glister to cool and bind 26 The running Gout or any hot Tumor 27 Plaister for the Gout 28 Glast windows made clean 68 To gild any thing with gold or silver 126 H TO keep the Hair clean and pâ—eserve it p. 8 Rheum falling from the head 19 To cure a Horse of a Cold 24 Huckle-bone 47 Pain in the head 48 Heart-burning 50 Passion of the heart 50 Hangings for Closers 72 I FOr the 〈◊〉 p. 44 Impostame in the Eaâ— 48 〈◊〉 so Ague or Feavor 59 Jelly for a weak stomach 109 Jelly of Fruits 116 K FOr Kbed-heels p. 35 Kings Evil 55 56 L TO make clean gold and silver Lace p. 7 〈…〉 Lip salve 9 〈…〉 or other 〈…〉 23 〈…〉 119 M MAdnese and fumes in the Head 23 Falling down of the Mother 28 To dress Mutton very savourly 89 To stew Muscles or Cockles 90 Marmalade of Damsons 118 Marmalade with Barbersies and Pippins 124 N TO Cure sore Nipples 32 Numlness in Lambs 48 Neats Tongues ported 86 O A Most excellent Ointment p. 19 Obstructions 113 P TO make clean Points or Laces p. 3 To wash and starch Points 3 To make clean Plate 8 To Cure one who pisseth their Bed 22 Poultis for any Sore 39 Pin and Web in the Eye 43 Plague Sore 57 Plague and Pestilence ibid. Puff work 64 To make the Puffs 65 To acorn a Room with Prints 70 To dâ—ess up Gloss plates 72 Petticoats Bodice or Belts embroidered 81 To Pot Fowls 85 To stew Parsnips 90 Pigeon Pye very good 92 Loyn of Pork boiled 93 To bâ—ll green Pease 95 To preserve Green Pease a while p. 95 Pudding of cold Meat 98 Paste very rich and deâ—icate 120 R TO kill Rats p. 23 For Rheum in the Eyes 34 For the Rickets in Children 35 Rheum and Cough 39 Red-face 54 Red Beets dressed well 92 Rabbits stewed 94 Sirrop of Roses 107 S SWeet-meat of Grapes 123 Sirrop of Snails 118 Sweetmeat of Lettuce-stalks 117 To wash white Sarsnets 4 To wash black Sarsnets Silk-stockings and coloured Silks 6 To geâ— spots of Ink out of any linnen Cloth 7 Likewise stains of Fruit 7 Also greasie spots out of Silk Stuff or Cloth 8 For the Stone and Choller 32 For the Stone 36 Sinew-strain 45 Shingles 47 Scabbed head 51 Scurvy 53 Squinancy or Sore-throas 54 To stain Satten 66 To starch Tiffany 1 T TO keep the Teeth clean and sound p. 10 To cure a Timpany 30 Thistolow water 31 33 Tooth-ach 44 Thrush in the mouth ibid. Transparent work 62 Colours for it ib. More Colours for it 63 64 A Toy to catch Flies 125 V TO stew Veal savourly p. 88 Sirrop of Violets 106 W FOr VVorms a miraculous Cure p. 19 For Worms in Children 57 Worms in the Nose 58 in the Chest ibid. Work for Chairs 77 78 To make Wax work 182 To make the moulds for it 184 To make the likeness of many things in Wax without the help of a Mould 185 To take the shape of your own hand 186 To take the face of a dead Body 187 For Eggs to be hard and cut in quarters ibid. Colours for Wax-work 189 190 191 To make Spanish white 192 LETTERS FRom a Sister to a Brother far distant from her pag 1â—9 From a Daughter to he Mother 150 From a Mother to a Daughter in a Ladies Service 151 The Answer 152 From a Sister to a Brother 153 From one Friend to another 158 The Answer 156 From one Sister to another 156 From a Lady to a Gentlewoman whom she hath a Kindness for 157 The Answer 155 From a Wife to her Husband craving his pardon c. 160 From an Aunt to her Neece 161 The Answer 162 From a Widow to her Friend desiring her Assistance 163 The Answer 164 From a Woman in Prison â—o her Friend to help her 165 The Answer ibid. From a Seamans Wife to her Husband 166 From a Servant to her Mistriss concerning her Charge 166 A Letter of Complement from one Friend to another 167 The Answer 168 From a Mother to a Daughter who had gone astray from her 169 The Daughters Answer to her Mother 170 A Letter from a Gentleman to a Relaâ—ion of his c 172 The Ladies Answer 17â— From a Gentlewoman to her Father 175 From a Gentlewoman to her Vncle 176 From a Widow to her Landlord 177 From a Gentlewoman to her Brother at Oxford 177 From a Gentlewoman in Answer to aâ— Leâ—ter from a Gentleman who Courted her 178 Another Letter from a Gentlewoman to one who Courted her for his Mistress 181 The Cause why good Children or the Children of worthy Parents are off-times in a distressed condition 135 The Cause why others do commonly run into mischief and wickedness 138 Advice to Parents concerning their Children and Advice to Children concerning their Parents 141 Directions for the more curious working and adorning of the Images of the Poetical Gods and Goddesies p. 193 194 195 196 Also for the better Drawing of the Months of the Year 197 198 199 AN Advertisment IF any Person desire to speak with me they may find me at Mr. Richard Wolleys House in the Old-Baily in Golden Cup Court He is Master of Arts and Reader at St. Martins Ludgate They may have of me several Remedies for several Distempers at reasonable Rates Likewise If any Gentlewomen or other Maids who desire to go forth to Service and do want Accomplishment for the same For a reasonable Gratuity I shall inform them stone and keep them all the time from the Air for that will spoil them Then make your starch of a reasonable thickness and blew it according to your liking and to a quarter of a pound of Starch put as much Allom as an Hasel Nut boyl it very well and