641 - Judith Cowper to Martin Madan
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Wensday Noon
You are this moment gone – Happy Creature!
How easy you are – you stay’d long enough, & I did not wish you
would stay longer, but wt occasion was there for you to show such an
impatience to get away – don’t ye remember how yr company once
waited for you at ye Lumber House, there was more reason for your
hast then, & yet you stay’d – but then, I ought to reflect, you did not
{^know} whether I wish’d you should stay or not; you know all ye folly of
my heart now - & if you are true to your sex & grow indifferent, I must
not blame you; yet sure, Madan, you have uncommon obligations to me,
you were very grave, had yu heard any ill news by to Days post? if
you had (you say you have a freindship for me – does not yt imply
Trust & confidence?) why did not you tell it me? I shall Expect to
hear from you to morrow by ten a Clock, excuse your self if you can
& in ye mean time, don’t Laugh at this fresh instance of my Folly.
Adiue, you are ye first man yt Ever had ye power to make me feel
a moments pain.
J Cowper
You are this moment gone – Happy Creature!
How easy you are – you stay’d long enough, & I did not wish you
would stay longer, but wt occasion was there for you to show such an
impatience to get away – don’t ye remember how yr company once
waited for you at ye Lumber House, there was more reason for your
hast then, & yet you stay’d – but then, I ought to reflect, you did not
{^know} whether I wish’d you should stay or not; you know all ye folly of
my heart now - & if you are true to your sex & grow indifferent, I must
not blame you; yet sure, Madan, you have uncommon obligations to me,
you were very grave, had yu heard any ill news by to Days post? if
you had (you say you have a freindship for me – does not yt imply
Trust & confidence?) why did not you tell it me? I shall Expect to
hear from you to morrow by ten a Clock, excuse your self if you can
& in ye mean time, don’t Laugh at this fresh instance of my Folly.
Adiue, you are ye first man yt Ever had ye power to make me feel
a moments pain.
J Cowper
Wednesday Noon
You are this moment gone – Happy Creature!
How easy you are – you stayed long enough, & I did not wish you
would stay longer, but wt occasion was there for you to show such an
impatience to get away – don’t ye remember how yr company once
waited for you at ye Lumber House, there was more reason for your
hast then, & yet you stayed – but then, I ought to reflect, you did not
{^know} whether I wished you should stay or not; you know all ye folly of
my heart now - & if you are true to your sex & grow indifferent, I must
not blame you; yet sure, Madan, you have uncommon obligations to me,
you were very grave, had yu heard any ill news by to Days post? if
you had (you say you have a friendship for me – does not yt imply
Trust & confidence?) why did not you tell it me? I shall Expect to
hear from you to morrow by ten a Clock, excuse your self if you can
& in ye mean time, don’t Laugh at this fresh instance of my Folly.
Adieu, you are ye first man yt Ever had ye power to make me feel
a moments pain.
J Cowper
You are this moment gone – Happy Creature!
How easy you are – you stayed long enough, & I did not wish you
would stay longer, but wt occasion was there for you to show such an
impatience to get away – don’t ye remember how yr company once
waited for you at ye Lumber House, there was more reason for your
hast then, & yet you stayed – but then, I ought to reflect, you did not
{^know} whether I wished you should stay or not; you know all ye folly of
my heart now - & if you are true to your sex & grow indifferent, I must
not blame you; yet sure, Madan, you have uncommon obligations to me,
you were very grave, had yu heard any ill news by to Days post? if
you had (you say you have a friendship for me – does not yt imply
Trust & confidence?) why did not you tell it me? I shall Expect to
hear from you to morrow by ten a Clock, excuse your self if you can
& in ye mean time, don’t Laugh at this fresh instance of my Folly.
Adieu, you are ye first man yt Ever had ye power to make me feel
a moments pain.
J Cowper
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Judith Cowper to Martin Madan
Further discussion of courtship and feelings, with emotions rooted in the body, including the heart. Madan has just left her, and she wonders why he did not wish to stay longer. Had he received bad news by the post, and if so, why did he not confide in her? She described his as the only man who has managed to cause her pain.
Madan Family
Eng Letter C.284 f.129
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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[England]
[England]
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- conflictual
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- main body
- opening
- throughout (inconsistent)
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Person: Martin Madan
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- laughing
- talking
- visiting
- easy
- hurried
- happy
- low
self
courting
Person: Judith Madan
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heart
- feeling
- love (romantic)
- low
- regret
- worried
- confused
- self
pain
courting