All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn entire in one volume : together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn never before printed / by one of the fair sex ; intermix'd with pleasant love-letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Brun, a Dutch merchant, with her character of the countrey and lover : and her love-letters to a gentleman in England.

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Title: All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn entire in one volume : together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn never before printed / by one of the fair sex ; intermix'd with pleasant love-letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Brun, a Dutch merchant, with her character of the countrey and lover : and her love-letters to a gentleman in England.
Author: Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Publication: London :: Printed for Samuel Briscoe ...,; 1698.
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The Example.

Damon, if you wou'd have me true,
Be you my President and Guide:
Example sooner we pursue,
Than the dull Dictates of our Pride.
Precepts of Vertue are too weak an Aim:
'Tis Demonstration, that can best reclaim.

Shew me the Path you'd have me go;
With such a Guide, I cannot stray:
What you approve, whate'er you do,
It is but just I bend the Way.
If true, my Honour favours your Design:
If false, Revenge is the Result of mine,

A Lover true, a Maid sincere,
Are to be priz'd, as Things Divine:
'Tis Justice makes the Blessing dear;
Justice of Love, without Design.
And she that Reigns not in a Heart alone,
Is never safe, or easie, on her Throne.