piqued to death at her proud refufal of him. Curfes the vile women,
and their potions. But for thefe latter, the majefty of her virtue, he
fays, would have faved her, as it did once before.
XXXV. From the fame. He fhall not, he tells him, be her Executor.
Nobody fhall be any-thing to her but himself. What a reprobation of
a man, who was once fo dear to her! Further inftances of his rav-

ing impatience.
XXXVI. Lovelace, To Clariffa. A Letter full of penitence, promifes,
praises, and admiration of her virtue. Has no hopes of escaping per-
dition but by her precepts and example. All he begs for the prefent
is, a few lines to encourage him to hope for forgiveness, if he can
juftify his vows by his future conduct.

XXXVII. Clariffa, To Lord M. and the Ladies of his boufe. Thank-
fully declines accepting of their offered Bounty. Pleads for their be-
ing reconciled to their kinfman, for reasons respecting her own
peace. Hopes that they may be enabled to rejoice in the effects of his
reformation, many years after fhe is laid low, and forgotten.
XXXVIII. Belford, To Lovelace. Brief account of his expelling Tho-
mafine, her fons, and her gallant. Further reflections on Keeping. A
ftate not calculated for a fick bed. Gives a fhort journal of what had
paffed relating to the Lady fince his laft. Mr. Brand enquires after
her character and behaviour of Mrs. Smith. His Starchedness, Con-
ceit, and Pedantry.

XXXIX. From the fame. Further Particulars relating to the Lady.
Power left her by her Grandfather's Will.

XL. Clariffa, To Lovelace. In Anfwer to his Letter, No. xxxvi.

XLI. Her Uncle Harlowe's cruel Letter, in Answer to hers to her Mo-
ther, No. xxxii. Meditation ftitched to it with black filk.

XLII. Clariffa, To her Uncle Harlowe. In Reply.

XLIII. Mifs Howe, from the Isle of Wight. In anfwer to hers, No. xviii.
Approves not of her choice of Belford for her Executor; yet thinks
fhe cannot appoint for that office any of her own family. Hopes fhe
will live many years.

XLIV. Clariffa, To Mifs Horve., Sends her a large packet of Letters;
but (for her Relations fake) not all the has received. Muft now
abide by the choice of Mr. Belford for her Executor; but further
refers to the papers the fends her, for her juftification on this head.
XLV. Antony Harlowe, To Clarifa. A Letter more taunting and re-
proachful than that of her other Uncle. To what owing.

XLVI. Clariffa, In Anfwer. Wishes that the circumftances of her cafe
had been enquired into. Concludes with a folemn and pathetic prayer
for happiness of the whole family.

XLVII. Mrs. Norton, To Clariffa. Her friends, thro' Brand's reports,
as fhe imagines, intent upon her going to the Plantations. Wishes
ker to difcourage improper vifitors. Difficult fituations the tefts of
prudence as well as of virtue. Dr. Lewen's folicitude for her welfare.
Her Coufin Morden arrived in England. Further pious confolations.
XLVIII. Clariffa, In Anfwer. Sends her a packet of papers, which, for
ber Relations fake, fhe cannot communicate to Mifs Howe. From
thefe fhe will collect a good deal of her ftory. Defends, yet gently

blames,

blames her Mother. Afraid that her Coufin Morden will be fet
against her; or, what is worse, that he will feek to avenge her.
Her affecting conclufion on her Norton's divine confolations.
XLIX. Lovelace, To Belford. Is very ill. The Lady, if he die, will
repent her refufal of him. One of the greateft felicities that can befal
a woman, what. Extremely ill. His ludicrous behaviour on awak-
ing, and finding a Clergyman and his friends praying for him by his
bed-fide.

L. Belf, To Lovelace. Concerned at his illness. Wishes that
he had died before laft April. The Lady, he tells him, generously
pities him; and prays that he may meet with the mercy he has not
shewn.

LI. Lovelace, To Belford. In raptures on her goodness to him. His
deep regrets for his treatment of her. Bleffes her.
LII. Belford to Lovelace. Congratulates him on his amendment.
The Lady's exalted charity to him. Her ftory a fine fubject for Tra-
gedy. Compares with it, and cenfures, The Play of the Fair Penitent.
She is very ill; the worse for fome new inftances of the implacable-
nefs of her relations. A Meditation on that fubject. Poor Belton,
he tells him, is at death's door; and defirous to fee him.
LIII. Belford, To Clariffa. Acquaints her with the obligation he is
under to go to Belton, and (left she should be surprised) with Love-
lace's refolution (as fignified in the next Letter) to vifit her.
LIV. Lovelace, To Belford. Refolves to throw himself at the Lady's
feet. Lord M. of opinion, that she ought to admit of one Interview.
LV. From the fame. Arrived in London, he finds the Lady gone
abroad. Sufpects Belford. His unaccountable freaks at Smith's. His
motives for behaving fo ludicrously there. The vile Sally Martin en-
tertains him with her mimicry of the divine Lady.
LVI. From the fame. His frightful Dream.

