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good family, with a moderate fortune, and you need not question being happy.
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CHAP. II.
OF THE INCONSTANCY OF WOMEN.
Whosoever resigns her virtue to gratify another's will, will not scruple the same freedom with another, to pleasure her own; for few women love so well as to love a gallant better than themselves.
She who will loss her reputation to oblige you, will hazard your love to gratify herself; and she that will do both, can never be constant.
Put no confidence in a woman that has lost her honour; for she who is without reputation, hath nothing to engage her to be faithful.
Constaney is maintained by virtue; and she that hath lost her virtue, hath nothing left to oblige her to be constant.
Shc that prefers pleasure bcforc virtue, will be constant to her lust, but not to you.
Nothing cngages a man's affeetion so much to a woman as belief of her constaney; but it is better to believe her otherwise, for then she can never deeeive you; women are sensible that constancy is more prised than beauty: but it is a maxim among their sex, to deceive us most in what we most value.
Nothing is more ridieulous than to keep a miss
