Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e : written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa ... Which contain ... accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks / [Mary Wortley Montagu].

  • Mary Wortley Montagu
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1790
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Credit: Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M---e : written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa ... Which contain ... accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks / [Mary Wortley Montagu]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it. When a huA>aHd happens to be inconftant, (as thofe things will happen) he keeps his millrcfs in a houfe apait, and vifits her as privately as he can, jull as it is with you.^ Aniongft all the great men here, I only know the tefterdar^ (i. e. treafurer) that keeps a number of flie llaves, for his own ufe, (that i‘, on his own fide of the houfe j for a Have once given to ferve a lady, is entirely at her difpo- 1^1) and he is fpoke of as a libertine, or what we fhould call a rake, and his wife won’t fee him, though flie con- tinues to live in his houfe. Thus you fee, dear fider, the manners of mankind do not differ fo widely, as our voy- age-writers would make us believe. Perhaps, it would be more entertaining to add a few furprifmg cudoms of my own invention ; but nothing leems to me fo agreeable as truth, and I believe nothing fo acceptable to you. I .conclude tlicrefore with repealing the great trutil of my being, Dear flder, &c. LET. XXX. TO MR POPE. Adridnople, April i. O. S. 1717. X DARE fay you expect, at lead, fometliing verv-^ new in this letter, after I have gone a journey, not undertaken by any Ghridian for fome hundred years. The mod re- markable accident tint happened to me, was my being very near overturned into the Hebrus; and, if I had much regard for the glories that one’s name enioys after death, I-fliould certainly be foiry for having miffed the romantic conclufion of fwimming down tlie fame river in which the mulical head of Orpheus repeated veries fo many ages fuicc; “ Caput