Narrative of the two unfortunate lovers, Miss Polly Hawkins, near Brentford, in the county of Middlesex; and William Jones, near Leeds, in Yorkshire. [electronic resource] : Being the most melancholly affair that ever happened, published as a faithful monitor to young and tender lovers; a striking lesson to fond parents; and a never-crying guide to all friends of virtue, honor, chastity, and love. I. Giving an account of her father and mother's marriage. II. Polly's birth and education. III. Her father marries a second wife, which was the occasion of her going to service. IV. Her falling in love with a banker's clerk, and her father consenting to the marriage. V. Her first lover Mr. S- taken ill of the small-pox, and dies. VI. She is taken violently ill, and is obliged to leave her place on the above occasion. VII. Her going to wait on a lady and two daughters. VIII. A remarkable intrigue which the carried on between the youngest daughter and a captain of the army, which her other sister discovers, and polly is turned away on the occasion, and goes home to her father. IX. Her getting acquainted with two sisters who lived next door to her father, which creates an intimacy with their brother, a gentleman's servant, out of place X. Her mother-in-law finds out the courtship between them, and acquaints her father of it. XI. Her father's anger on this occasion, and giving strict orders to her mother-in-law not to let her stir out of doors XII. Her lover is almost distracted at this sudden change, gets over the garden pales, and in at the parlour window, at midnight. XIII. She grants him the last favour, which terminates in their total ruin. XIV. Polly in a fit of jealousy poisons herself, and her lover followed the dreadful example. With several other remarkable circumstances, &c.
1790
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Narrative of the two unfortunate lovers, Miss Polly Hawkins, near Brentford, in the county of Middlesex; and William Jones, near Leeds, in Yorkshire. [electronic resource] : Being the most melancholly affair that ever happened, published as a faithful monitor to young and tender lovers; a striking lesson to fond parents; and a never-crying guide to all friends of virtue, honor, chastity, and love. I. Giving an account of her father and mother's marriage. II. Polly's birth and education. III. Her father marries a second wife, which was the occasion of her going to service. IV. Her falling in love with a banker's clerk, and her father consenting to the marriage. V. Her first lover Mr. S- taken ill of the small-pox, and dies. VI. She is taken violently ill, and is obliged to leave her place on the above occasion. VII. Her going to wait on a lady and two daughters. VIII. A remarkable intrigue which the carried on between the youngest daughter and a captain of the army, which her other sister discovers, and polly is turned away on the occasion, and goes home to her father. IX. Her getting acquainted with two sisters who lived next door to her father, which creates an intimacy with their brother, a gentleman's servant, out of place X. Her mother-in-law finds out the courtship between them, and acquaints her father of it. XI. Her father's anger on this occasion, and giving strict orders to her mother-in-law not to let her stir out of doors XII. Her lover is almost distracted at this sudden change, gets over the garden pales, and in at the parlour window, at midnight. XIII. She grants him the last favour, which terminates in their total ruin. XIV. Polly in a fit of jealousy poisons herself, and her lover followed the dreadful example. With several other remarkable circumstances, &c.
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London : Printed by T. Sabine, at the London and Middlesex Printing-Office, (N. 81) Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street, [1790?]
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