BC_1760_EMONTAGU_WP_3

Download as TXT Download as XML

<Q A 1760? TC WP EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO LORD BATH. MO 4503A. 1760? DECEMBER?}]
<P1>
Past eleven saturday
morn
[\ADDED 1760-1\]
My Lord
   I thank your Lordship much for your game, & still more for your letter. & I can justify that taste upon the best principles of Epicureanism.
   I really think I cannot be too much upon my guard against a Lover who at once strikes off twenty years in his suit, such vehemence & violence alarms me, had your Lordship begged off ye twenty years by five years at a time, I really think you had prevail'd. You say my Lord that at the end of forty years I promise only to listen. I appeal to your own experience & the report of others, whether ever the Woman who (^listen'd^) [\WORDS INTO to a Lover\] (^only listen'd^) . However I forgive your Lordship this mistake for the justness which you place all pride
<P2>
and vanity in love conquests on the male side. As to D=r= Monsey, I have reason to hope he has already broke his heart. M=r= Montagu lives in that state of ignorance from whence arises much of the felicity of the conjugal state, & I am willing he should live till the millennium draws a little nearer, I am very sensible that happy period comes nearer every day, by the increasing tenderness with which I am
   My Lord
   Your Lordships
   most devoted