How affected by it.
Sleeping or waking, his Clariffa always prefent with him. Hears fhe
is returned to her lodgings. Is haftening to her.

LVII. From the fame. Difappointed again. Is affected by Mrs. Lo-
vick's expoftulations. Is fhewn a Meditation On being bunted after
by the enemy of her foul, as it is intitled. His light comments upon it.
Leaves word that he refolves to fee her. Makes feveral other efforts
for that purpofe.

LVIII. Belford, To Lovelace. Reproaches him that he has not kept his
honour with him. Inveighs againft, and feverely cenfures him for his
light behaviour at Smith's. Eelton's terrors and defpondency. Mow-
bray's impenetrable behaviour.

LIX. Belford, To Lovelace. Mowbray's impatience to run from a dying
Belton to a too lively Lovelace. Mowbray abufes Mr. Belton's fer-
vant in the language of a Rake of the common clafs. Reflection on
the brevity of Life.

LX. Lovelace, To Belford. Receives a Letter from Clariffa, written by
way of allegory, to induce him to forbear hunting after her. Copy
of it. He takes it in a literal fenfe. Exults upon it. Will now
haften down to Lord M. and receive the gratulations of all his fa-

mily on her returning favour. Gives an interpretation of his fright-
ful dream to his own liking.

LXI. LXII. From the fame. Pities Belton. Rakifhly defends him on
the iffue of a duel, which now adds to the poor man's terrors. His
opinion of death, and the fear of it. Reflections on the conduct of
Play-writers with regard to servants. He cannot account for the
turn his Clarifla has taken in his favour. Hints at one bepeful caufe
of it. Now Matrimony feems to be in his power, he has fome retro-
grade motions.
LXIII. Belford, To Lovelace. Continuation of his narrative of Belton's
laft illness and impatience. The poor man abuses the gentlemen of
the Faculty. Belford cenfures fome of them for their greediness after
fees. Belton dies. Serious reflections on the occafion.
LXIV. Lovelace, To Belford. Hopes Belton is happy: And why. He
is fetting out for Berks.

LXV. Belford, To Lovelace. Attends the Lady. She is extremely ill,
and receives the Sacrament. Complains of the harraffes his friend had
given her. Two different perfons (from her Relations, he supposes)
enquire after her. Her affecting address to the Doctor, Apothecary,
and himself. Difpofes of fome more of her apparel, for a very af-
fecting purpose.

LXVI. Dr. Lewen, To Clariffa. Writes on his pillow, to prevail upon
her to profecute Lovelace for his Life.

LXVII. Her pathetic and noble-Anfwer.

LXVIII. Mifs Arabella Harlotve, To Clarifa. Proposes, in a most
taunting and cruel manner, the profecution of Lovelace; or, if not
her going to Pennsylvania.

LXIX. Clariffa's affecting Answer.

LXX. LXXI. Mrs. Norton, To Clarissa. Her Uncle's cruel Letter to
what owing. Colonel Morden refolved on a vifit to Lovelace,-Mrs.
Hervey, in a private conversation with her, accounts for, yet blames,
the cruelty of the Family. Mifs Dolly Hervey wishes to attend her.
LXXII. Clariffa. In Anfwer. Thinks fhe has been treated with great
rigour by her relations. Expreffes more warmth than usual on this
fubject. Yet foon checks herself. Grieves that Colonel Morden re-
folves on a vifit to Lovelace. Touches upon her Sifter's taunting
Letter. Requests Mrs. Norton's Prayers for Patience and Refig-

nation.

LXXIII. Mifs Horve, To Clariffa. Approves now of her appointment
of Belford for an Executor. Admires her greatness of mind in de-
fpifing Lovelace. Every body she is with, taken with Hickman.
Yet the cannot help wantoning with the power his obfequious Love
gives her over him.

LXXIV. LXXV. Clarissa, To Miss Howe. Instructive leffons and ob-
servations on her treatment of Hickman.-Acquaints her with all
that has happened fince her laft. Fears that her Allegorical Letter is
not ftrictly right. Is forced by illness to break off. Refumes. Wishes
her married.

LXXVI. Mr. Wyerley, To Clarissa. A generous renewal of his addrefs
to her now in her calamity; and a tender of his best services.

LXXVII.

