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100 is, that a frolick of yours during the Saturnalia, when the laves are erved by their maters, is, eriouly, continued by them through the whole year, and through the whole coure of their lives; accompanied too with ome circumtances, which till further augment the aburdity and ridicule. Your port only elevates for a few days thoe whom fortune has thrown down, and whom he too, in port, may really elevate for ever above you. But this nation gravely exalts thoe, whom nature has ubjected to them, and whoe inferiority and infirmities are abolutely incurable. The women, though without virtue, are their maters and overeigns.'

Ah! why do women, I write with affectionate olicitude, condecend to receive a degree of attention and repect from trangers, different from that reciprocation of civility which the dictates of humanity and the politenes of civilization authorie between man and man? And, why do they not dicover, when 'in the noon of beauty's power,' that they are treated like queens only to be deluded by hollow repect, till they are led to reign, or not aume, their natural prerogatives? Confined then in cages like the feathered race, they have nothing to do but to plume themelves, and talk with mock majety from perch to perch. It is true they are provided with food and raiment, for which they neither toil nor pin; but health, liberty, and virtue, are given in exchange. But, where, amongt mankind has been found ufficient trength of mind to enable a being to reign thee adventitious prerogatives; one who, riing with the calm ty&ensp;