†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.