strain it and while it is hot wet your Tiffanies with it very well and lay them in a Cloth to keep them from drying then wash your hands clean and dry them then hold your Tiffanies to a good fire till they be through hot then clap them and rub them between your hands from the fire till you see they be very clear then shape them by a piece of Paper cut out by them before they were washed and iron them with a good hot Iron and then they will look glossie like new Tiffany Thus you may starch Lawns but observe to iron them on the wrong side and upon a Cloth wetted and wrung out again Sometimes if you please instead of Starch you may lay Gum-Arabick in water and when it is dissolved wet your Lawns in that instead of Starch and hold them to the fire as before directed clapping them and rubbing them till they are very cleer To make clean Points or Laces Take white Bread of half a day old and cut it in the middle and pare the
Children who have Parents living observe your Duty to them and whatsoever they Command you do and God will bless you the better for he hath Commanded you to Honour your Father and Mother If they do Chide you bear it patiently and do not provoke them to continue their Anger by unreverent Answers but be silent and submissive to them Be careful of your time when you Learn any thing and do not let the Mony which they are willing to disburse for you be lost through your Idleness Observe every one how they do order their Houses and how they do make this or that and what you cannot remember that write down that it may stead you another time Be careful of your Parents when they are Sick and reverence them when they are Aged Burthen them not when you come to be of Age of Discretion but think with your self how or which way to case them Take heed what Company you keep for fear they corrupt you and draw you into mischief Go not from your Parents without their leave least you grieve them and bring a Curse upon your selves by Disobeying them Depend on no Friends but trust in him who is able always to provide for you and that will never fail those who wait upon him patiently without distrust he is never weary of hearing the complaint of the Widow and Fatherless nor of any who are in Distress On the other side do not neglect or slight your Friends but shew your duty to them in your respects and give ear to their good Counsel When you are absent from your Parents be sure to Write to them so often as need shall require and let not what you Write be impertinent and troublesome If God hath blest you with a good Lady or Mistress be you observing alwaies what may please her and be humble and modest in your Behaviour be neat and Houswifely in your Cloaths and lay up what Mony can handsomly be spared Be careful of what she gives you or what you have in your Charge that by so doing you may oblige her to be loving and kind to you and cause her to speak well of you Do not keep familiarity with any but those by whom you may improve your time If you be an Apprentice be careful that you learn your Trade well that you may live another day and let not the Mony your Parent or Friends gave for your good be thrown away by your Neglect and Carelesness If God hath blest you with a Fortune be careful to improve it and trust not too much upon it Never consent to Marry with any man without your Parents or Friends Consent least you be the Cause of their Grief and Sorrow and bring your self to Affliction and Misery All you who have any Young Maidens or Gentlewomen under your Charge or Tuition be you alwaies mindful of their Good as well as your own If they are put to School to you or Apprentices let them not lose their Youthful time which cannot be redeemed but keep them strictly to their Duty in a loving and mild way If they come as Servants to you for Wages be not cruel to them in severe Language nor impose more upon them than they shall be able to perform nor pinch them in their Diet but allow them such Food as is convenient for them When they do their Duty to you be you pleased to encourage them by giving them good words and bestow some small Favour on them Advise them how to lay out their Mony and never to spend all but keep some for a reserve Let them go decently not vainly and proudly and command them duly to the Service of God I think I have spoken sufficiently â—o all I mentioned and as I mean well so I hope you will all of you â—ake it well With this my advice â— vvish you the Blessing of GOD and do desire the same from you upon my self which is all the Gratification I do desire or expect from you Be pleased to take notice that in my Book The Ladies Guide I did give direction for the Writing of Letters but it was only to such as were Young and to Servants I think it not amiss to give some Forms or Patterns of Letters for Elder and more-serious people for I do daily find that in Writing most Women are to seek They many times spend their time in Learning a good Hand but their English and Language is The one not easie to understand The other weak and impertinent I meet with Letters my self sometimes that I could even tear them as I read them they are so full of impertinency and so tedious I will begin with one of