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 good family, with a moderate fortune, and you need not question being happy.

resigns her virtue to gratify another's will, will not scruple the same freedom with another, to pleasure her own; for few women love so well as to love a gallant better than themselves.

She who will loss her reputation to oblige you, will hazard your love to gratify herself; and she that will do both, can never be constant.

Put no confidence in a woman that has lost her honour; for she who is without reputation, hath nothing to engage her to be faithful.

ConstaneyConstancy [sic] is maintained by virtue; and she that hath lost her virtue, hath nothing left to oblige her to be constant.

ShcShe [sic] that prefers pleasure bcforcbefore [sic] virtue, will be constant to her lust, but not to you.

Nothing cngagesengages [sic] a man's affeetionaffection [sic] so much to a woman as belief of her constaneyconstancy [sic]; but it is better to believe her otherwise, for then she can never deeeivedeceive [sic] you; women are sensible that constancy is more prised than beauty: but it is a maxim among their sex, to deceive us most in what we most value.

Nothing is more ridieulousridiculous [sic] than to keep a miss