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it to the censure of the company, in such awkward gestures, and uneouth behaviours, sueh peremptory sentenees, and impertinent loquaeities, that offend the eyes and ears of all that have either modesty or prudenee. Nothing shows the want of judgment more than female pride, which is doubtless, nourished by the vain conceits of their own beauty, and begets sueh a self-love grounded upon self-opinion, that they look upon their whole sex beside with envy and contempt, and, like Narcissus, daily doat on the reflection of their own imaginary exeelleneies. Cast not your eye too often upon sueh women, for they are ehangeable mistresses, implaeable wives, and ill mothers to their ehildren.
A proud woman, like an imprudent prinee, always loves him best by whom she is most flattered.
If you aim at the favours of a lofty mistress, you must highly extol her person and parts, and eoineide with her opinion in all things, though ever so opposite to reason: for flattery and humility must be the supporters of your interest.
Let pride in a fine woman antieipate your admiration; for never admire her who admires herself too much; coneeive her as a large looking-glass eracked, by which single defcet it is rendered of small value, by reason it can never be mended.
