To close all, if this _Proposal_ which is but a rough draught and rude Essay, and which might be made much more beautiful by a better Pen, give occasion to wiser heads to improve and perfect it, I have my end. For imperfect as it is, it seems so desirable, that she who drew the Scheme is full of hopes, it will not want kind hands to perform and compleat it. But if it miss of that, it is but a few hours thrown away, and a little labour in vain, which yet will not be lost, if what is here offer’d may serve to express her hearty Good-will, and how much she desires your Improvement, who is LADIES, _Your very humble Servant_. _FINIS._ Letters concerning the Love of GOD, between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr. _John Norris_; wherein his late Discourse, shewing that it ought to be intire and Exclusive of all other Loves, is farther clear’d and Justified, 8_vo._ Printed for _Richard Wilkin_. A Serious PROPOSAL TO THE LADIES, PART II: Wherein a Method is offer’d for the Improvement of their Minds. _LONDON_: Printed for _Richard Wilkin_ at the _King’s Head_ in St. _Paul_’s Church-yard, 1697. To her Royal Highness THE Princess _ANN_ of Denmark. MADAM, _What was at first address’d to the Ladies in_ General, _as seeming not considerable enough to appear in your Royal Highnesses Presence, not being ill receiv’d by them, and having got the Addition of a Second Part, now presumes on a more_ Particular _Application to Her who is the Principal of them, and whose Countenance and Example may reduce to Practice, what it can only Advise and Wish._ _And when I consider you Madam as a Princess who is sensible that the Chief Prerogative of the Great is the Power they have of doing more Good than those in an Inferior Station can, I see no cause to fear that your Royal Highness will deny Encouragement to that which has no other Design than the Bettering of the World, especially the most neglected part of it as to all Real Improvement, the Ladies. It is by the Exercise of this Power that Princes become truly Godlike, they are never so Illustrious as when they shine as Lights in the World by an Eminent and Heroic Vertue. A Vertue as much above Commendation as it is above Detraction, which fits equally Silent and Compos’d when Opprest with Praises or Pursu’d with Calumnys, is neither hurt by these nor better’d by the other; for the Service of_ GOD, _and the Resembling Him, being its only Aim, His Approbation in a soft and inward Whisper, is more than the loud_ Huzza’s _and Plaudits of ten thousand Worlds._