_Esop._--They say, That Lovers, for want of Words, have Eyes to speak with. I'm afraid you do not understand the Language of mine, since yours, I find, will make no Answer to 'em. But I must tell you, Lady, there is a numerous Train of youthful Virgins, that are endow'd with Wealth and Beauty too, who yet have thought it worth their Pains and Care to point their Darts at _Esop_'s homely Breast; whilst you so much contemn what they pursue, that a young senseless Fop's preferr'd before me. _Euph._ Did you but know that Fop you dare to term so, his very Looks wou'd fright you into nothing. _Esop._ A very Bauble. _Euph._ How! _Esop._ A Butterfly. _Euph._ I can't bear it. _Esop._ A Parroquet can prattle and look gaudy. _Euph._ It may be so; but let me paint him and you in your proper Colours, I'll do it exactly, and you shall judge which I ought to chuse. _Esop._ No, hold; I'm naturally not over-curious; besides, 'tis Pride makes People have their Pictures drawn. _Euph._ Upon my Word, Sir, you may have yours taken a hundred times before any Body will believe 'tis done upon that Account. _Esop._ [_Aside._] How severe she is upon me! You are resolv'd then to persist, and be fond of your Feather; sigh for a Perriwig, and die for a Cravat string. _Euph._ Methinks, Sir, you might treat with more respect what I've thought fit to own I value; your Affronts to him are doubly such to me; if you continue your provoking Language, you must expect my Tongue will sally too; and if you are as wise as some would make you, you can't but know I shou'd have Theme enough. _Esop._ But is it possible you can love so much as you pretend? _Euph._ Why do you question it? _Esop._ Because Nobody loves so much as they pretend: But hark you, young Lady: Marriage is to last a long, long Time; and where one Couple bless the sacred Knot, a Train of Wretches curse the Institution. You are in an Age where Hearts are young and tender; a pleasing Object gets Admittance soon. But since to Marriage there's annexed this dreadful Word, _For ever_, the following Example ought to move you: