And sure, I shall not need many words to persuade you to close with this _Proposal_. The very offer is a sufficient inducement, nor does it need the set-offs of _Rhetorick_ to recommend it, were I capable, which yet I am not, of applying them with the greatest force. Since you can’t be so unkind to your selves, as to refuse your _real_ Interest, I only entreat you to be so wise as to examine wherein it consists; for nothing is of worse consequence than to be deceiv’d in a matter of so great concern. ’Tis as little beneath your Grandeur as your Prudence, to examine curiously what is in this case offer’d you, and to take care that cheating Hucksters don’t impose upon you with deceitful Ware. This is a Matter infinitely more worthy your Debates, than what Colours are most agreeable, or what’s the Dress becomes you best. Your _Glass_ will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own Minds, which will discover Irregularities more worthy your Correction, and keep you from being either too much elated or depress’d by the representations of the other. ’Twill not be near so advantageous to consult with your Dancing-Master as with your own Thoughts, how you may with greatest exactness tread in the Paths of Vertue, which has certainly the most attractive _Air_, and Wisdom the most graceful and becoming _Mien_: Let these attend you and your Carriage will be always well compos’d, and ev’ry thing you do will carry its Charm with it. No solicitude in the adornation of your selves is discommended, provided you employ your care about that which is really your _self_; and do not neglect that particle of Divinity within you, which must survive, and may (if you please) be happy and perfect, when it’s unsuitable and much inferiour Companion is mouldring into Dust. Neither will any pleasure be denied you, who are only desir’d not to catch at the Shadow and let the Substance go. You may be as ambitious as you please, so you aspire to the best things; and contend with your Neighbours as much as you can, that they may not out do you in any commendable Quality. Let it never be said, That they to whom pre-eminence is so very agreeable, can be tamely content that others shou’d surpass them in _this_, and precede them in a _better_ World! Remember, I pray you, the famous Women of former Ages, the _Orinda_’s of late, and the more Modern Heroins, and blush to think how much, is now, and will hereafter be said of them, when you your selves (as great a Figure as you make) must be buried in silence and forgetfulness! Shall your Emulation fail _there only_ where ’tis commendable? Why are you so preposterously humble, as not to contend for one of the highest Mansions in the Court of Heav’n? Believe me, Ladies, this is the only _Place_ worth contending for; you are neither better nor worse in your selves for going before, or coming after _now_; but you are really so much the better, by how much the higher your station is in an Orb of Glory.