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NOTES TO PAMELA CENSURED
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The epigraph is from Horace's Odes II. viii. 13-16: "All this but makes sport for Venus (upon my word, it does!) and for the artless Nymphs, and cruel Cupid, ever whetting his fiery darts on blood-stained stone" (Horace: The Odes and Epodes, trans. C. E. Bennett [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, Loeb Classics, 1952], p. 127).
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Little is known about James Roberts, the bookseller (see Henry R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, ed. Arundell Esdaile [Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1922], p. 255). Undoubtedly familiar with Richardson, Roberts sold the Weekly Miscellany, which Richardson printed during the 1730's, and he printed Charles Povey's Virgin in Eden (1741), which like Pamela Censured attacks the morality of Richardson's novel.
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