FALSE TENDERNESS. 6 7 
the graces attend ; may not the good-natur’d Cordelia, fhed 
tears for the lofs of her monkey ? 
It is a very intereding condderation, not to this young lady 
only, but to the old, as well as young ; to men as well as wo- 
men ; and to the people of every clime : it is what every day’s 
experience teaches; that the bell way to fubdue one passion, 
is to fet it at variance with another. Thus a great part of 
mankind are kept within bounds ; and hence arifes, in a great 
meafure, the beauty and harmony of life. It is hardly poffible 
Cordelia can be totally devoid of ambition ? What is more 
nourifh’d in a young lady’s bread:, than the delire of being be- 
loved, if not admired ; edeemed, if not venerated ? Who dares 
fay fhe is a fool ; they might as well tell her fhe is ugly. But 
you may tell her to be cautious not to depart from her own 
principle. Pity and contempt dick as clofe to folly, as 
praise and admiration are the rewards of good sense and 
discretion. 
If this dodtrine is founded in reafon and experience, Cordelia 
will not treat it with contempt, nor will you defpife this medley 
of jed and philofophy, nor I hope the author of it, who is very 
lincerely yours, &c. 
LETTER XXIV. 
To the fame . 
M A D A M, 
P ERMIT me now to write to you with refpedt to the 
manner in .which you may venture to give advice to cor- 
If polfible you mud make this pleasing, tho’ die dil- 
K 2 like 
DELIA. 
