Lord _Town._ And when they fly wild about this town, Madam, pray what must the world think of 'em then? Lady _Town._ Oh! this world is not so ill-bred as to quarrel with any woman for liking it. Lord _Town._ Nor am I, Madam, a husband so well-bred, as to bear my wife's being so fond of it; in short, the life you lead, Madam---- Lady _Town._ Is, to me, the pleasantest life in the world. Lord _Town._ I should not dispute your taste, Madam, if a woman had a right to please nobody but herself. Lady _Town._ Why, whom would you have her please? Lord _Town._ Sometimes her husband. Lady _Town._ And don't you think a husband under the same obligation? Lord _Town._ Certainly. Lady _Town._ Why then we are agreed, my Lord--For if I never go abroad 'till I am weary of being at home----which you know is the case----is it not equally reasonable, not to come home till one's weary of being abroad! Lord _Town._ If this be your rule of life, Madam, 'tis time to ask you one serious question? Lady _Town._ Don't let it be long a coming then----for I am in haste. Lord _Town._ Madam, when I am serious, I expect a serious answer. Lady _Town._ Before I know the question? Lord _Town._ Psha----have I power, Madam, to make you serious by intreaty? Lady _Town._ You have. Lord _Town._ And you promise to answer me sincerely? Lady _Town._ Sincerely. Lord _Town._ Now then recollect your thoughts, and tell me seriously, Why you married me? Lady _Town._ You insist upon truth, you say? Lord _Town._ I think I have a right to it. Lady _Town._ Why then, my Lord, to give you, at once, a proof of my obedience and sincerity----I think----I married--to take off that restraint, that lay upon my pleasures, while I was a single woman. Lord _Town._ How, Madam! is any woman under less restraint after marriage, than before it? Lady _Town._ O my Lord! my Lord! they are quite different creatures! Wives have infinite liberties in life, that would be terrible in an unmarried woman to take. Lord _Town._ Name one. Lady _Town._ Fifty, if you please!----to begin then, in the morning----A married woman may have men at her toilet, invite them to dinner, appoint them a party, in a stage box at the play; ingross the conversation there, call 'em by their christian names; talk louder than the players;----From thence jaunt into the city----take a frolicksome supper at an _India_ house----perhaps in her _gaieté de cœur_ toast a pretty fellow--Then clatter again to this end of the town, break with the morning, into an assembly, croud to the hazard-table, throw a familiar _levant_ upon some sharp lurching man of quality, and if he demands his money, turn it off with a loud laugh, and cry----you'll owe it him to vex him! ha! ha! Lord _Town._ Prodigious! [_Aside._ Lady _Town._ These now, my Lord, are some few of the many modish amusements, that distinguish the privilege of a wife, from that of a single woman.