BC_1741_EMONTAGU_SS

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<Q A 1741? FN SS EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH ROBINSON TO SARAH ROBINSON. MO 5592. 1740/1 JANUARY 8?}]
<P1>
Dear Sister
   Having already wrote a long letter into the family & being summon'd by the bell to finish my Epistles for the Evening you must excuse me if I write but a few lines. I was with Cotes this morning who looks well & is grown fat, but not in the partial manner proper for the holy State of Matrimony, she loaded me with excuses to you for not writing & with promises of amendment, I hope her Resolution will avail more that her Repentance, M=iss= Knatchbull is ashamed of being lazy & desires I would tell you so, if I am to apologize for every bodys faults I shall never want business. M=rs= Sawbridge appear'd under the character of Miss [\Brodnax\]
<P2>
To avoid the expence of a magnificent appearance suitable to the great Character of M=r= Jacob Sawbridges wife, The importance of a Woman to herself notwithstanding her insignificance to the rest of the World is finely exemplified in her. I hope she will be a good husewife [\SIC\] for if ever nature made a Woman for no other purpose it is her, homely features & cheeks of sorry grain may serve to ply the Sampler & to teize the Housewifes Wool & let such be her occupation, the Lillies of the field toil not neither do they spin; they add to the beauty of the World by themselves but (^sure there is a duty incumbent upon those who cannot look well to do well, and not to break in upon Natures Oeconomy which makes nothing in vain as they can be of no pleasure they [\may DELETED\] [\shou'd/] be of some use.^) Pray tell Robert I hope
<P3>
he caught no cold but I was very uneasy at his going such a bad night. (\Adieu\) I must conclude I am most affectionately yours E R
[\ADDRESS\] To / Miss Robinson / At Horton / Near Hythe / Kent / Free Portland
[\SEAL\]