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and if any one is faithless in love, we are sent to 
speak an angry reproof to the false one. 
“ In Holland I was no less honored than Miss 
Hyacinth, and for three hundred years was an object 
of desire and pursuit. Then I never had any thinjr 
to do with common flowers or common people, as 
my cousin well knows ; and it was not very amiable 
in her to refer to the short-lived favor of that prin¬ 
cess, who never loved any thing for its true value, 
but only in proportion as the multitude prized it. I 
have had enough admiration to satisfy any one, and 
I have too much spirit to be cast down because the 
fashion has changed. I know my own worth, and 
care for the love of no one, if I have plenty of room, 
and can see and be seen. There is not much to 
admire in this narrow garden, to be sure, especially , 
for one who has lived in courts, but 1 can hold up 
my head over most of the weeds, and with my eye 
