Think not that Pleasure lives with Pomp and State,
Or sooths the bosom of the rich and great;
Think not to meet her at the ball or play,
Where flirt the frolicksome, and haunt the gay;
Think not she flutters on the publick walk,
Or prompts the tongue that pours unmeaning talk ;
Or loves the breath of compliment to feel,
Or stamps on crowns her estimable seal.

True Female Pleasure, of more modest kind, Springs from the heart, and lives within the mind; From noisy mirth, and grandeur's route she flies, And in domestick duties wholly lies.

As fades the flower, that's rear'd with tender care,
When left expos'd to storms and chilling air;
So fades the fair, in reason's sober eye,

That braves the crowd, nor heeds the danger nigh;
Who giddy roves, with Folly's motley queen,

Nor loves the transports of a life serene.
Be thine the friendship of a chosen few,
To every virtue uniformly true;

Be thine the converse of some kindred mind,
Candid to all, but not to errours blind;
Prudent to check or warn unguarded youth,
And guide thy steps in innocence and truth.
Those who regard, will fulsome language waive;
And, in the friend sincere, forget the slave;
Will make, like me, your happiness its care,
Nor wink at specks, that render you less fair.

From books, too, draw much profit and delight,
At early morning, and at latest night;
But far, O far! from thy chaste eyes remove
'The bloated page, that paints licentious love;
That wakes the passions, but not mends the heart,
And only leads to infamy and art!

Let Addison's and Johnson's moral

page,

And Hawkesworth's pleasing style, thy hours engage.
From Milton feel the warm poetick fire,

Whom all the nymphs of Helicon inspire.
With Thomson, round the varied Seasons rove ;
His chaste ideas every heart improve.

Let tuneful Pope instruct you how to sing,
To frame the lay, and raise the trembling wing.

Such be thy joys; and through this varied life,
Whether a maid, a mother, or a wife;
May fair content for ever fill thy breast,
And not an anxious care disturb thy rest;
May love, the purest passion of the skies,
Play round thy heart, and sparkle in thine eyes;
May all thy worth be virtue's sweet reward,
And goodness, only, claim thy just regard.

FINIS.

PART I.

LETTERS ON BUSINESS.

LETTER to a young Trader, generally in a hurry of Bu-

siness, advising Method as well as Diligence

From a Father to a Son, on negligence in his affairs

The Son's grateful Answer

Recommending a Man Servant

The Answer

An urgent Demand of Payment

The Answer

From a young Person in trade to a wholesale Dealer,

who had suddenly made a demand on him

From a Tradesman to a Correspondent, requesting
the payment of a sum of Money

The Answer

From a young Person just out of his Apprenticeship,
to a Relation, requesting the loan of a sum of Mo-
ney

From a young Man who had an opportunity to set up

in business, but destitute of Money, to a Gentle-

man of reputed benevolence

The Gentleman's Answer

To an Acquaintance to borrow a sum of Money for

a little time

Page

An Answer to the foregoing

ibid

From a Tradesman in distressed circumstances, de-
siring a Letter of Licence

ibid

The Answer

36

The Answer

From an insolvent Debtor to his principal Creditor,

requesting the acceptance of a Composition

From a young man in the Country, to a Merchant in
Philadelphia, offering his Correspondence

The Merchant's Answer

From a young Man, whose Master had lately died

The Answer

ibid

37

ibid

ibid

38

ibid

From a Person who had met with a sudden affliction
in his Family, soliciting the loan of a sum of Mo-
ney

The Answer

From a Tradesman to a wholesale Dealer, to delay
payment of a sum of Money

The Answer

.

From a Servant of a wholesale Dealer to his Master
in Philadelphia, giving an account of his Customers
in the Country
From a Country Shopkeeper, to his Friend in New-
York, desiring him to send him some Goods

The Answer

-

From a Country Shopkeeper, to a Dealer in Philadel-
phia, complaining of the badness of his Goods

The Answer

From a Tenant to a Landlord, excusing delay of pay-

ment

The Answer

39
ibid

40

ibid

ibid

41

42

ibid

43

ibid

ibid

44

The Answer

ibid

Letter from Dr. Franklin to his Friend A. B. contain-
ing useful Hints to young Tradesmen

ibid

From a Country Farmer on the same occasion

FROM a young Gentleman to a young Lady, with whom

he is in Love

The young Lady's Answer

The Gentleman's Reply

From the young Gentleman's Mother to the young
Lady

The young Lady's Answer

The young Lady's Answer to her Lover

From the same

The young Gentleman's Answer

From the Lady after marriage, to her Cousin unmar-
ried

From a young Merchant in Philadelphia, to a Widow
Lady in the Country

The Lady's Letter to her Brother, concerning the
above

The Brother's Answer

From the Lady to Mr. Moreton

Six Letters between a Gentleman and Lady in Eng-
land

55

ibid

56

57 to 64

On Love and Friendship, from a Father to his Daugh-
ters

On the same subject

On Courtship and Coquettish Behaviour, from the

same

On the foregoing subject

On Marriage, from the same

On the same subject, in continuation

From a Gentleman to a Lady, professing an aversion
to tedious formality in Courtship

The Lady's Answer, encouraging a farther Declara-
tion

-

From the Gentleman to the Lady more openly declar-
ing his Passion

The Lady in Reply, putting the matter to a sudden
issue

Libid

82

ibid

From an Aunt to her Niece, who had given her a ludi-
crous account of a sober Lover

A Letter from Lady Wortley Montague, against a
Maxim of Mons. Rochefoucalt's, "That Marriages
are convenient, but never delightful"

83

84

To a very young Lady on her Marriage. By Dr. Swift 88
To the same Lady. By the same

To the same Lady. By the same

From a Daughter to her Father, wherein she dutifully
expostulates against a match he had proposed to her,
with a gentleman much older than herself

90

93

97

From a young Person in business to a Gentleman, de-
siring leave to wait on his Daughter

98

From a young Lady to her Father, acquainting him
with a Proposal of Marriage made her
The Father's Answer to the Daughter

ibid

99

From a young Lady's Friend to a disagreeable Suitor 100
From a Lady to a Gentleman who had obtained all her
Friends' consent, urging him to decline his suit to
her