The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty ExtravagantHead, Richard
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The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant
Head, Richard
Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Fiction
_I cannot blame you so much as my self; it is customary for man
to proffer, but then it should be a womans duty to refuse: but
alas! how could I withstand the powerful perswasions of your
eloquent tongue, especially when they carried with them so much
seeming reality of affection and constancy? I finde you now like
other vow-breaking men, who having obtained the fruition of
their desires, their appetite nauseates that which before it so
eagerly crav’d. Call to minde those many endeared and melting
expressions you did voluntarily utter, when I was encircled in
thine arms; and if that will not reduce you to your former
station, and good esteem of me, now so much slighted by you,
consider that I have preferred you in love before my Husband,
not caring how much I wronged him to pleasure you. If nothing
will prevail, know then, this shall be my resolution, that since
you have alienated my affection from my Husband, and you thus
unworthily desert me, I will procure a Subject elsewhere shall
out-do you in every thing, as much or more as you have out-done
my Husband. I am young, plump, handsome, and bucksome; what then
should hinder me from enjoying such a person, my heart will not
rest satisfied till I have found? which having done, he shall
lead me in thy view, and then it is probable you will desire,
but never shall re-assume your place again within my breast._
Farewel.
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