The Amours of Philander and Sylvia, Vol. 2


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Excerpt from The Amours of Philander and Sylvia, Vol. 2: Being the Third and Last Part of Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister A 3 tweentween your Lordfhip and our miflaken brave Unfortunate, fiuce your Lordlhip hath an unquefiioned and hereditary Loyalty, which nothing can deface, born from a F ather, who has given the World fo evident Proofs, that no Fear of threatened Danger can feparate his ufeful Service and Duties from the In tereft Of. His Royal and God-like Mailer, which he purfues with an undaunted Forti rude, in Difdain Of Phanatical Cenfures, and thofe that want the Bravery to do a juft Aetion for fear Of future Turns Of State. And foch indeed is your. True Alan of Honour and as fuch I doubt not but your Lordfhip will acquit yourfelf in all Times, and on all Cc lions. Pardon the Liberty, my Zeal. For your Lordlhip has here prefumed to take, time among all thofe that make Vows and Pray ers for your Lordlhip's Health and 'prefer vation, none offers them more devoutly than. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister. (Love-Letters from a Noble-man to his Sister: mixt with the history of their adventures.-The Amours of Philander and Silvia: being the third and last part of the Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister.) Letters supposed to have passed between Ford Grey, Earl of Tankerville, and his sister-in-law Lady Henrietta Berkeley, but in reality written by Aphra Behn. The dedicatory epistle in vol. 2 and 3 signed A. B., i.e. Aphra Behn


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Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister


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"Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" by Aphra Behn is based loosely on an affair between Ford, Lord Grey of Werke, and his wife's sister, Lady Henrietta Berkeley, a scandal that broke in London at its time. Silvia, a young beautiful woman, is wooed by Philander, her brother-in-law, in an "incestuous" affair. The plot is about the slow decline of honor and nobility, as well as the psychological effects of love.[9] The novel is told through letters between Silvia and Philander that give a deeply personal nature to the affair.