t answer for the Liberties taken with her in that deplorable
State of Death_. These are Images which I think no Youth can read
without Emotion, and yet I'm afraid are such as they will chuse to
converse with rather than any in the Book. For here the blooming Nymph,
the long desired Object of the eager Lover's Passion, lies naked,
defenceless and exposed in Bed, he rushes on her with all the glowing
Ardour of an ungoverned Passion, and tho' the Author has with much ado
just saved her from _Ravishment_, yet 'tis with the greatest Difficulty,
and that too with a plain Confirmation, that _all Liberties were taken
but the last_: And even that Mrs. _Jewkes_ is made to upbraid him for,
as one that ought to know the Sex better. However, had it ended here, we
had been deprived of another Volume; so that at all Events she must be
saved a little longer, and the poor Squire withdraws shaking his Ears
like a Dog that has burnt his Tail.

He had tried Force long enough; in order therefore to spin out the
Narration, he must take another Method, and try what artful Insinuations
and Perswasions would do: _p._ 280. 'After walking about, he lead me
into a little Alcove--He began to be very teizing, and made me sit on
his Knee, and was so often kissing me, that I said, Sir, I don't like to
be here at all, I assure you. Indeed you make me afraid!--And what made
me the more so, was that he once said to Mrs. _Jewkes_, and did not
think I heard him.--Said he, I will try _once_ more; but I have begun
wrong. For I see Terror does but add to her Frost; but she is a charming
Girl, and may be _thaw'd_ by _Kindness_; and I should have MELTED her
by LOVE, instead of FREEZING her by FEAR.'

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.

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