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the propelling motive would have been equally strong 

 — In short, I was urged forward by a power which 

 till now had never actuated me ; at least in such a 

 degree : — 



For, I believe, we have all of us been more or less 

 subject to the influence of love — nay, madam, even 

 Johnson once felt " the tender passion ;" why then 

 should you deny it? Besides 'tis difficult to say 

 where partiality ends and love begins ; for rest assu- 

 red, that when you ran up stairs the other day in 

 search of the embrocation for the bruised arm of your 

 brother's friend, it was something more than pity 

 which enforced you to it ; and had you yourself ap- 

 plied the remedy, you would most probably have 

 found it so. Beware, then, madam — if you have re- 

 solved to keep Cupid at a distance — beware how you 

 are induced to admire the bravery of one man, or to 

 feel for the miseries of another ; for, in so doing, you 

 have unquestionably divulged to the little blind god 

 the secret of your vixlnerability. But why should 

 you make any such resolution ? 



Love, madam, is to the heart, what inoculation is 

 to the body ; the one counteracting depravity ; the 

 other, disease. Do not talk about the mischief w\\\Q\i 

 it causes amongst as ; for though it has thrown many 

 men into a fishpond, it has saved many more from 

 the gallows. 



Tristram . 



