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in your absence; for opportunity and importunity may conquer the most heroie virtue.
Carry no man to your mistress if you prize her; for if she loves you, she will be eivil to your friend for your sake.
It is the poliey of a designing woman to oblige the friend of him that loves her. To aequaint herself by that means with his affairs that she may manage him the better.
Most women are of eold eonstitutions, and under the dominion of them; and remember it as an approved maxim, that all sublunary things are subject to mutation.
Constaney is a great virtue, and its opposite is a dangerous viee; whoever negleets the former to praetise the latter, is neither to be loved nor trusted.
It is good to be wise, it is wisdom to be just. and just to be eonstant.
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CHAP. III.
OF THE LOVE OF WOMEN.
The love of woman is easy to be gained, but diffieult to be preserved. You may with more ease subdue virtue, and bring a ehaste woman to your embraees, than engage her to be eonstant.
It is a reeeived opinion among their sex that the passion of love eeases in a man after