them not that you should take example by it to do the same but I set it as a thing to be abhorr'd and shun'd From a Sister to a Brother far distant from her Dear Brother MY love remembred unto you hoping that you are in good health as I am at the writing hereof praised be God I hope you got well to your Journeys end I pray let us know My Father and my Mother do remember their Love to you and my Sister Betty remembers her Love to you and my Brother John and my Brother Nicholas do so too and my Couzin Jane is Married and she doth remember her Love to you and her Husband remembers his Love to you and says he would be glad to see you and to be acquainted with you My Couzin Robin remembers his Love to you and my Couzin Nan remembers her Love to you and I remember my Love to you So I rest Your loving Sister till death Elizabeth Spanner You see in this Letter how ridiculous it is to Write after this manner the language being both impertinent and foolish Give me leave now to shew you what ill English is and tell me which is worst for I do not yet know From a Daughter to her Mother Dear Mother MY duty remembred unto you hopping that you are in good helth as i am at the Riting hereof prased be God this is to let you understand that i have receved the things you sent to me by Tomas Frenge and he had a grot of me for the bringing them i pray do not forget my Come I left in the Kichen windo and my Aporn in the Chamber pray send them al to me i hop my Father is wel and my brother Ned and my suster Joice and i hop godie welsh is wel thus with my love and duty to you i rest your dutiful daster Ann Blackwell Now I have shewed you how ridiculous and simple and how impertinent these are I will also shew you how to Write that it may be effectual in what you shall desire and also acceptable to those you Write to You shall find here Letters upon all Occasions which commonly concern us and some others which accidentally may happen Observe that you are not to Write word for word but to take the manner of the Form it will teach you
and by so doing you may save your Purse and keep your Secrets to your self Take notice that those Letters I shall write as from People well knowing is not to teach them how to Write but to teach you how to Answer them From a Mother to a Daughter in a Ladies Service Dear Child I Do desire to know how you do in your Service and whether or no you think you shall be able to perform what you have undertaken however I command you to be very diligent to please that you may by that oblige your Lady to be kind to you and willing to keep you Be careful to serve God and be pleasing in your Carriage to all People So soon as I know you shall stay I will send your Trunck and other things Thus with your Fathers and my Blessing to you and your Brothers and Sisters Love I rest Your careful and loving Mother Sarah Wild. March 3. 1663. The Answer Most Dear and Honoured Mother I Received yours dated March the third and do give you humble thanks for your Motherly Care of me I have not yet been long enough to give you a full account how my Lady will like me I hope well because as yet she finds little or no fault with me I beseech you to assure your self that if I should be turned home to you again it shall be for what I cannot do not what I will not do but I hope better things and I will stay here if it be possible for it is a worthy Family and they are very kind to me My Lady likes my Dressing very well and also what I Starch but she would fain have me more curious in my Point-Work She will not let me wash her Chamber because I should not spoil my Hands for Work If she like me well I shall be glad for I like her Service very well Thus with my humble Duty presented to you and to my Father with my Love to my Brothers and Sisters and to all my Friends I take my leave and do beseech you to esteem me as I endeavour to be Dear Mother Your most Obedient Daughter Mary Wild March 10. 1663. From a Sister to a Brother Dear Brother YOur absence at first caused much Grief both to our Parents and to us your loving Brothers and Sisters but since we hear of your welfare and very good liking we are as much joyed and do heartily wish and pray for the continuance of the same We want the comfort of your Company but we cannot live by sight of each other This is a miserable World and every one must be Careful and Industrious or else it is impossible to wade the Troubles which it brings people in We are happy in our Parents that they took such good Care for us in our Education to make us able to live in the World I thank God I am in a very good Place where I have the Love and good word of the People I serve I do not doubt but to gain it more and more My Mother as well as my Father Commanded me to write to you and to let you know their Indisposition or else my Father would have Written to you himself He hath been ill of the Gout and my Mother of an Ague but I hope they will both do very well again My Brother James hath also hurt his Side by a Fall but he is on the mending hand Thus with my Fathers and Mothers Blessing to you with mine my Brothers and Sisters Love to you I rest Dear Brother Your ever affectionate Sister Martha Hopewell Decemb. 