A proper reply to a late very extraordinary letter from the Hon. T[homa]s H[erve]y, Esq.; to Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. In a letter to the honourable author / By a lady.

Date:: 1742

Credit: A proper reply to a late very extraordinary letter from the Hon. T[homa]s H[erve]y, Esq.; to Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. In a letter to the honourable author / By a lady. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Chan What Attonement i$ that ? Wou’d you bear to have your Chaftity arraign’d by Lady B--becaufe the own’dj in the fame Breath, lier own Infamy, already too public to be conceal’d ? Shall he dare to call m fcait- dalous, to proclaim us Propagators of Scandal^ and hope to go unpunifla’d/ becaufe he blends hrs cf'eminate Men with us ? —• No, dear ^pritcl)\ I will fpend every Drop of Ink in my Stan- diih to vindicate the Honour of my Sex ; had the F—I blended us with the whole Mak Creation^ perhaps I had forgiven him ; but to couple us with his effeminate Men only— L, Sprit, If his Variiim & Mutabiki in the next Page, (21.) Fickle- nefs and Unfteadinefs^ he takes in his own whole Sex, as well as ours, into his Defeription ; and therefore deferves fome Indulgence at your Hands —. Varium & Mutahik^ fays he, tho fatyrically apply’d by Juvenal to Wc^ me7i only, belong equally to Men. Char, This Impartiality had really efcaped me, if you had not taken no¬ tice of it-- L. Sprit, I am pleas’d to have been’ inftrumental 10 the reftoring you to G thef$