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( 24 ) frequent in this ſeaſon.

In the firſt place, I would adviſe them neve to venture abroad in the fields, but in the company of a parent, a guardian, or ſome other ſober diſcreet perſon. I have before ſhewn how ap they are to trip in a flow'ry meadow.

As I have often declared, that I have nothing more at heart than the honour of my dear country-women. I would beg them to conſider, whenever their reſolutions begin to tail them, that there are but one and thirty days of this ſoft ſeaſon, and that if they can but weather out this one month, the reſt of the year will be eaſy to them. As for that part of the fair ſex who ſtay in town, I would adviſe them to be particulary cautious how they give themſelves up o' their moſt innocent entertainments. If they cannot forbear the play-house, I would recommend tradgedy them, rather than comedy, and ſhould thus the puppet-ſhow much later for them than the opera, all the while the ſun is in Gemini.

The reader wil obſerve, that this paper i written for the uſe of thoſe ladies, who think it worth while to war againſt nature in the cauſe of honour. As for that abandoned crew, who do not think virtue worth contending for, but giae up their reputation at the firſt ſummons, ſuch warnings and premonition are thrown a way upon them. A proſtitute is the ſame eaſy creature in all months of the year, and makes no difference between May and December.

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