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VGW(HU.752.057
7 Aug 1752:11 (84)
Entertainment. . . [moral essay, 2nd paragraph:] As our
company consisted of young persons of both sexes, and quite
opposite tempers, the conversation was at first general,
'til at last confined to the old topic of constancy in love.
Malevolus and Draco at first kept the conversation entirely
to themselves, and with the ornaments of insignificant
laughs and gestures, by turns, enforc'd their arguments by
quotations out of plays and songs, which allude to the
perjuries of the fair, and the general levity of women:. . .
[6 lines] The young ladies in their turn justly retorted
upon them, the cruelty and falsity of men, repeating all the
stories they could recollect to their purpose. --I shall
never forget with what a pleasure Malevolus remembred these
lines in Otway.
"When you would give all worldly plagues a name worse than
they have already, call them wife: . . .
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