do you the Justice to say, that there can be no Virtue reprefented in all this Collection for the Female World, which I have not known you exert as far as the Opportunities of your Fortune have given you leave. Forgive me, that my Heart overflows with Love and Gratitude for daily Inftances of your prudent Oeconomy, the just Disposition you make of your little Affairs, your Chearfulness in Dispatch of them, your prudent Forbearance of any Reflexions that they might have needed needed lefs Vigilance had you disposed of your Fortune fuitably; in fhort, for all the Arguments you every Day give me, of a Generous and Sincere Affection. ރ It is impoffible for me to look back on many Evils and Pains which I have fuffered fince we came together, without a preffed, from the Proofs I have had in thofe circumstances of your unwearied Goodnefs. How often has your Tenderness removed Pain from my fick Head? How often Anguish from my afAicted Aicted Heart? With how skilful Patience have I known you comply with the vain Projects which Pain has fuggefted, to have an aking Limb removed by Journeying from one fide of a Room to another; how often the next Inftant travelled the fame Ground again, without telling your Patient it was to no Purpose to change his Situation? If there are fuch Beings as Guardian Angels, thus are they employed; I will no more believe one of them more Good in its Inclinations, than I can conceive it it more charming in its Form than my Wife. But I offend, and forget that what I fay to you is to appear in Publick: You are so great a Lover of Home, that I know it will be irksome to you to go into the World even in an Applaufe. I will end this, without fo much as mentioning your Little Flock, or your own amiable Figure at the Head of it: That I think them preferable to all other Children, I know is the Effect of Paffion and Inftinct; that I believe You the best of Wives, |