68 MANNER of giving ADVICE, 
like the subject of it. Let it therefore fall like dew; do not 
over-whelm her with a shower. If you tell her too much, 
tho’ you tell it never fo well, ike will not regard it ; and ii 
you repeat it often, line will think you gratify your inclination 
in one inftance, as file may do hers in another. Convince 
her, above all things, that you have no meaning but what is 
directed to promote her felicity. But a3 this is fo delicate a 
talk, you muft adapt your very words to her taste ; your 
voice to her ear ; your fentiments to her peculiar turn of 
thought : you muft exert all your art to render your advice 
acceptable : that will be received kindly from you, who are 
fo much nearer her age, and for whom file muft needs have 
a greater regard, which, from me, might appear as philofo- 
phical arrogance. 
To reconcile her the more eafily to your admonition, remind 
her that a fpedlator often fees faults, which the a<ftor, tho’ fu- 
perior in fkill, does not difcover in himfelf. I know you will 
fhew more compafiion for this young lady than my remarks 
seem to carry with them : make ufe of as few, or as many, 
of them as you pleafe ; only I beg you will obferve, that 
as much a philofopher as I may pretend to be, I have too 
much wit to wage war with all the young ladies, or old 
ones either, who have inordinate affe&ions for monkeys, par- 
rots, or lap-dogs. Farewell. I am yours, &c. 
LET- 
