vain Coquet, that loves a Croud of Followers, invites and smiles, that
drills 'em to admire her; then basely, like a false dissembling
_Crocodile_, prevaricates, and jilts their well-meant Passion.

La. _Rod._ Hum!

_Col._ She's rich and beautiful, yet humble too, thinks herself not the
_Phoenix_ o' the Age, nor seems surpriz'd, or mortify'd, to find Ladies a
multitude that far excel her.

La. _Rod._ Very well.

_Col._ In short, She has Sense to know a Gentleman that offers Love
sincere, whose Character maintains his just Pretensions, ought to be
treated with the like Regard; and that a faithful and a tender Husband
sufficiently repays the Dross of Fortune.

La. _Rod._.[_Aside._] He has drawn me to the Life, but I'll return it--
Such humble things make admirable Wives, and Women when they marry
hectoring Blades, must buy their Peace with wond'rous Condescension, but
when a Lady's unexception'd Graces, artless, immaculate, and universal,
impow'r her to select thro' ev'ry Clime; nay, when she grasps the fickle
Pow'r of Fortune, and is to raise the Man she stoops to wed, Lovers must
sue on more submissive Terms; no Task's too hard when Heav'n's the Reward.
I have a Lover too, no blust'ring Red-Coat, that thinks at the first Onset
he must plunder, bullies his Mistresses, and beats his Men; but when two
Armies meet in Line of Battle, your finest _Collonels_ often prove the
coolest.

_Col._ Hah!