[Footnote 350: Miss Prue: "Well, and there's a handsome gentleman, and a fine gentleman, and a sweet gentleman, that was here, that loves me, and I love him; and if he sees you speak to me any more, he'll thrash your jacket for you, he will; you great sea-calf." Ben: "What! do you mean that fair-weather spark that was here just now? Will he thrash my jacket? Let'n, let'n, let'n--but an he comes near me, mayhap I may give him a salt-eel for's supper, for all that. What does father mean, to leave me alone, as soon as I come home with such a dirty dowdy? Sea-calf! I an't calf enough to lick your chalked face, you cheese-curd you."--Ibid. III. 7.] [Footnote 351: Congreve's "Love for Love," V. 6.] [Footnote 352: Congreve, "The Way of the World," III. 5.] [Footnote 353: Ibid. IV.] [Footnote 354: Congreve, "The Double-dealer," II. 5.] [Footnote 355: Congreve, "The Way of the World."] [Footnote 356: Ibid. II. 6.] [Footnote 357: Ibid. III. 11.] [Footnote 358: Congreve, "The Way of the World," IV. 5.] [Footnote 359: Ibid. IV. 6.] [Footnote 360: Amanda: "How did you live together?" Berinthia: "Like man and wife, asunder.--He loved the country, I the town. He hawks and hounds, I coaches and equipage. He eating and drinking, I carding and playing. He the sound of a horn, I the squeak of a fiddle. We were dull company at table, worse a-bed. Whenever we met, we gave one another the spleen; and never agreed but once, which was about lying alone."--Vanbrugh, "Relapse," Act II. ad fin. Compare Vanbrugh, "A Journey to London." Rarely has the repulsiveness and corruption of the brutish or worldly nature been more vividly displayed. Little Betty and her brother. Squire Humphrey, deserve hanging. Again. Mrs. Foresight: "Do you think any woman honest?" Scandal: "Yes, several very honest; they'll cheat a little at cards, sometimes; but that's nothing." Mrs. F.: "Pshaw! but virtuous, I mean." S.: "Yes, faith; I believe some women are virtuous too; but 'tis as I believe some men are valiant, through fear. For why should a man court danger or a woman shun pleasure?"--Congreve, "Love for Love," III. 14.] [Footnote 361: Vanbrugh, "Provoked Wife," V. 2. Compare also in this piece the character of Mademoiselle, the French chambermaid. They represent French vice as even more shameless than English vice.] [Footnote 362: Farquhar's "The Beaux Stratagem," I. 1; and in the same piece here is the catechism of love: "What are the objects of that passion?--youth, beauty, and clean linen." And from the "Mock Astrologer" of Dryden: "As I am a gentleman, a man about town, one that wears good clothes, eats, drinks, and wenches sufficiently."] [Footnote 363: Congreve, "The Way of the World," II. 4.] [Footnote 364: The part of Chaplain Foigard in Farquhar's "Beaux Stratagem": of Mademoiselle, and generally of all the French people.] [Footnote 365: The part of Amanda in Vanbrugh's "Relapse"; of Mrs. Sullen; the conversion of two roisterers, in the "Beaux Stratagem."]