First then, as _Editor_, you launch forth into all the extravagant Praises that ever could enter the Heart of a young Author, before his first favourite Performance was condemn'd by the Public. In this Disguise you take a full Aim, and by presenting your Readers with a _Prologue_ to your own _Praise_, you would _prepossess_ them with _Applause_, and fondly _surfeit_ on the _Eccho_. The many Eulogia in your Preface stated with Ifs, and artfully in the Conclusion bestowed on _Pamela_ are but an Abstract of what fulsome Praises an Author wou'd privately entertain himself with, or indeed look like what the Booksellers are very often forced to say to make a bad Copy go off. However they may tickle the Ears, they can never charm the Sense, and in plain English may be render'd thus: "_I the Editor_ tell you and command you to believe, that this Book, called _Pamela_, will _divert_, _entertain_, _instruct_, and _improve_ the _Youth of both Sexes_. "It is the best System of _Religion_ and _Morality_ extant, _delightful_ and _profitable_ to the _younger Class_ of Readers, as well as those of _maturer Years_ and Understanding. "All the _social Duties_ in high and low Life, are set forth in the most exemplary Lights. _Vice_ is made _odious_, _Virtue_ truely _lovely_; the Characters _justly_ drawn, and _equally_ supported; the _Man_ of _Fortune_, _Passion_, or _Intrigue_ rightly instructed; practical _Examples_ given to the Ladies in the most critical and affecting Cases, either of _Virgin_, _Bride_, or _Wife_: These represented in so _lively_ a Manner, that the Passions of every _sensible_ Reader must be affected; and his that are not, _I pronounce_ him a _Fool_. Yet though the Passions are so much touched, there is not a _single Idea_ throughout the _Whole_ that shall shock the _exactest Purity_, nor shall a Lady be put to the Blush, even where she may very naturally expect it. "Besides all this, believe me, Sirs, 'tis every Word _true_; nor do I at all doubt the Success of the Sale; because I confidently _assert_, that all the _desireable Ends_ are _obtained in these Sheets_; and if any one should dispute it, I will convince him by two incontestable Proofs. First, that I know from MY OWN Passions, that I never perused these engaging Scenes without being uncommonly _moved_: And, for that Reason, I insist upon it, that every Man who reads them must be the same: And next, that I, as an _Editor_, judge with more Impartiality than an _Author_ can do."