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xii own Sex, who are on this Subject much more capable than the ablet of ours.

it was the Obervation of a Lady, for whoe Opinion I have a great Veneration, that there is nothing more generally unnatural, than the Characters of Women on the Stage, and that even in our bet Plays: If this be fact, as I incerely believe it is, whence can it proceed, but from the Ignorance in which the artificial Behaviour of Women leaves us, of what really paes in their Minds, and which, like all other Myteries, is known only to the Initiated?

of the foregoing Aertions will, I quetion not, meet with very little Aent from thoe great and wie Men, who are not only abolute Maters of ome poor Woman's Peron, but likewie of her Thoughts. With uch Oppoition I mut ret contented; but what I more dread, is, that I may have unadviedly drawn the Reentment of her own lovely Sex againt the Author of thee Volumes, for having betrayed the Secrets of the Society.

this I hall attempt giving two Anwers: Firt, that thee nice Touches will, like the Signs of Maonry, ecape the Ob ervation