This Lady promises _Worthy_ her Endeavours to corrupt _Amanda_; and then They make a Profane jest upon the Office.[413] In the progress of the _Play_ after a great deal of Lewd Discourse with _Lovelace_, _Berinthia_ is carried off into a Closet, and Lodged in a _Scene_ of Debauch.[414] Here is Decency, and Reservedness, to a great exactness! Monsieur _Rapin_ blames _Ariosto_, and _Tasso_, for representing two of their Women over free, and airy.[415] These _Poets_ says he, _rob Women of their Character, which is Modesty_. Mr. _Rymer_ is of the same Opinion: His words are these. _Nature knows nothing in the Manners which so properly, and particularly distinguish a Woman, as her Modesty.----An impudent Woman is fit only to be kicked, and expos'd in Comedy._[416] Now _Berinthia_ appears in _Comedy_ 'tis true; but neither to be _kick'd_, nor _expos'd_. She makes a Considerable Figure, has good Usage, keeps the best Company, and goes off without Censure, or Disadvantage. Let us now take a Turn or two with Sir _Tun-belly's_ Heiress of 1500 pounds a year. This Young Lady swears, talks smut, and is upon the matter just as rag-manner'd as _Mary the Buxsome_. 'Tis plain the _Relapser_ copyed Mr. _Durfey's_ Original, which is a sign he was somewhat Pinch'd. Now this _Character_ was no great Beauty in _Buxsome_; But it becomes the Knights Daughter much worse. _Buxsome_ was a poor Pesant, which made her Rudeness more natural, and expected. But _Deputy Lieutenants_ Children don't use to appear with the Behaviour of Beggars. To breed all People alike, and make no distinction between a _Seat_, and a _Cottage_, is not over artful, nor very ceremonious to the Country Gentlemen. The _Relapser_ gives _Miss_ a pretty Soliloquy, I'll transcribe it for _the Reader_. She swears by her Maker, _'tis well I have a Husband a coming, or I'de Marry the Baker I would so. No body can knock at the Gate, but presently I must be lock'd up, and, here's the Young Gray-hound----can run loose about the House all day long, she can, 'tis very well!_![417] Afterwards her Language is too Lewd to be quoted. Here is a Compound of Ill Manners, and Contradiction Is this a good Resemblance of Quality, a Description of a great Heiress, and the effect of a Cautious Education? By her Coarsness you would think her Bred upon a Common, and by her Confidence, in the Nursery of the _Play-house_. I suppose the _Relapser_ Fancies the calling her _Miss Hoyden_ is enough to justifie her Ill Manners. By his favour, this is a Mistake. To represent her thus unhewn, he should have suited her Condition to her Name, a little better. For there is no Charm in _Words_ as to matters of Breeding, An unfashionable Name won't make a Man a Clown. Education is not form'd upon Sounds, and Syllables, but upon Circumstances, and Quality. So that if he was resolv'd to have shown her thus unpolish'd, he should have made her keep _Sheep_, or brought her up at the _Wash-Boul_.