The frontispiece to the volume shows the Nun seated at a table in the act of writing; upon the table is a lighted candle, rosary and ink-pot, while the portrait of her lover hangs over some book-shelves. The engraving is unsigned, and seems to be different from any of those hitherto recorded.
LOVE-LETTERS
FROM
A NUN TO A CAVALIER
LETTER I
Oh! the unhappy Joys which Love contains,
How short the Pleasures, and how long the Pains!
Curs’d be the treach’rous Hopes that drew me on,
And made me fondly to my Ruin run.
What I the Blessing of my Life design’d
Is now become the Torment of my Mind: