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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
I met the other day with a pretty Letter of our Poet WALLER to the Lady Sidney , on the marriage of her sister ; which gave me great entertainment , and will , I dare say , please some , perhaps many of your Readers . It is written in an elegant stile , and they must desire to bear the thoughts of so celebrated an author on this curious subject . If his poetry is excellent , his prose is beautiful . Tlftts much by way of introduction to the letter which follows without any material alteration . No more need be added , except my hearty wish to see it inserted , lamyoursy & c .
July ij , 1795 . T . S . To MY LADY LUCY SIDNEY , UPON THE MARRIAGE OF MY LADY DOROTHY HER SISTER TO MY LORD SPENCER . MADAM , TTN the common joy at Penshurst * I know none to whom complaints Jjmay come less unseasonable than to your ladyship ; the loss of a
_ feed-fellow being almost equal to that of a mistress : and therefore you ought , at least , " to pardon , if you consent not to , the imprecations of the deserted ; which j ust heaven no doubt will hear ! May my Lady Dorothy ( if we may yet call her so ) suffer as much , and have the like passion for this young lord , whom she has preferred to the rest of mankindas others have had for her : and may this love
, before the year go about , make her taste of the first curse imposed on . woman-kind—the pains of becoming a mother ! May her ' first- ' horn be none of her own sex , nor so like her but that he may resemble her lord as much as herself ! May she that always affected silence and retiredness , have the house filled with the noise and number of her children ; and hereafter
of her grand-children ! And then may she arrive at that great curse so much declined by fair ladies—old age ! May she live to be very old , and yet seem young ; be told so by her g lass ancl have no aches to inform her of the truth ! And when she shall appear to be mortal , may her lord not mourn for her , but go hand in hand with her to thai place where , we are told . There is neither marrying tior giving in marriage , . that being there divorced we may have all an equal interest in her again ! My revenge being immortal , I wish all this may also befal their posterity to the world ' s end and afterwards !
To you , madam , I wish all good things ; and that this loss . may in good time be happily supply'd with a more constant bed-fellow of the other sex . Madam , I humbly kiss your hands , and beg pardon for this trouble , from your ladyship ' s most humble servant , ' ¦ ' EDMOND WALLER
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
I met the other day with a pretty Letter of our Poet WALLER to the Lady Sidney , on the marriage of her sister ; which gave me great entertainment , and will , I dare say , please some , perhaps many of your Readers . It is written in an elegant stile , and they must desire to bear the thoughts of so celebrated an author on this curious subject . If his poetry is excellent , his prose is beautiful . Tlftts much by way of introduction to the letter which follows without any material alteration . No more need be added , except my hearty wish to see it inserted , lamyoursy & c .
July ij , 1795 . T . S . To MY LADY LUCY SIDNEY , UPON THE MARRIAGE OF MY LADY DOROTHY HER SISTER TO MY LORD SPENCER . MADAM , TTN the common joy at Penshurst * I know none to whom complaints Jjmay come less unseasonable than to your ladyship ; the loss of a
_ feed-fellow being almost equal to that of a mistress : and therefore you ought , at least , " to pardon , if you consent not to , the imprecations of the deserted ; which j ust heaven no doubt will hear ! May my Lady Dorothy ( if we may yet call her so ) suffer as much , and have the like passion for this young lord , whom she has preferred to the rest of mankindas others have had for her : and may this love
, before the year go about , make her taste of the first curse imposed on . woman-kind—the pains of becoming a mother ! May her ' first- ' horn be none of her own sex , nor so like her but that he may resemble her lord as much as herself ! May she that always affected silence and retiredness , have the house filled with the noise and number of her children ; and hereafter
of her grand-children ! And then may she arrive at that great curse so much declined by fair ladies—old age ! May she live to be very old , and yet seem young ; be told so by her g lass ancl have no aches to inform her of the truth ! And when she shall appear to be mortal , may her lord not mourn for her , but go hand in hand with her to thai place where , we are told . There is neither marrying tior giving in marriage , . that being there divorced we may have all an equal interest in her again ! My revenge being immortal , I wish all this may also befal their posterity to the world ' s end and afterwards !
To you , madam , I wish all good things ; and that this loss . may in good time be happily supply'd with a more constant bed-fellow of the other sex . Madam , I humbly kiss your hands , and beg pardon for this trouble , from your ladyship ' s most humble servant , ' ¦ ' EDMOND WALLER