_Fifthly_, A Circumstance greatly to your Honour, that by means of your extraordinary Merit and Beauty; you was carried into the Ball-Room at the _Bath_, by the discerning Mr. _Nash_; before the Age that other young Ladies generally arrived at that Honour, and while your Mamma herself existed in her perfect Bloom. Here you was observed in Dancing to balance your Body exactly, and to weigh every Motion with the exact and equal Measure of Time and Tune; and though you sometimes made a false Step, by leaning too much to one Side; yet every body said you would one time or other, dance perfectly well, and uprightly. _Sixthly_, I cannot forbear mentioning those pretty little Sonnets, and sprightly Compositions, which though they came from you with so much Ease, might be mentioned to the Praise of a great or grave Character. And now, Madam, I have done with you; it only remains to pay my Acknowledgments to an Author, whose Stile I have exactly followed in this Life, it being the properest for Biography. The Reader, I believe, easily guesses, I mean _Euclid's Elements_; it was _Euclid_ who taught me to write. It is you, Madam, who pay me for Writing. Therefore I am to both, _A most Obedient, and_ _obliged humble Servant_, Conny Keyber. [Illustration] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The EDITOR to _Himself_. _Dear SIR_, However you came by the excellent _Shamela_, out with it, without Fear or Favour, Dedication and all; believe me, it will go through many Editions, be translated into all Languages, read in all Nations and Ages, and to say a bold Word, it will do more good than the _C----y_ have done harm in the World, _I am, Sir,_ _Sincerely your Well-wisher_, Yourself. [Illustration] JOHN PUFF, _Esq; to the_ EDITOR. _SIR_, I have read your _Shamela_ through and through, and a most inimitable Performance it is. Who is he, what is he that could write so excellent a Book? he must be doubtless most agreeable to the Age, and to _his Honour_ himself; for he is able to draw every thing to Perfection but Virtue. Whoever the Author be, he hath one of the worst and most fashionable Hearts in the World, and I would recommend to him, in his next Performance, to undertake the Life of _his Honour_. For he who drew the Character of Parson _Williams_, is equal to the Task; nay he seems to have little more to do than to pull off the Parson's Gown, and _that_ which makes him so agreeable to _Shamela_, and the Cap will fit. _I am, Sir,_ _Your humble Servant_, JOHN PUFF. _Note_, Reader, several other COMMENDATORY LETTERS and COPIES OF VERSES will be prepared against the NEXT EDITION. [Illustration] [Illustration] AN APOLOGY For the LIFE of Mrs. SHAMELA ANDREWS. _Parson_ TICKLETEXT _to Parson_ OLIVER. _Rev. SIR_,