ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ ΤΗΕ REA DE R. TH HE following Moral Romance (or whatever Title the Reader fhall pleafe to give it) is the Work of a Woman, and her firft Elay; which, to the good-natured and candid Reader will, it is hoped, be a fufficient Apology for the many Inaccuracies he will find in the Style, and other Faults of the Compofition PERHAPS the best Excufe that can be made for a Woman's ven A.2 turing: is turing to write at all, is that which her Power. IF it fhould meet with Success, it will be the only Good Fortune he ever has known; but as she is very fenfible, ....That must chiefly depend upon the Entertainment the World will find in the Book itself, and not upon what she can fay in the Preface, either to move their Compaffion, or befpeak their Good-will, The will detain them from it no longer. CHAP. II. In which is feen the terrible Confequences that attend Envy and Selfifonefs. CHAP. III. In which is feen the Poffibility of a married Couple's leading an uneasy CHAP. IV The first fetting out of Mr. David Simple on his fourney; with Some very remarkable and uncommon Ac- CHAP. V. In which is contained a moft |