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6 Tk S E L F - R I V A Ii.
Ma. Lard, what does the Fellow come for ? Sure
he has not Vanity enough to think I have any Incli-
nation for him ; I believe I mall learn Discretion
from you and Lady Camphire, and refolve to live An-
gle : O Ged ! The Thoughts of a Husband fets
me a quaking like an Ague-Fit.
jptf/.Airs, Airs, my Dear, don't I know that Women
of your Years wifh for nothing more ? and Mar-
riage is certainly a State of the greateft Happinefs,
where Tempers unite.
Ma. Ha 1 ha ! ha ! I'll fwear this is very good
Doctrine to come out of your mouth.
Fal. Why I'll tell you, Maria, when I was as
young as you are, I had the very fame Fancies,
which you, and all young Ladies of Fortune have ;
was fond of my Power, and thought Submiffion a
very ftrange thing, till Time ftole on me unawares,
and now 'tis too late.
Ma. Pirn, how you talk, don't I know you have
at this time as many Lovers as ever Penelope had ?
Fal. Aye Child, Women of Fortune can never
want followers, that we may fee by Mrs. Fulfome,
whofe only Charm is Sixteen Thoufand Pounds • for
tho' fhe has a deform'd Body, a Face fcarce Human,
and a Soul more defpicable than either, there's not a
Beau at Court, an Officer in the Guards, or a Mer-
chant in the City, who does not conftantly pay their
Devoirs at her Levee.
Ma. O Ged, what depraved Appetites thofe Men
Jiave, but Madam, your Qualities and her's are ve-
ry different.
Fal. No matter, Madam, a Woman who is once
turn'd of Forty, and then puts herfelf under Co-
vert Baron, in my opinion forfeits all Pretentions to
Difcretion ; for if fhe marries a young Man, fhe's in
the Decline of her Years, before he comes to the Prime
of his'; and what Comfort there is in an old one^
flaily Experience will tell us.
Ma,