*There is no reason in the World to revenge upon a Lover, the Deceits of his Love; for as in War, fo in Love, Stratagems are always allow'd.

* A filly Mistress is like a weak Place, foon got, foon loft.

* Miftreffes are like Books; if you pore upon them too much, they doże you, and make you unfit for Company; but if us'd difcreetly, you are the fitter for Converfation by

them.

* Some Women pray for Husbands, that they may the better love at random.

* Many a Spark that hunts after a Mistress, often gets a Wife, and stands condemn'd to a Repentance during Life, without Redemption, except one of the two dies.

* Some People fall in love by Contagion,and meerly by converfing with the infected.

* Men do not fee, or taste, or find the thing they love; but they create it: They fashion an Idol in what Figure or Shape they please; fet it up, worfhip it, dote upon it, purfue it, and fometimes run mad for it.

The extravagant Tranfports of Love, and the wonderful Force of Nature, are uncontroulable: The one carries us out of our felves, and the other brings us back again.

Two paffionate Lovers cannot partake of other Pleasures, than those which they receive from their Love.

There is no Paffion that more excites us to every thing that is Noble and Generous, than an honest

Love.

Short abfence revives Paffions, whereas a long one destroys them.

Women

Women who preferve a Paffion for Perfons that are abfent, raise but little in thofe who fee them; and the continuation of their Love for the Abfent, is lefs an Honour to their Conftancy, than a Scandal to their Beauty..

The Love of young People is only an irregular Paffion, and boiling Defire, that has no other Object than Pleasure, and which Enjoyment diffipates.

Love comes in by the Ears, as well as by the Eyes; and therefore it is a great Indiscretion in a Man, to make a long Defcant upon his Mistress's Perfections, before his Friend.

Love has, as it were, never well establish'd his Power, till he has ruin'd that of Rea= fon.

Love begins by Love; and the greatest Friendship can never influence but a very small Paffion.

Nothing resembles true Friendship fo well, as thofe Engagements which have a fecret Love at the bottom.

We never Love truly but once, and that's the first time we Love: The following Paffions are lefs involuntary.

That Paffion which is rais'd on the fudden, is the most difficult to be curd.

That Love which encreases by degrees, is fo much like Friendship, that it can never be a violent Paf

fion.

As nice as we are in Love, we still forgive more Faults in that, than in Friendship.

We tell our Secrets in Friendship, but they flip from us in Love.

There are many Remedies to cure Love; but never a one of them is infallible.

The greatest Miracle Love can work, is to cure a Coquet Humour.

Coquets make it a Pride to be jealous of their Lovers, only to conceal their Envy of other Womer.

The reason why Lovers are but feldom uncafie in one another's Company, is because they never talk of any thing but themselves.

It is a Lover's Fault, if he is not fenfible when he ceases to be belov❜d.

A Man of Parts may love indiscreetly, but not fottishly.

The Grace of Novelty is to Love, what the Blue-mourn, or Glofs, is to the Fruits; it gives them a Luftre which is easily defac'd; and when once gone, never returns any

more.

A Fever is the propereft Simile of Love; for in both Cafes, the Degree and the Contiunance of the Difeafe is out of our Own

Power.

'Tis better for a Man fometimes to be deceiv'd in what he loves, than to be plainly dealt with.

It is as hard for a Woman to manage a fend Lover, as a cold one.

Women generally keep the first Lover, only for want of a fecond.

Men often go from Love to Ambition, but feldom come back again from Ambition te

Love.

All our Paffions engage Men in fome Faults; but thofe of Love are the moft ridiculous.

Of all violent Paffions, Love becomes a Wman beft.

In the first Paffion, Women have commonly an Affection for the Lover; but afterwards they feldom Love, but for the Pleasure of Loving

Love, tho' never fo agreeable a Faffion, pleases ftill more by the ways it takes to fhew it felf, than it does upon its own account,

Tho' Love is worn out, yet it makes both Lover and Mistress uneafie to part.

It is oftentimes much harder to forbear loving an unkind Mistress, than to bear with her cruel Ufage.

It is with old Love, as with old Age, a Man lives to all the Miferies, but is dead to all the Pleafures of Lite.

There is one kind of Love, whofe excess prevents Jealousie.

In Love, Cozening always exceeds Diftruft.

There are fome felf-conceited Fops, who, when they are in Love, entertain themfelves with their own Paffion, inftead of the Perfon that caufes it.

Marriage, Matrimony, Children.

Ealoufie betwixt Man and Wife, does but pro

voke and enflame the Appetite, as it fets the invention at work upon ways and means of giving one another the flip: And when it comes to a Tryal of Wit once, 'tis a carrying of the Caufe to gain the Point, and there's a kind of perverse fatisfaction in getting the better on't. Nay, the very will to do a thing, is as good as the thing done; and his Head is as Sick, that but Fancies the thing

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done, as if he saw the very doing of it with his own Eyes. The ways of a Woman that has a Mind to play Fast and Loofe, are as unfearchable as the very thoughts of her Heart.

A Man that's free and fingle, if he have Wit and Parts, may raife himself above his Fortune; get into Companies, and live fometimes upon the fquare with the Beft: This is more difficult to one that's hampered; for Marriage, it feems, fets all things a-right, and confines every Man to the degree of his Condition.

* Men that Marry for Riches, many times bring into their Families an Infupportable Mistress. Many Marriages prove convenient and useful; but few delightful.

* Tis much with Wedlock, as with our Elixirs and Antidotes; there goes a thoufand Ingredients to the making of the Compofition; but then if they be not tim'd, proportion'd, and prepar'd according to Art, 'tis a Clog to us rather than a Relief.

* Marriages are govern'd rather by an overruling Fatality, than any folemnity of Choice and Judgment; tho' 'tis a hard matter to find out a Woman, even at the best, that's of a juft Scantling for her Age, Perfon, Humour, and Fortune, to make a Wife of. The one fingle disparity of Years, is of it felf fufficient, without a more than ordinary Measure of Vertue and Prudence, to make a Man ridiculous.

A Wife and Children are a kind of Dicipline of Humanity; and Single Men, tho' they be many times more charitable, because their Means are lefs exhaufted, yet, on the other fide, they are more cruel and hard-hearted

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