But unable to live without me, as my return, (after having given me over for loſt,) I ſuppoſe, rendered me dearer to her; —ſhe requeſted the gentleman, to permit me to come to her; and they, ever generous, and ever humane, kindly permitted me to do ſo, after I had been near eleven months in the houſe: which I left with regret, as the place of my reſtoration and recovery to all things deſirable: and I now live with my mother, ſtudious only to make her happy, and to wipe off all paſt ſtains, as much as I may, by the moſt exact diſcharge of every duty. While my conſtant endeavour is and ſhall be to inſtill into my poor unhappy child’s mind, ſuch principles of religion and virtue as I am well ſatisfied, would have preſerved me from the diſtreſs into which I fell, had I been ſo happy as to have known them before that fall.
The Fatal effects of Guilty Love.
BEAUTY, tho’ the gift of heav’n,
How fatal to the fair!
Ye maids! attend to Sally’s tale,
And of her fate beware.
Sweet Sally, of her friends the boaſt,
A child of pious vows,
In youth to guilty love betray’d:
Sad ſource of all her woes!