4. 1665. From one Friend to another Honoured Friend I Have written to you several times to let you know what I have done concerning the Business you were pleased to intrust me withal but hearing no Answer I fear my Letters have miscarried This is now again to give you an account of what I have done So soon as your Letter of commands came to my Hands I went streight to Mr. Shewer and demanded your Mony delivering the Letter of Attorney you sent to peruse that he might know the truth but he willing to while-off told me that he would pay it to you so soon as he could see you and speak with you about some Business which concerns your good If he keep his Word it will do very well I was also with Mrs. Madewell and she hath paid me also with Mr. Stockwell and he hath also paid me I pray do me the favour as to see my little Girl for me and know what Nurse wants and I will send it down I shall trouble you no more at this present save only with the Service and Respects of Your most affectionate Kinswoman and humble Servant Ann Boarman Novemb. 2. 1667. The Answer Dear Friend I Received yours wherein you have given me full satisfaction concerning what I desired you for which I most humbly thank you and do desire you will be pleased to accept this Token from me I wish it were better but I know your Temper so well that your Eye will not be over-curious with me nor mind the Gift more than the Giver but take all in good part I have seen your little one which is in good health Nurse wants nothing as yet All our Friends here are well and desire you to accept their Love and Service Thus with mine in particular to you I rest Your ever obliged Friend and devoted Servant J. M. Novemb. 2. 1667. From one Sister to another Dear Sister I Am very glad to hear you do so well and that you have recovered your Health again I pray God continue it to you My Mother remembers her Love and Blessing to you and desires you will send her the Receipt for the Stone for she hath great need of it both for her self and others She desires to know when you think you shall come to Town I am in a little haste and nought else at present but my dear Love and Respects to you and to tell you that I am and ever will be Dear Sister Yours ever to love and serve you Mary South Decemb. 6. 1664. From a Lady to a Gentlewoman whom she hath a kindness for My dear Friend YOur Humility commands what Favour lies in my power to do for you or yours therefore if you can condescend that your Daughter shall be a Servant to me you shall find that I will be more a Mother than a Mistress to her I doubt not of her Abilities since I know your care hath been very much for her Education However I may find her not at present altogether fit for my Service yet I am confident she will be capable that I do intend her good and in relation to that I know she will endeavour to please me or else she must not be your Daughter Fear nothing in me I value your worth and shall also value your Child and what is wanting in her I shall not spare my Purse to give a full Accomplishment to her therefore if you
please to send her speedily it will be very well because at this time I am destitute yet I might have the Choice of many Accomplisht Women were it not a particular Kindness I have to you that causes me to refuse them I desire you will let her be handsomly Cloathed for your Credits sake which if you lack Mony to do it let me know and I will soon furnish you Thus desiring you not to delay I remain Your Friend to love and serve you M. C. The Answer Madam YOu have so much obliged me by your goodness and Charity towards me and my poor Child that we are even transported with joy Poor Girl she sleeps not in the night least any thing should happen to hinder her coming to you Her Cloaths are making but indeed I have not wherewith to pay for them nor to provide other things which she very much wants therefore since it is your Ladyships pleasure to send me Mony I beseech you it may be speedily and so soon as her Cloaths are finished and other things bought she shall tender her Duty and Service to you and I will give her the best Instructions I can I hope she will not be refractory to her Duty but strive to be a good and faithful Servant yet if she should have any Childish faults I beseech you be pleased to let me know that I may rebuke her for them Be pleased to accept of my humble Service and to believe that I am Madam The most humble of your poor Servants C. H. From a Wife to her Husband Craving his pardon for her long absence from him Dear Heart WHen you gave me leave for my Journey I did intend no other but to Return according to your Order but the much Kindness and Intreaty for my stay together with the late very ill Weather hath caused me to transgress my bounds which I do wholly trust to your Goodness to pardon and do the more hope for it because it is the first time I ever offended you in this Nature I do desire you will please to let me know how you and my Children do and whether our Servant doth her Duty likewise how our little one at Nurse doth And I desire you also to send me some Mony speedily to bear my Charges to you This is all at present save only the Love and Duty of Your