_Ser._ Sure this Addition of Quality must have so improv'd this Coxcomb, he can't but be very good Company for a quarter of an Hour. _Aman._ Now it moves my Pity more than my Mirth, to see a Man whom Nature has made no Fool, be so very industrious to pass for an Ass. _Lov._ No, there you are wrong, _Amanda_; you shou'd never bestow your Pity upon those who take pains for your Contempt; Pity those whom Nature abuses, but never those who abuse Nature. _Ber._ Besides, the Town wou'd be robb'd of one of its chiefest Diversions, if it shou'd become a Crime to laugh at a Fool. _Aman._ I could never yet perceive the Town inclin'd to part with any of its Diversions, for the sake of their being Crimes; but I have seen it very fond of some, I think, had little else to recommend 'em. _Ber._ I doubt, _Amanda_, you are grown its Enemy, you speak with so much warmth against it. _Aman._ I must confess I am not much its Friend. _Ber._ Then give me leave to make you mine, by not engaging in its Quarrel. _Aman._ You have many stronger Claims than that, _Berinthia_, whenever you think fit to plead your Title. _Lov._ You have done well to engage a Second, my Dear; for here comes one will be apt to call you to an Account for your Country Principles. _Enter Lord_ Foppington. _Lord Fop._ [_To Lov._] Sir, I am your most humble Servant. _Lav._ I wish you Joy, my Lord. _Lord Fop._ O Laird, Sir----Madam, your Ladyship's welcome to Tawn. _Aman._ I wish your Lordship Joy. _Lord Fop._ O Heavens, Madam---- _Lov._ My Lord, this young Lady is a Relation of my Wife's. _Lord Fop._ [_Saluting her._] The beautifullest Race of People upon Earth, Rat me. Dear _Loveless_, I am overjoy'd to see you have brought your Family to Tawn again: I am, stap my Vitals--[_Aside._] For I design to lie with your Wife. [_To Aman._] Far Gad's sake, Madam, haw has your Ladyship been able to subsist thus long, under the Fatigue of a Country Life? _Aman._ My life has been very far from that, my Lord, it has been a very quiet one. _Lord Fop._ Why that's the Fatigue I speak of, Madam: For 'tis impossible to be quiet, without thinking: Now thinking is to me the greatest Fatigue in the World. _Aman._ Does not your Lordship love reading then? _Lord Fop._ Oh, passionately, Madam----But I never think of what I read. _Ber._ Why, can your Lordship read without thinking? _Lord Fop._ O Lard----Can your Ladyship pray without Devotion----Madam? _Aman._ Well, I must own I think Books the best Entertainment in the World. _Lord Fop._ I am so much of your Ladyship's Mind, Madam, that I have a private Gallery, where I walk sometimes, is furnished with nothing but Books and Looking-glasses. Madam, I have gilded them, and rang'd 'em, so prettily, before Gad, it is the most entertaining thing in the World to walk and look upon 'em. _Aman._ Nay, I love a neat Library too; but 'tis, I think, the inside of a Book shou'd recommend it most to us.