"You see, being I am in love, I am willing to be so in order and rule: I have been turning over God knows how many books to look for precedents. Recommend an example to me; and, let me know whether ‘tis most proper to walk in the woods, encreasing the winds with my sighs, or to sit by a purling stream, swelling the rivulet with my tears"
~ Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Anne Wortley (1709)