Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the...

"_AS soon as I had resolved to address the following Treatise to one of the Gentlemen who was abused, together with myself, in the late infamous Libel, more than one Motive induced me to make Choice of You: For as no one was so flagrantly injur'd as Yourself, the infamous Aspersion was so open and so manifest, that there remained not the least Doubt who was the Person meant by it. An Insinuation equally base and groundless, which could have enter'd into the Head of no one who had either Sense, Honour, or Nature in him; into the Head of no one, but one whose Mind was equally out of Nature, and equally crooked and deformed with his Body. This base Insinuation was not only contrary to Truth and Justice, but even contrary to common Fame; for You are known to have that Respect, Esteem, and Affection for the most beautiful Part of the Creation, which God and Nature design'd we should have: But You have Qualities to recommend You to them, which have not been given to all, as Truth, Faith, Honour, Justice, and a Conversation, at the same time, entertaining, and instructing: These are Qualities which have recommended You to a very fine Lady, to whom You have been married many Years, and by whom You have had Eight Children, who are now living: And these are Qualities, which, as they have gain'd You the Affections of the Fair Sex, have equally recommended You to the Esteem and Respect of Ours; and more particularly of,
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