[ 'We cannot without regret mention or call to minde the losse of our Estates, & yet we can remember without sorrow, the Losse (in Adam) of our first State of Innocency.' deleted]

[ 'Sollicitous Persons are worse natur'd to themselves then the very Divell, for he wud by no meanes be tormented before his time.' deleted]

She found it farre more difficult to oppose Virtue then Persecution.

Beg'd her to beleeve['e' at end of word altered from 'd'], that he was more troubled at hir Teares, then she could be for their subject; & that she would not so much contribute to his Torment, as to manifest that she was sensible of it, nor to his Recovery, as shewing him a Beauty that was capable of greater Miracles.

If - yet hir & your Condition would be but as desperate as without that Essay.

[ 'A happynesse that the God' deleted]

-Your Vertues are so greate that I can better suffer your Passion then your ruine.

May not I feare I owe this Preservative to your Duty not your Mercy.

I may ende my Life with that which gives rellish to it.

This promise I do more Joyfully receive then the health & life it will restore me to.

If it had not been for P. this Threatning had lost that quality; & the Pennance had invited hir to sinne.

And implor'd them to direct my Actions to hir satisfaction, tho to my owne ruine.

-That I exclaim'd against my Fate that had made my being his Friend & Isadora's servant inconsistent.

And I beseech the Gods to make me as unfortunate in the other world as I have been in this, if I resent any trouble for my Death, but what I apprehend it may create in him, & that by this one Argument of my Flame, I am render'd for ever uncapable of giving him any other.

- The Gods declar'd their Justice in forcing him that had bin hir Enemy to become hir Revenger.

- His Tombe, which had no other Inscription then Here lyes Hanniball, & indeed was not capable of a Greater.

- Which to do by feare & not by necessity was &c

- To oppose their Captivity in a way that if it afterwards prov'd their Destiny, yet at least it wud be esteem'd their misfortune & not their Defect.

For perhaps my sacrilegious arm might have been employ'd against a Virtue, which to have fought against or resisted, would have more troubled me then to be vanquisht by it: & which to know is so greate a Felicity, that I count my Defeate an easy purchase of it.

- There to preserve hir honor or not live to see it violated.

On which (story) if, I have too long insisted, 'twas to publish what twere a sin to conceale.