In _that_ Light alone let the Ladies of _Rank_ look at PAMELA.---Such an alarming Reflection as that will, at the same time that it raises the Hope and Ambition of the _Humble_, correct and mortify the Disdain of the _Proud_. For it will compel them to observe, and acknowledge, that ’tis the Turn of their _Mind_, not the Claims of their _Quality_, by which (and which only) Womens Charms can be lasting: And that, while the _haughty Expectations_, inseparable from an elevated Rank, serve but to multiply its Complaints and Afflictions, the Condescensions of _accomplish’d Humility_, attracting Pity, Affection, and Reverence, secure an hourly Increase of Felicity.---So that the _moral Meaning_ of PAMELA’s Good-fortune, far from tempting young Gentlemen to marry _such_ Maids as are found in their Families, is, by teaching Maids to _deserve to be Mistresses_, to stir up Mistresses _to support their Distinction_. [_del._ 4th] {_We shall only add, That it was intended to prefix two neat _Frontispieces_ to this Edition, (and to present them to the Purchasers of the first) and one was actually finished for that Purpose; but there not being Time for the other, from the Demand for the new Impression; and the Engraving Part of that which was done (tho’ no Expence was spared) having fallen very short of the Spirit of the Passages they were intended to represent, the Proprietors were advised to lay them aside. And were the rather induced to do so, from the following Observation of a most ingenious Gentleman, in a Letter to the Editor._ “I am so jealous, _says he,_ in Behalf of our _inward_ Idea of PAMELA’s _Person_, that I dread _any_ figur’d Pretence to Resemblance. For it will be pity to look at an _Air_, and imagine it _Hers_, that does not carry some such elegant Perfection of Amiableness, as will be sure to find place in the _Fancy_.”} VERSES, sent to the Bookseller, for the Unknown Author [_del._ 8th] {of the beautiful new Piece call’d} _PAMELA_.