and "The Fortunate
Mistress" might moralize upon the unhappy consequences of love, but he
was inclined to regard passion with an equal mind. He stated facts
simply. Love, in his opinion, was not a strong motive when uncombined
with interest. But Eliza Haywood held the romantic watchword of all for
love, and her books are a continual illustration of _Amor vincit omnia_.
In the present case her words seem to indicate that the passions of love
and jealousy so often experienced by her characters were not unfamiliar
to her own breast. Even Duncan Campbell's predictions were unable to
alter her destiny.

"But tho' I was far enough from disbelieving what he said, yet Youth,
Passion, and Inadvertency render'd his Cautions ineffectual. It was in
his Hand-Writing I first beheld the dear fatal Name, which has since
been the utter Destruction of my Peace: It was from him I knew I
should be undone by Love and the Perfidy of Mankind, before I had the
least Notion of the one, or had seen any of the other charming enough
to give me either Pain or Pleasure.... Yet besotted as I was, I had
neither the Power of defending myself from the Assaults of Love, nor
Thought sufficient to enable me to make those Preparations which were
necessary for my future Support, while I had yet the means" ...(p.
13).

"Yet so it is with our inconsiderate Sex!--To vent a present Passion,
--for the short liv'd Ease of railing at the Baseness of an ungrateful
Lover,--to gain a little Pity,--we proclaim our Folly, and become the
Jest of all who know us.--A forsaken Woman immediately grows the
Object of Derision,--rallied by the Men, and pointed at by every
little Flirt, who fancies herself secure in her own Charms of never
being so, and thinks 'tis want of Merit only makes a Wretch.

"For my dear Lord, I am sensible, tho' our Wounds have been a long
time heal'd, there yet remains a Tenderness, which, if touch'd, will
smart afresh.--The Darts of Passion, such as we have felt, make too
indeliable an Impression ever to be quite eraz'd;--they are not
content with the eternal Sear they leave on the Reputation ..."
(p.76).

These passages are in substance and style after Eliza Haywood's manner,
while the experiences therein hinted at do not differ essentially from
the circumstances of her own life.

The various aspects of love and jealousy are also the theme of the
second and third parts of "A Spy upon the Conjurer