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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>John Cleland</dAuthor></byLine> </tPage> </front> <body> <div1 type='Volume' n=V1> <head>Letter The First</head> <div2 type='chapter' n=C1.1> <head>Part 1</head> <p>Madam, <p>I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerg'd, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been tost in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, wh . . .
