be equal Age, equal Wit, and equal Good-Humour, in the Woman of Prudence, and her of Liberty; what Stores has he to expect, who takes the former?  What Refuse must he be contented with, who chuses the latter?  Well, but I sate down to write to you to vent my Indignation against several pert Creatures who are address’d to and courted in this Place, while poor I, and two or three like me, are wholly unregarded.

Every one of these affect gaining the Hearts of your Sex:  This is generally attempted by a particular manner of carrying themselves with Familiarity. Glycera has a dancing Walk, and keeps Time in her ordinary Gate. Chloe, her Sister, who is unwilling to interrupt her Conquests, comes into the Room before her with a familiar Run. Dulcissa takes Advantage of the Approach of the Winter, and has introduc’d a very pretty Shiver; closing up her Shoulders, and shrinking as she moves.  All that are in this Mode carry their Fans between both Hands before them. Dulcissa herself, who is Author of this Air, adds the pretty Run to it; and has also, when she is in very good Humour, a taking Familiarity in throwing herself into the lowest Seat in the Room, and letting her hoop’d Petticoats fall with a lucky Decency about her.  I know she practices this way of sitting down in her Chamber; and indeed she does it as well as you may have seen an Actress fall down dead in a Tragedy.  Not the least Indecency in her Posture.  If you have observ’d what pretty Carcasses are carry’d off at the end of a Verse at the Theatre, it will give you a Notion how Dulcissa plumps into a Chair.  Here’s a little Country Girl that’s very cunning, that makes her use of being young and unbred, and outdoes the Insnarers, who are almost twice her Age.  The Air that she takes is to come into Company after a Walk, and is very successfully out of Breath upon occasion.  Her Mother is in the Secret, and calls her Romp, and then looks round to see what young Men stare at her.

’It would take up more than can come into one of your Papers, to enumerate all the particular Airs of the younger Company in this Place.  But I cannot omit Dulceorella, whose manner is the most indolent imaginable, but still as watchful of Conquest as the busiest Virgin among us.  She has a peculiar Art of staring at a young Fellow, till she sees she has got him, and inflam’d him by so much Observation.  When she sees she has him, and he begins to toss his Head upon it, she is immediately short-sighted, and labours to observe what he is at a distance with her Eyes half shut.  Thus the Captive, that thought her first struck, is to make very near Approaches, or be wholly disregarded.  This Artifice has done more Execution than all the ogling of the rest of the Women here, with the utmost Variety of half Glances, attentive Heedlessnesses, childish Inadvertencies, haughty Contempts, or artificial Oversights.  After I have said thus much of Ladies