: Pamela Censured by Anonymous Batten Charles Commentator - Richardson Samuel 1689-1761. Pamela

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He may make me great offers, and may, perhaps, intend to deck me out in finery, the better to gratify his own pride; but I should be a wicked creature indeed, if, for the sake of riches or favour, I should forfeit my good name; yea, and worse than any other young body of my sex; because I can so contentedly return to my poverty again, and think it less disgrace to be obliged to live upon rye-bread and water, as I used to do, than to be a harlot to the greatest man in the world.

To make Pamela's moral purity even clearer, Richardson causes tears to appear in Mrs. Jervis's eyes as she hears Pamela's virtuous protestations. Though the reader originally watches Pamela pull off her stays and "stockens," these details are now omitted . Mr. B's clothing loses some of its extravagance, his dressing gown no longer being silver and his waistcoat no longer trimmed in gold . Moreover, Mr. B exercises a bit more restraint : while in the first edition he comes to Pamela's bed, in the later version he simply approaches her "bed-side" . For the fourteenth edition, Richardson omits the "obscene ... double Entendre" in which Mr. B wishes he could have Pamela "as Quick another Way" . In an almost passive fashion, Mr. B releases Pamela from his clutches, "loosing his arms with an air," while in the original version he obviously keeps a passionate hold on her . During Mr. B's last attempt at rape, Pamela no longer offers up her prayers "all undrest" , and Mr. B no longer approaches her bed breathing "all quick and short." Once the attempted rape is over and Pamela awakens from her faint, she does not speculate concerning "the Liberties taken with her in her deplorable State" . Finally, Pamela is now less brazen when led by Mr. B into the alcove where he proclaims his love. She now prudently considers that she can safely go there for two reasons: the alcove has "a passage through it" and Mr. B had already led her there "once without stopping" .

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NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

PAMELA CENSURED:

IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

SHEWING

That under the Specious Pretence of Cultivating the Principles of Virtue in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes, the MOST ARTFUL and ALLURING AMOROUS IDEAS are convey'd.

Ridet hoc, inquam, Venus ipsa; rident Simplices Nymphae, ferus & Cupido, Semper ardentes acuens Sagittas Cote Cruenta. HORAT.

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