most obedient and loving Wife E. D. From an Aunt to her Neece Dear Neece YOur Parents being Dead I would have you take notice that I shall take Care of you therefore do not think your self destitute in the World On the other side I would have you endeavour what you can for your self in an honest way but want nothing that is fitting for you Let me know at any time what you would have and I shall furnish you either with Mony or with Necessaries Be careful you do not consent to Marry with any Man without my leave for fear you make your self Unhappy I have sent you a Bible and twenty shillings in Mony by the Carryer I pray let me know if you have received it or no. Be careful in the first place to serve God and to please those whom you serve and you shall never be forgotten by Your most Affectionate Aunt M. C. The Answer Honoured Aunt I Never doubted of your Kindness but could not have expected so much as you are pleased to shew me because I know I have never deserved it But since I know your Care for me I do assure you that it shall cause me to be more careful of my self I have received the Mony and the Bible and do give you most humble and hearty Thanks for them My Lady finds little or no fault with me therefore I presume I do please her I have not an overstock of Cloaths neither can I complain of much want yet if I had a new and fashionable Gown it would do me Credit I have somewhat towards it and if you please to make it up I shall be the more bound to pray for you because no Body is now esteemed without fine Cloaths For my Marrying with any one without your Consent I shall not be so mad neither do I think any man will as yet be troubled with me When you think it is time I had rather take your Choice than my own In the mean time I shall endeavour only to perform what I am obliged to and to shew my Duty to you Thus with the tender of my humblest Respects and Service I take leave humbly and remain Dear Aunt Your most obliged Niece and most humble Servant E. C. From a Widow to her Friend desiring her Assistance Dear Friend I Stile you as I have alwaies found you But now is the only trial of a Friend in this my necessity It is not unknown to you the Charge which I have now upon me and the many Troubles I am involved in my Husband having had a long time of Sickness and died in Debt so that I have little or no Comfort in my life Yet if I had a Stock to begin I could set up my own Trade and live very well but who to ask besides your self I do not know and how to ask you I cannot tell having already been so much obliged to you yet my Necessity enforces me to crave this one Favour from you That you will please to lend to me 10 l. for the space of one whole year and I will faithfully return it again with many Thanks This if you will please to do will give a new Life to Your most faithful Friend to love and serve you The Answer Dear Friend I Am very sorry for the occasion of your sad Letter and shall not deny your Request in hopes that the grant thereof may make you happy yet I do assure you that were it any one else who did sue to me upon such an account I would deny them for the World is so base and Mony so hard to come by that there is hardly any that will let Mony go out of their hands I shall freely lend you so much and for a longer time than you do propound but I would sain speak with you first and advise you in your Way Therefore do not delay the time but come as soon as possible you can and you shall find me then and for ever Your most faithful Friend and ready to serve you From a Woman in Prison to her Friend to help her Dear Friend I Suppose you have heard how wrongfully I have been dealt with since my Husbands departure how they have accused me of what I was never guilty of and cast me in Prison to my great Discredit Charge and Detriment in the World I do desire that loving favour of you as to come and see me and to lend me a small sum towards the defraying of my Charges here and then I make no doubt but I shall get quickly quit of this place Dear Friend Have pity on me and if it ever lie in my
power I will restore you Seven-fold Thus with my due Respects to you desiring speedily to hear from you I rest Your true Friend and Servant The Answer Dear Friend I Am extream sorry for your Trouble and do verily believe that you are much wronged therefore I shall assist you in what I can I have some business to dispatch this Week of great concern which will keep me in but upon Monday next God willing I do intend to be with you and answer your desires In the mean time I desire you to comfort your self and to be assured that I am Your loving Friend to serve you From a Seamans Wife to her Husband Dear Husband SInce your departure our little Boy is dead of the Small-Pox and our Girl hath been ill too but now I thank God she is reasonable well again I desire you will remember to bring me home some fine things for my House Edward Long also desires that you will not forget what he spake to you for as also Mrs. Chappel We are very glad for your safe Arrival and wish you a speedy and safe return but especially Your poor but loving Wife From a Servant to her Mistriss concerning her Charge Madam YOur sweet Children