LXXVII. Her open, kind, and inftructive Answer.

LXXVIII. Lovelace, To Belford. Uneafy, on a fufpicion that her Letter
to him was a stratagem only. What he will do, if he find it fo.
LXXIX. Belford, To Lovelace. Brief account of his proceedings in
Belton's affairs. The Lady extremely ill. Thought to be near her
end. Has a low-fpirited day. Recovers her fpirits; and thinks
herfelf above this world. She bespeaks her coffin. Confeffes that
her Letter to Lovelace was Allegorical only. The light in which
Belford beholds her.

LXXX. From the fame. An affecting converfation that paffed between
the Lady and Dr. H. She talks of Death, he fays, and prepares for
it, as if it were an occurrence as familiar to her, as dreffing and un-
dreffing. Worthy behaviour of the Doctor. She makes obfervations
on the vanity of life, on the wisdom of an early preparation for death,.
and on the laft behaviour of Belton.
LXXXI. LXXXII. LXXXIII. Lovelace, To Belford. Particulars of
what paffed between himself, Colonel Morden, Lord M. and Mow-
bray, on the vifit made him by the Colonel. Propofes Belford to
Mifs Charlotte Montague, by way of Raillery, for an husband.-
He inclofes Brand's Letter, which mifreprefents (from credulity and
officiousness, rather than from ill-will) the Lady's conduct.
LXXXIV. Belford, To Lovelace. Expatiates on the baseness of deluding,
young creatures, whofe confidence has been obtained by oaths, vows,
promifes. Evil of Cenforiousness. People deemed good too much
addicted to it. Defires to know what he means by his ridicule with
regard to his charming Coufin.

LXXXV. From the fame. A proper teft of the purity of writing. The
Lady again makes excufes for her Allegorical Letter. Her calm be-
haviour, and generous and ufeful reflections, on his communicating
to her Brand's misrepresentations of her conduct.

LXXXVI. Colonel Morden, to Clarifa. Offers his affiftance and fer-
vice to make the best of what has happened. Advifes her to marry
Lovelace, as the only means to bring about a general Reconciliation.
Has no doubt of his refolution to do her juftice. Defires to know if
The has.

LXXXVII. Clariffa. In Aufwer.
LXXXVIII. Lovelace, To Belford. His reafonings and ravings on
finding the Lady's Letter to him only an Allegorical one. In the midst
of these, the natural gaiety of his heart runs him into ridicule on
Belford. His ludicrous image drawn from a monument in Westmin-
fter-abbey. Refumes his serious difpofition. If the worst happen
The Lord of Heaven and Earth, fays he, avert that worst!) he bids
thim only write that he advises him to take a trip to Paris. And that
will ftab him to the heart.

LXXXIX. Belford, To Lovelace. The Lady's coffin brought up stairs.
He is extremely fhocked and difcompofed at it. Her intrepidity.
Great minds, he observes, cannot avoid doing uncommon things. Re-
flection on the curiosity of women.

XC. From

XC. From the fame. Description of the coffin, and devices on the lid.
It is placed in her bed-chamber. His ferious application to Lovelace
on her great behaviour.

XCI. From the fame. Aftonished at his levity in the abbey-inftance.
The Lady extremely ill.

XCII. Lovelace, To Belford. All he has done to the Lady, a jeft to
die for; fince her triumph has ever been greater than her fufferings.
He will make over all his poffeffions and all his reverfions to the
Doctor if he will but prolong her life for one twelvemonth. How,
but for ber calamities, could her Equanimity blaze out as it does!
He could now love her with an intellectual flame. He cannot bear to
think, that the last time she so triumphantly left him, should be the
laft. His confcience, he says, tears him. He is fick of the remem-
brance of his vile plots.

XCIII. Belford, To Lovelace. The Lady alive, ferene, and calm. The
more ferene for having finished, figned, and fealed her Laft Will;"
deferred till now, for reafons of filial duty.
XCIV. Mifs Howe, To Clariffa.

Pathetically laments the illness of
her own Mother, and of her dear friend. Now all her pertnesses to the
former, the fays, fly in her face. She lays down her pen; and resumes
it, to tell her, with great joy, that her Mother is better. She has
had a vifit from her Coufin Morden. What pafled in it.
XCV. From the fame. Difpleafed with the Colonel for thinking too
freely of the Sex. Never knew a Man that had a flight notion of
the virtue of women in general, who deferved to be valued for his
morals. Why women must be either more or less virtuous than men.
Useful hints to young Ladies. Is out of humour with Mr. Hickman.
Refolves to fee her foon in town.

XCVI. Belford, To Lovelace. The Lady writes and reads upon her
coffin, as upon a desk. The Doctor refolves to write to her Father.
Her intenfe, yet chearful devotion.

XCVII. Clariffa, To Mifs Howe. A Letter full of pious reflections,
and good advice, both general and particular; and breathing the true
Chriftian fpirit of charity, forgiveness, patience, and refignation. A
juft reflection, to her dear friend, upon the mortifying nature of pride.

END of VOL. VII.