soe liberall a provision made you for yr maintainance -but ye reason you give for yr resolution I cannot at all approve for you say "to spend more you can't" thats because you have it not to spend, otherwise it seems you would. So yt 'tis yr Grandmothrs scre- tion & not yours tht keeps you from extravagency, which plainly appears in ye close of yr sentence, saying yt you think it simple covetousness to save out of yrs but 'tis my opinion if you lay all on yr back 'tis ten tymcs a greater sin & shame thn to save come what out of soe large an allowance in yr purse to help you at a dead lift. Child, we all know our beginning, but who knows his end? Ye best use tht can be made of fair weathr is to provide against foule & 'tis great discretion & of noe small commendations for a young woman betymes to show herself housewifly & frugal. Yr Mother neither Maide nor wife ever yett bestowed forty pounds a ycare on herself & yett if you never fall undr a worse reputation in ye world thn she (I thank God for it) hath hitherto done, you need not repine at it, & you can- not be ignorant of ye difference tht was between my fortune & what you are to expect. You ought like- wise to consider tht you have seven brothers & sisters & you are all one man's children & therefore it is very unreasonable that one should expect to be pre- ferred in finery soe much above all ye rest for 'tis impossible you should soc much mistake rr ffather's condition as to fancy he is able to allow every one of you forty pounds a yeare a piece, for such an allowance with the charge of their diett over and abov
