e amorous Expressions may
tend to corrupt their Children, before they suffer them to peruse it,
nor be led away by the slight Viel of a few Religious Sentiments, which
are thinly spread over them, to permit the Youth under their Care to
discover the naked Charms of an _inflaming Passion_, which is too much
exposed in almost every Page of this _much-admir'd_ PAMELA. I am, SIR,

_Your's_, &c.

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NOTES TO _PAMELA CENSURED_

Title page

The epigraph is from Horace's Odes II. viii. 13-16: "All this but makes
sport for Venus (upon my word, it does!) and for the artless Nymphs, and
cruel Cupid, ever whetting his fiery darts on blood-stained stone"
(_Horace: The Odes and Epodes_, trans. C. E. Bennett [Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Univ. Press, Loeb Classics, 1952], p. 127).

Title page

Little is known about James Roberts, the bookseller (see Henry R.
Plomer, _A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work
in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725_, ed. Arundell
Esdaile [Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1922], p. 255). Undoubtedly
familiar with Richardson, Roberts sold the _Weekly Miscellany_, which
Richardson printed during the 1730's, and he printed Charles Povey's
_Virgin in_ Eden (1741), which like _Pamela Censured_ attacks the
morality of Richardson's novel.

Dedication

After recommending _Pamela_ from his pulpit sometime before 6 January
1741, Dr. Benjamin Slocock (1691-1753) earned the undeserved reputation
of having been paid by Richardson for this praise (see Eaves and Kimpel,
_Samuel Richardson_, pp. 123-24).

5.1-2

The third (duodecimo) edition of _Pamela_, published 12 March 1741, is
virtually the same in content and collation as the second edition,
published less than a month earlier (see William Merritt Sale, Jr.,
_Samuel Richardson: A Bibliographical Record_ [New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press, 1936], pp. 18-19).

6.9-8.17

An attack on the various promises made by Richardson on the title page
of _Pamela_.

8.18-12.27

An attack on _Pamela_'s "Preface by the Editor." Concerning these
objections, the "Introduction" to _Pamela's Conduct in High Life_ finds
fault with the author of _Pamela Censured_: "I shall pass by his
Contradictions with Regard to the Character he draws of the Editor, or
as he will have it _Author_, who appears in his Party-colour'd Writing a
very _artful, silly_ Writer, a Man of fine Sense, and excellen