This leads us on to Soothings and Blandishments, till he forms a Trap wherein he is caught himself, and forms an Introduction for fresh Characters; but even amidst all he can't forbear now and then breaking partly tending to the Obscene; for he supposes that had not _Pamela_ been with him, she might have been Wife to some Plough Boy. And upon her answering that had it been so, she should have been content, he replies (V. II. _p._ 18.) intimating that the whole Manor must be at the Lord's Command. In _p._ 20. poor _Pamela_ is to be _press'd to Death_; _p._ 21. he stoops to enquire where she _garters_, and wants to _examine her Knees_. Which by the Way shews the Squire to be a little ignorant, or certainly by seeing her _undress_ twice he might have known. After a great Deal of Chitchat and Courtship, we are last arrived at the fixing of the last Holy Rite:--But to shew our Author's Inclination for a Joke (for he must doubtless be a very Merry Man) he makes Honest Sir _Simon Darnford_ praise her Fingers, and laughing tells her they were made _to touch any Key_: The fluttering Heart before Marriage is prettily described, Lady _Davers_'s Passion tho' a little too violent, and carried to the very highest Extravagance of Nature, affords us Matter of Diversion, as does her running a Race with _Collbrand_ of Laughter.----_Pamela_ herself in _p._ 167, tells us, she shan't _sleep a Wink the first Night_, but concludes with this comfortable Reflection, _that she supposes all young Maidens are the same_; and therefore very prudently resolves to undergo it. But in order to encourage her the Squire desires Good Mrs. _Jewkes_ (who is now her chief Favourite) to entertain her with some _pleasant_ Stories, _suitable to the Occasion_. And his desiring to spoil the _pretty Waist of his Pamela_, _p._ 216, so far from making half the Women in _England_ hurt themselves by Strait-lacing, that I am of Opinion, most of them assisted by that and some other foregoing Passages, wou'd rather endeavour to _enlarge_ themselves in that Part, than decrease it. Nor do Mr. _Longman_ or Mrs. _Jervis_ seem to be of a contrary Opinion to the Squire, but both facetiously drink a Bumper to the _Hans in Kelder_.