she keeps him? He has confessed to me that, but at some certain
times, that is, I suppose, when she apprehends being with child, he
never has the privilege of using the familiarity of a husband with a
wife. He was once given to scrambling with his hands, and sprawling
in his sleep, and ever since she has him swaddled up in blankets,
and his hands and feet swathed down, and so put to bed; and there he
lies with a great beard, like a Russian bear upon a drift of snow.
You are very great with him, I wonder he never told you his
grievances: he will, I warrant you.

CARE. Excessively foolish! But that which gives me most hopes of
her is her telling me of the many temptations she has resisted.

MEL. Nay, then you have her; for a woman's bragging to a man that
she has overcome temptations is an argument that they were weakly
offered, and a challenge to him to engage her more irresistibly.
'Tis only an enhancing the price of the commodity, by telling you
how many customers have underbid her.

CARE. Nay, I don't despair. But still she has a grudging to you.
I talked to her t'other night at my Lord Froth's masquerade, when
I'm satisfied she knew me, and I had no reason to complain of my
reception; but I find women are not the same bare-faced and in
masks, and a vizor disguises their inclinations as much as their
faces.

MEL. 'Tis a mistake, for women may most properly be said to be
unmasked when they wear vizors; for that secures them from blushing
and being out of countenance, and next to being in the dark, or
alone, they are most truly themselves in a vizor mask. Here they