The Cautious Lover: Complete 2 Volumes

The Cautious Lover: or, The History of Lord Woburn, by a Young Gentleman of Oxford. - 2 volumes; edited for the first time in 1772. Lord Woburn, having a very bad opinion of women in general, from their present mode of behavior, and feeling his apprehensions strengthened by the disappointment which an intimate friend of his had met with (as the lady on whom he had fixed his affections, indiscreetly granted him the last favour, while the preparations were making for her marriage) yet having a strong wish for a domestic life, wishes to be settled in a matrimonial way. At the house of a common friend he happens to fall in with lady Charlotte Morden : with her he is extremely pleased, but fearing that the may be as frail as the is alluring, is very loth to encourage his rifing inclination for her. Finding, however, many unusual proofs of her discretion, during their residence together under the same roof.