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INST.755.005
1 May 1755:35,36 (1/9)
Tears an Infallible Method to Conquer the Fair Sex.
I am afraid my readers (if indeed I have any) will hardly
perceive, without this information, that I propose treading
in the steps of the immortal Addison; . . . [10 lines]
Tho' I am an enemy to egotism, thus much I thought
necessary to say of myself and my design; but I shall now,
without any more of this preface, which, like Bays's
Prologue, might have serv'd for any other as well as this,
fall into my subject at once, and direct my discourse to the
ladies, whom I have very much at heart, and whom I shall
frequently make my care; for (to use the words of that
villain Lovelace, in the worthiest sense) most 'dearly do I
love the sweet creatures.' . . .
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