Enter _Raymond_ a Noble-man in the _Spanish Fryar_.[336] _O Vertue! Vertue! What art thou become? That men should leave thee for that Toy a woman, Made from the dross and refuse of a Man; Heaven took him sleeping when he made her too, Had Man been waking he had nee'r consented._ I did not know before that a Man's Dross lay in his _Ribs_; I believe sometimes it lies Higher. But the Philosophy, the Religion, and the Ceremony of these Lines, are too tender to be touched. _Creon_ a Prince in _Oedipus_,[337] railes in General at the _Sex_, and at the same time is violently in Love with _Euridice_. This upon the Matter, is just as natural, as 'tis Civil. If any one would understand what the _Curse of all tender hearted Women is, Belmour_ will inform him. What is it then? 'Tis the _Pox_.[338] If this be true, the Women had need lay in a stock of ill Nature betimes. It seems 'tis their only preservative. It guards their Virtue, and their Health, and is all they have to trust to. _Sharper_ another Man of Sense in this _Play_, talks much at the same rate. _Belinda_ would know of him _where he got that excellent Talent of Railing_? Sharp. _Madam the Talent was Born with me.----I confess I have taken care to improve it, to qualifie me for the Society of Ladies._[339] _Horner_, a Topping _Character_ in the _Country Wife_, is advised to _avoid Women, and hate them as they do him_. _He Answers._ _Because I do hate them, and would hate them yet more, I'll frequent e'm; you may see by Marriage, nothing makes a Man hate a Woman more than her Constant Conversation._[340] There is still something more Coarse upon the _Sex_ spoken by _Dorax_[341] but it is a privileged Expression, and as such I must leave it. The _Relapse_ mends the Contrivance of the Satir, refines upon the Manner, and to make the Discourse the more probable, obliges the Ladies to abuse themselves. And because I should be loath to tire the _Reader, Berenthia_ shall close the Argument. This Lady having undertook the Employment of a _Procuress_, makes this remark upon it to her self. Berinth. _So here is fine work! But there was no avoiding it.----Besides, I begin to Fancy there may be as much Pleasure in carrying on another Bodies Intrigue, as ones own. This is at least certain, It exercises almost all the Entertaining Faculties of a Woman. For there is Employment for Hypocrisie, Invention, Deceit, Flattery, Mischief, and Lying._