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Decency, nor which can offend even the chaſteſt Eye in the Peruſal. On the contrary, I declare, that to recommend Goodneſs and Innocence hath been my ſincere Endeavour in this Hiſtory. This honeſt Purpoſe you have been pleaſed to think I have attained: And to ſay the Truth, it is likelieſt to be attained in Books of this Kind; for an Example is a Kind of Picture, in which Virtue becomes as it were an Object of Sight, and ſtrikes us with an Idea of that Lovelineſs, which Plato aſſerts there is in her naked Charms.
Beſides diſplaying that Beauty of Virtue which may attract the Admiration of Mankind, I have attempted to en-gage
