were descended of a Family of Yesterday, or but a Remove
        or two from the Dirt you seem so fond of. But, let me tell you, that I,
        and all mine, will renounce you for ever, if you can descend so meanly;
        and I shall be ashamed to be called your Sister. A handsome Gentleman as
        you are in your Person; so happy in the Gifts of your Mind, that every
        body courts your Company; and possess'd of such a noble and clear
        Estate; and very rich in Money besides, left you by the best of Fathers
        and Mothers, with such ancient Blood in your Veins, untainted! for you
        to throw away yourself thus, is intolerable; and it would be very wicked
        in you to ruin the Wench too. So that I beg you will restore her to her
        Parents, and give her 100 l. or so, to make her happy in some honest
        Fellow of her own Degree; and that will be doing something, and will
        also oblige and pacify
                                                       Your much grieved Sister.
        If I have written too sharply, consider it is my Love to you, and the
        Shame you are bringing upon yourself; and I wish this may have the
        Effect upon you intended by your very loving Sister.«
 
This is a sad Letter, my dear Father and Mother; and one may see how poor People
are despised by the Proud and the Rich; and yet we were all on a foot
originally: And many of these Gentlefolks, that brag of their ancient Blood,
would be glad to have it as wholsome, and as really untainted, as ours! - Surely
these proud People never think what a short Stage Life is; and that, with all
their Vanity, a Time is coming, when they shall be obliged to submit to be on a
Level with us; and true said the Philosopher, when he looked upon the Skull of a
King, and that of a poor Man, that he saw no Difference between them. Besides,
do they not know, that the richest of Princes, and the poorest of Beggars, are
to have one great and tremendous Judge, at the last Day; who will not
distinguish between them, according to their Qualities in Life? - But, on the
contrary, may make their Condemnations the greater, as their neglected
Opportunities were the greater? Poor Souls! how I pity their Pride! - O keep me,
gracious God! from their high Condition, if my Mind shall ever be tainted with
their Vice! or polluted with so cruel and inconsiderate a Contempt of the humble