Lady has ever been to inflame your Wishes, and yet command Respect.  To make her Mistress of this Art, she has a greater Share of Knowledge, Wit, and good Sense, than is usual even among Men of Merit.  Then she is beautiful beyond the Race of Women.  If you won’t let her go on with a certain Artifice with her Eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.  It is certain that if you were to behold the whole Woman, there is that Dignity in her Aspect, that Composure in her Motion, that Complacency in her Manner, that if her Form makes you hope, her Merit makes you fear.  But then again, she is such a desperate Scholar, that no Country-Gentleman can approach her without being a Jest.  As I was going to tell you, when I came to her House I was admitted to her Presence with great Civility; at the same time she placed her self to be first seen by me in such an Attitude, as I think you call the Posture of a Picture, that she discovered new Charms, and I at last came towards her with such an Awe as made me Speechless.  This she no sooner observed but she made her Advantage of it, and began a Discourse to me concerning Love and Honour, as they both are followed by Pretenders, and the real Votaries to them.  When she [had] discussed these Points in a Discourse, which I verily believe was as learned as the best Philosopher in Europe could possibly make, she asked me whether she was so happy as to fall in with my Sentiments on these important Particulars.  Her Confident sat by her, and upon my being in the last Confusion and Silence, this malicious Aid of hers, turning to her, says, I am very glad to observe Sir ROGER pauses upon this Subject, and seems resolved to deliver all his Sentiments upon the Matter when he pleases to speak.  They both kept their Countenances, and after I had sat half an Hour meditating how to behave before such profound Casuists, I rose up and took my Leave.  Chance has since that time thrown me very often in her Way, and she as often has directed a Discourse to me which I do not understand.  This Barbarity has kept me ever at a Distance from the most beautiful Object my Eyes ever beheld.  It is thus also she deals with all Mankind, and you must make Love to her, as you would conquer the Sphinx, by posing her.  But were she like other Women, and that there were any talking to her, how constant must the Pleasure of that Man be, who could converse with a Creature—­But, after all, you may be sure her Heart is fixed on some one or other; and yet I have been credibly inform’d; but who can believe half that is said!  After she had done speaking to me, she put her Hand to her Bosom, and adjusted her Tucker.  Then she cast her Eyes a little down, upon my beholding her too earnestly.  They say she sings excellently:  her Voice in her ordinary Speech has something in it inexpressibly sweet.  You must know I dined with her at a publick Table the Day after I first saw her, and she helped