I thank God are all very well but think long for your coming home I have spoken with your Tenant Goodman Porter and he desires you should know that the Mony shall be ready for you at your Return but as for the Widow Totnham she hath had a great Loss lately therefore she desires your Patience yet a while I have no more at this time but the tender of my Duty and Service beseeching you to believe that I am Your obedient Servant A Letter of Complement from one Friend to another Honoured Friend THe last time I saw you you laid on me such an obligation of Kindness as I fear I shall never be able to Requite but I will endeavor what possible I can I wish you would do me the Favour as to lay your Commands on me then I should give you some proof of my Gratitude and I know you are so good as that you will accept the Will for the Deed. I desire you will please when you have a leisure time to Honour me with your Company of which I shall be proud as well as happy and I presume our Air would do no harm but rather good you also add to the Favour if you please to let me know a little before that I may meet you some part of the way Your God-son is very well but is not able as yet to shew his Duty to you I desire you will please to bring little Miss with you and then I shall hope to enjoy your Company the longer for I know you cannot be without her many daies If you please to grant this you will oblige her who is and ever will be Your most humble Servant The Ladies Answer Madam ALL that I have ever done and can imagine to do cannot merit the least of your expressions which if I did not believe to be Realities I should wrong you much for I am very well acquainted with your temper For your desire of my coming to wait on you I do assure you you might have spared your Invitation for I did intend to come however and seeing it is your desire that Miss should come too she shall wait on you with me I cannot tell what day I shall come as yet neither am I willing to tell you if I could because your free and noble heart will be apt to transgress the bounds of my desires else I should be very glad you should be satisfied when I would come Sometime within this fortnight I shall not fail you in the mean time these are to let you know that I am and ever will be Your truly devoted and humble Servant A Letter from a Mother to a Daughter who had gone astray from her Susanna I Could never have believed I had had so wicked a Child as you have proved your self in your late Actions You have not only afflicted me but utterly ruin'd your self your Person and your Credit for ever Had your Dear Father lived you never durst have offered to think upon such Wickedness His Severity kept you in awe but my Indulgence hath spoiled you What Cause had you justly to leave me I cannot tell nor imagine any but only that bad Company which I have often gave you warning of I believe hath enticed you You are my Child still though never so bad and I your Mother and if I thought you would be reclaimed I would freely forgive you all that is past for my heart still yearns upon you but if you resolve to go on in Wickedness think not of coming near me Therefore bethink your self speedily and let me know what you intend to do I am yet Your very loving though very much afflicted Mother E. H. The Daughters Answer to her Mother Dear and Honoured Mother GOD forbid that your Indulgence to me should be the Cause of my Miscarriage I do confess my Fault and most humbly crave your pardon which I desire I may be assured of before I do return to you else I know not with what face I shall look upon you You are not at all deceived It was that ill Company you warned me from which did entice me upon pretence of going only to make Merry but after I was gone from you I soon perceived they would have quite ruin'd me and I fear you do believe they have in part done so but I do assure you that no harm hath hapned to me save your just displeasure for my coming away and the discredit I have gotten by so doing I staied not in their Company after I found out their design but gat me from them unawares and would willingly have returned home if I durst Therefore be pleased to quiet your Thoughts and do not think your Child is a Strumpet although she hath done foolishly If you please to receive me again and freely to pardon me you shall find that I will strive alwaies to shun the occasion of Evil and ever be truly careful to obey you in all things Therefore Dear Mother forgive your poor unworthy Child and she will be alwaies bound to pray for you and ever be Your obedient Daughter M. H. A Letter from a Gentleman to a Relation of his wherein he doth advertise her of some Accusations laid against her Madam I Chanced not long since to be in some Company who methought did take a great deal of liberty to speak of you and indeed their language was such as I held it more wisdom to employ my self in a Book which lay by me than to seem to observe or to participate with them I assure you I minded not the Romance that was before me but wholly employed my Ears to bring me if possible what the drift and what the occasion was of their Discourse but instead of satisfaction they created in me a multitude