There remain yet some things to be spoken to, but I must confess to you, _Madam_, that I am already very much tired, and I have reason to fear that you are more. When you enjoyn’d me this Task, I believe, you did not expect, I am sure, I did not intend so long a Letter. I know I have written too much, yet I leave you to judge, whether it be enough. One Experience I have gain’d by this Essay, that I find, when our Hands are in, ’tis as hard to stop ’em, as our Tongues, and as difficult not to write, as not to talk too much. I have done wondring at those _Men_, that can write huge Volumes upon slender Subjects, and shall hereafter admire their Judgment only, who can confine their Imaginations, and curb their wandring Fancies. I pretend no Obligation upon our Sex for this Attempt in their Defence; because it was undertaken at your Command, and for your Diversion only, which if I have in any measure satisfied, I have my Ambition, and shall beg nothing farther, than that my ready Obedience may excuse the mean Performance of _Madam, Your real Friend, and Most humble Servant_. THE CONTENTS. A _Argument from Providence_, p. 9. —— _from the different Make, and Temper of Body in the two Sexes_, p. 18. _Amazons, why they banisht Men_, p. 24. _Advantages of Womens Company_, p. 135. B _Bodies Organiz’d alike_, p. 12. _Brutes of both Sexes of equal sense_, p. 13. _Bully’s Character_, p. 62. _Beau’s Character_, p. 68. _Boasters of Intrigues base Fellows_, p. 115. C _Conversation, its End_, p. 7. —— _its requisite Conditions_, p. 9. _Country Squire’s Character_, p. 20. _Coffee-house Politician’s Character_, p. 87. _City Militia_, p. 92. _City Critick’s Character_, p. 119. _Complacence how acquir’d_, p. 136. D _Diffidence of themselves a great discouragement to Women_, p. 55. _Dissimulation necessary_, p. 110. —— _why most us’d by Men_, p. 112. —— _when Criminal_, p. 113. —— _How differing from deceit_, p. 114. E _Education Mens greatest advantage_, p. 6. —— _Of the Female Sex not so deficient as commonly suppos’d_, p. 36. _English Books very improving_, p. 41. —— _best helps to Conversation_, p. 47. _Envy most injurious to Virtue_, p. 116. F _Friendship, its requisite Conditions_, p. 9. _Failings falsly charg’d on Women_, p. 60. _Fools no fit Companions for Women_, p. 145. G _Gentlemen, best Writers of Morality, Humanity_, &c. p. 52. _Gallantry, how acquir’d_, p. 140. —— _How distinguisht from Complacence_, p. 142.