"However, I must beg Leave to inform those Ladies and Gentlemen, whose Tenderness and Compassion may excite 'em to make this little Brat of my Brain the Companion of an idle Hour, that I have paid all due Regard to Decency wherever I have introduc'd the Passion of Love; and have only suffer'd it to take its Course in its proper and necessary Time, without fulsomely inflaming the Minds of my young Readers, or shamefully offending those of riper Years; a Fault I have often condemn'd, when I was myself but a Girl, in some Female Poets."
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
See <u>A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke: (Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq.)</u> (London: Printed for W. Reeve; A. Dodd; E. Cook, 1755). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004842197.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;