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    The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
    The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
    The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
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    The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1

    By Hurlothrumbo and George Robert Guffey

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Merry-Thought - Hurlothrumbo

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and

      Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1, by Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]

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      Title: The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1

      Author: Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]

      Commentator: George R. Guffey

      Contributor: James Roberts

      Release Date: February 11, 2007 [EBook #20558]

      Language: English

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      The texts cited use a variety of long and short dashes, generally with no relationship to the number of letters omitted. For this e-text, short dashes are separated, while longer dashes are connected:

      D---n Molley H——ns for her Pride.

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      THE

      MERRY-THOUGHT:

      OR, THE

      Glass-Window and Bog-House

      MISCELLANY.

      Part I

      (1731)

      Introduction by

      George R. Guffey

      Publication Number

      216

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1982

      Editor's Introduction

      Title Page

      Dedication

      The Merry-Thought, Part I

      GENERAL EDITOR

      David Stuart Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

      EDITORS

      Charles L. Batten, University of California, Los Angeles

      George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles

      Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles

      Thomas Wright, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia

      William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Earl Miner, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

      Frances M. Reed, University of California, Los Angeles

      INTRODUCTION

      For modern readers, one of the most intriguing scenes in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) occurs during the courtship of Moll by the man who is to become her third husband. Aware that the eligible men of her day have little interest in prospective wives with small or nonexistent fortunes, Moll slyly devises a plan to keep her relative poverty a secret from the charming and (as she has every reason to believe) wealthy plantation owner who has fallen in love with her. To divert attention from her own financial condition, she repeatedly suggests that he has been courting her only for her money. Again and again he protests his love. Over and over she pretends to doubt his sincerity.

      After a series of exhausting confrontations, Moll's lover begins what is to us a novel kind of dialogue:

      One morning he pulls off his diamond ring and writes upon the glass of the sash in my chamber this line:

      You I love and you alone.

      I read it and asked him to lend me the ring, with which I wrote under it thus:

      And so in love says every one.

      He takes his ring again and writes another line thus:

      Virtue alone is an estate.

      I borrowed it again, and I wrote under it:

      But money's virtue, gold is fate.¹

      After a number of additional thrusts and counterthrusts of this sort, Moll and her lover come

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