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PREFACE.
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HE following Hiſtory is given in a Series of Letters, written principally in a double, yet ſeparate, Correſpondence;
Between Two young Ladies of Virtue and Honour, bearing an inviolable Friendſhip for each other, and writing upon the moſt intereſting Subjects: And
Between Two Gentlemen of free Lives; one of them glorying in his Talents for Stratagem and Invention, and communicating to the other, in Confidence, all the ſecret Purpoſes of an intriguing Head, and reſolute Heart.
But it is not amiſs to premiſe, for the ſake of ſuch as may apprehend Hurt to the Morals of Youth from the more freely-written
A 2
Letters,
