By this Means he perswades the Maid to stay a Fortnight longer, and then Parson _Williams_ is first introduced: Thinks he if I can debauch this Girl 'tis but marrying her to my Chaplain afterwards, giving him a good Living and all's right; and this he brings in with an Offer of Fifty Guineas. However all will not do and she is to go away when she pleases; upon which melancholy occasion Miss must grow poetical and entertain us with a Ditty.
The Squire's Intrigues, the Author has laid the Scene of himself; which take in his own Words: _p._ 114, 115. 'Here it is necessary to observe, that the fair _Pamela_'s Trials were not yet over; but the worst of all were yet to come, at a Time when she thought them at an End, and that she was returning to her Father: For when her Master found that her Virtue was not to be subdu'd, and he had in vain tried to conquer his Passion for her, _being a Gentleman of Intrigue_, he had order'd his _Lincolnshire_ Coachman to bring his travelling Chariot from thence, not caring to trust his Body Coachman, who, with the rest of the Servants, so greatly lov'd and honour'd the fair Damsel; and having given him Instructions accordingly, and prohibited his other Servants, on Pretence of resenting _Pamela_'s Behaviour, from accompanying her any Part of the Way, he drove her Five Miles on the Way to her Father's; and then turning off, cross'd the Country, and carried her onward towards his _Lincolnshire_ Estate. It is also to be observ'd, that the Messenger of her Letters to her Father, who so often pretended Business that Way, was an Implement in his Master's Hands, and employ'd by him for that Purpose; and who always gave her Letters first to him, and his Master used to open and read them, and then send them on.'
Not to mention the little Occurrences upon the Road, the _Chaste_ Discourse at the Inn, her Interview with Mrs. _Jewkes_, &c. we now transpose the Scene from _Bedfordshire_ to the Mansion House in _Lincolnshire_, where the poor Turtle is now coop'd up; and certainly it must be allowed, that the Author has contrived to heighten his _Amorous Tale_ by just Degrees, so as at once to court the Expectation, and raise the glowing Passions 'till it is almost impossible but they must burst forth in a Blaze.