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owe to your self or to any of your Friends -- I have been fearful
lest I engros'd too much of your Time, by my fondness for scribling, This
I forebare to mention lest it might appear to you as if I thought
I sat [begin underline] too [end underline] near your Heart, but your [?]int in y^r^ last gives me an
opportunity to beg you never to think of me to the exclusion of [begin underline] any [end underline]
more worthy Object. Let us both (i have much more need of the Caution
than you) be very careful, to preserve our Dignity; let it be con-
spicuous, to each, that we are activated by the noblest Principles.
That we scorne to bow to the pleasures Sense. Let each Action
be convincing, of our having a just Estimate of all sublunary
Enjoyments. Let us with grateful Heart enjoy the blessings
lent by Heaven; Seek for an interest there, nor be absolutely content
with any thing short of Supreme Felicity. --

While we are in the world, we must ware the marks
of frailty -- Weakness is wrote upon our perfections -- We must be