This Compliment was a little of the grossest for a fine Gentleman! But the Heightening is still behind: After some little tart Repartees and Sallies aiming at Wit, the Author seems to indulge his Genius with all the Rapture of lascivious Ingenuity: _p._ 84, 85. 'I wish, said he, (I'am almost ashamed to write it, _impudent Gentleman_) I wish, I had thee as QUICK ANOTHER WAY, as thou art in thy Repartees.----And he laugh'd, and I snatch'd my Hands from him, and I tripp'd away as fast I could. _Ah! thought I marry'd?_ I'm sure _'tis Time you were married_, or at this Rate no honest Maiden ought to live with you!' Here's Virtue encouraged with a Vengeance and the most obscene Idea express'd by a double Entendre, which falls little short of the coarsest Ribaldry; yet _Pamela_ is designed to _mend_ the _Taste_ and _Manners_ of the Times, and _instruct_ and _encourage Youth in Virtue_; if that were the Case there was no absolute Necessity in my Opinion for the inserting of this Passage. How artfully is the Turn of the Entendre wrought up for the INSTRUCTION of both _Sexes_. The young Gentleman will find the Squir's Wish to be, that his beloved _Pamela_ would quite the _cold Air_ of a reserved Modesty, immediately yield to his Wishes, and meet him in an _amorous Conflict_, with all the _Vivacity_ that simple Nature unrestrain'd by Art could inspire. And little Miss, who just begins to sigh and wish for she knows not what, will be encouraged to wish for a Husband, and think a _double Entendre_ strictly virtuous, even tho' it turns upon the _Closet Commerce_ between the Sexes: And should any one intrusted with her Education inform her that she is in the Wrong, or strive to check the rising Passion; may she not pertly answer. _Why sure! There's no Harm in it, for_ Pamela _does so; there are several such Things in that_ good Book, _and my_ Mother _recommended me to the reading of it, nay, and the_ Parson _says it is the_ best Book in the World _except the_ Bible. Miss _Pamela_ tho' very angry with her Master, yet in some Measure seems to be very fond of excusing him: 'He's very wicked indeed, says she, but then there are others as bad, 'tis Time he was married truely; for he grows so rampant he'll overrun the Parish else, but if he does there are others that will keep him in Countenance; there's Squire _Martin_ he keeps a Seraglio of his own, and has had _three Lyings in_, it seems, in his House, within these three Months; and several more of my Master's Companions who are as bad as he. Alack a day! What a World we live in! It is grown more Wonder that Men are _resisted_ than that Women _comply_.' Indeed Mr. _Pamela_ is very discerning of her Age!