Aphra Behn - Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister, 1712 (Google Books; tH4OAAAAQAAJ)
Source:
Google Books
Source Identifier:
tH4OAAAAQAAJ
Attributed Title:
Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister with the history of their adventures. In three parts
Attributed Publisher:
Printed for D. Brown, J. Tonson, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, and G. Strahan
Attributed Year:
1712
Holding Library:
Oxford University - Bodleian Library
Shelfmark:
Mason AA 385
Notes:
With the book plate of 'Mr. Horatio Walpole.'
Inscribed Mary Maria Skerrett, with MS verses: 'Wth words like these thus moveingly exprest / Love gains admittance to the Virgin breast, / Wn unexperienced youth knows no deceite, / & pleasing dreams on morning slumbers wait. / where fancy'd joys are fleeting in the view / of lasting vows, gay loves, & Lovers true. / See here the Image of a wretched maid / by wt small steps insensibly betray'd, / Not all her charms, her beauty, nor her youth / Not her undoing could secure his truth. / Lost & undone'