Produced by Michael Roe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS. (Price One Shilling and Six-Pence) AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS. In which, the many notorious FALSHOODS and MISREPRSENTATIONS of a Book called _PAMELA_, Are exposed and refuted; and all the matchless ARTS of that young Politician, set in a true and just Light. Together with A full Account of all that passed between her and Parson _Arthur Williams_; whose Character is represented in a manner something different from that which he bears in _PAMELA_. The whole being exact Copies of authentick Papers delivered to the Editor. Necessary to be had in all FAMILIES. By Mr. _CONNY KEYBER_. _LONDON_: Printed for A. Dodd, at the _Peacock_, without _Temple-bar_. M. DCC. XLI. [Illustration] To Miss _Fanny_, _&c._ MADAM, It will be naturally expected, that when I write the Life of _Shamela_, I should dedicate it to some young Lady, whose Wit and Beauty might be the proper Subject of a Comparison with the Heroine of my Piece. This, those, who see I have done it in prefixing your Name to my Work, will much more confirmedly expect me to do; and, indeed, your Character would enable me to run some Length into a Parallel, tho' you, nor any one else, are at all like the matchless _Shamela_. You see, Madam, I have some Value for your Good-nature, when in a Dedication, which is properly a Panegyrick, I speak against, not for you; but I remember it is a Life which I am presenting you, and why should I expose my Veracity to any Hazard in the Front of the Work, considering what I have done in the Body. Indeed, I wish it was possible to write a Dedication, and get any thing by it, without one Word of Flattery; but since it is not, come on, and I hope to shew my Delicacy at least in the Compliments I intend to pay you. _First_, then, Madam, I must tell the World, that you have tickled up and brightned many Strokes in this Work by your Pencil. _Secondly_, You have intimately conversed with me, one of the greatest Wits and Scholars of my Age. _Thirdly_, You keep very good Hours, and frequently spend an useful Day before others begin to enjoy it. This I will take my Oath on; for I am admitted to your Presence in a Morning before other People's Servants are up; when I have constantly found you reading in good Books; and if ever I have drawn you upon me, I have always felt you very heavy. _Fourthly_, You have a Virtue which enables you to rise early and study hard, and that is, forbearing to over-eat yourself, and this in spite of all the luscious Temptations of Puddings and Custards, exciting the Brute (as Dr. _Woodward_ calls it) to rebel. This is a Virtue which I can greatly admire, though I much question whether I could imitate it.