* A Jealous Husband who finds out his Wife, gets this by the bargain, That it cures him of his Jealoufie, which is one of the worst Tormenters a Man can have; and who would not bear with a fawcy Companion, to get rid of the Devil.

* Women will chufe to Intrigue with a Man that wants Senfe, rather than with one that wants Manners and Difcretion.

* Women are generally undone by their own Sex, more than by ours.

The weakeft Judgments have the strongest Paffions.

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"Why do you wonder at Cefius's marrying Glyceria: 'tis true fhe has improved her Fortune by the Venture of her Reputation; but has not Čefius done the fame? And is he not as vile a "Wretch, as fhe a mercenary Gilt? Methinks "they are extreamly well Match'd.

"The predominant Paffion in a Woman, is the "vanity of being talk'd of: Cefonia is fo far from being difpleas'd to find her Name in the Tun"bridge Lampoon, that the difperfes it herself.

* Women would be an ufeful as well as agreeable Amusement to Mankind, if they did not make fo deep an Impreffion.

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Moft Women are as eager to Marry a Fool, "as moft Men to marry a Fortune.

A Woman is never indifferent as long as fhe complains of the Falfhood of her Lover; for if "fhe did not retain an Affection for the Vowbreaker, fhe would not be uneafie at his Perfidi"oufnefs.

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"Tis hard to determine which is more trouble"fome to undergo to a Man, of Senfe, either the "extream Reserve and Shynefs of fome Women "before they yield; or their Fondness after they "have yielded.

*The reafon why Women have a greater fhare in State Intrigues in France, than they generally have in England, is, becaufe France is Govern'd by Men, and England by Laws; the former they know how to manage, the latter they are not bred to understand.

* Women are generally cheated in their firft Intrigue, as Men are commonly bubbled when they first enter upon Play.

"To give a true Reafon of Conftancy and Incon"fancy, is more the bufinefs of an Anatomift, or "Naturalift, than of a Moral Philofopher; for they "rather depend upon the Frame of the Body, than "the Conftitution of the Mind.

*The best Stomachs can eat longest of the fame Dife, for which Reafon perhaps, Women are gene rally more Conftant than Men.

* What Women call Inconftancy in us, is not an Argument of Levity, but their infufficiency to Please.

*Love is often begun without Defign, and carried on we know not why.

"There are few Women that would not rather " choose to be Divorc'd from their Husbands, than 66 to lose their Gallants.

"If Divorce was to be come by without the “trouble of fuing for an Act of Parliament, D 3 " 'twould

"twould raise the Pleafures of a Married Life, and fink the Delights of Intriguing.

"When a Shrew turns complaifant, 'tis an in"fallible fign fhe Cuckolds her Husband. My "Lord Toper woud never have fufpected his "Wife's Intriguing with Horatio, had not fhe begun to be lefs Imperious and Domineering.

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A Woman's Chaftity is not to be endur'd where the expects an uncontrolable Authority for it.

40 "To give the Women their due, few of them "are falfe till their Husbands provoke them « to it.

'Tis the most unpardonable Sin in the World, to tell a Woman that she's Old. My Lord A who was a great Courtier, us'd to fay to his Lady every New-year's day, Well, Madam, How Old will your Ladyfhip be pleas'd to be this Year?

We can't properly call that Man a Cuckold, who knows nothing of his being fo. My Lord Whiffler's Wife is, to outward appearance, a Saint, but at bottom, the most infatiable Thais that ever grac'd a Court: Yet my Lord Whiffler drinks merrily, Snoars contentedly, and believes her Honeft. Tother day he made a Vifit to Clorider, whofe Wife denies her felf no innocent Freedoms, but is as Chaft as a Veftal. Lord! cry's my Lord Whif fler to himfelf, what an unlucky Wretch is Cloridor, to have fuch a Viper in his Bofom! and how happy I with my innocent Turtle!

The Marriage Ceremony is perform'd in most Countries by the Priefts, who, if they equally pretended to the power of Loofing, as they do to that of Tying, they would have more Business upon their Hands.

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As nothing is fo Honourable as an ancient Friendfhip, fo nothing is fo Scandalous as an old Paffion. Conftancy oftentimes brings the Reputation of a Lady's Beauty and Merit in queftion; for, who knows whether the refolv'd to Love but one Perfon, or whether it was her misfortune to make but one fingle Conqueft?

There's a vaft difference between the Difgufts that an old Engagement gives us, and the pleasant Inquietudes of a growing Paffion. In a new Amour, we pafs every Hour of the day with fresh Satisfaction. 'Tis an unexpreffible Pleasure to find that our Love grows upon us every Minute, but in a Paffion of an old tanding, our time is spent very uneafily, in ftill loving lefs, or not loving at all.

Either common Civility, or good Manners, of the confideration of our private Interefts, inay make us live well enough with Perfons that are indifferent to us: But how miferably do we pafs our Lives either with them whom we love, when we find that we are not Belov'd again, or with thofe we once have Lov'd, when we find we can Love them no longer?

Emilia is an antiquated Maid, Cenforious and Deform'd; fhe has often bribd Midwives and other Goflips to proclaim her for a great Fortune, and twenty times given Money to be join'd in a Lampoon, with twenty fparks one after another, to try if fomething would come out. But after all her Intriguing, fhe could never yet find any one Cully enough to Marry her: Yet fhe perpetually tells every one the fees, what advantageous Matches fhe has refus'd in her time, fuch a Lord

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a Lord Languifh'd, and fuch a Knight ran Mad for her.

""Tis Riches or Poverty after all, that makes "either the Vice or Vertue. A Prince's Mistress "lives in the Grand Monde; and has a fplendid "Equipage; is admitted to the Circle, and keeps "her Vifiting-day, where the most Referv'd and Vertuous, difdain not to refort. Whereas, a poor Gilt is fhunn'd by all her Sex, and is fain to cringe to a Scoundrel Drawer at the Rofe, to be introduc'd to a drunken Cully,

We were going to the Government of the young Marchionefs Emilia's Husband, where the was expected, and great Preparations were made on the Road for her Reception; and the old Marchioness Sophia a Widow of Fifty, Travelling as her Companion,had her fhare of all the Honours and Civilities that were paid to the other. At the first City where we arriv'd, as foon as we had alighted out of the Coach, Emilia was invited to a very pleafant Walk, and a Collation without the Town; and it being Summer-time, the embrac'd the Mo tion: But Sophia taking an Air of Authority upon her, faid, It would be much better to go to Church, and bear a good Sermon there. Emilia told her, She might go thither if the pleas'd, while fhe took a Walk. This Anfwer cruelly nettled the Widow, but fhe diffembled the Matter as well as The could, and taking the next way to the Church, The defir'd me to bear her Company thither. Although this fit of Devotion feem'd fomewhat unfeasonable to me, yet good Manners would not fuffer me to let her walk alone, So with her I

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