A Visit, Major, from a Person of your incessant Negotiations, and refin'd Politicks is a Grace so peculiar, that I want Assurance to receive it, and Capacity to acknowledge it. _Bram._ 'Tis for my Improvement, Madam, to address a Lady whose superiour Talents so much excel those Politicks, her condescending Goodness pleases to commend in me. The great Monarch o'_France_ thinks it his int'rest on ev'ry nice point o'State to visit the greater Madam _Maintenon_. L. _Toss._ [_aside_] Nay, I always read the Votes, and can tell what _nemine contradicente_ means. I vow the Major's Oratory is extravagantly well dress'd! I wonder, Sir, your transcending Abilities are not more taken notice of at Court! Methinks you shou'd be sent Ambassadour Extraordinary to some magnanimous Prince in _Terra Incognita_; for I'm certain, you must understand more Languages than were ever heard of. _Bram._ Int'rest, Madam, as much depresses true Merit, as a flutt'ring Assurance over pow'rs real Beauty, otherwise my Intellects might shine as much above modern Statesmen as your Ladyship's Person wou'd out sparkle Lady _Rodomont_'s. L. _Toss._ D'you really think, Major, my Personage more complete than my Lady's? _Bram._ Madam, there's no more comparison between Lady _Rodomont_ and your Ladyship, than between a dazling Dutchess and a _Wapping_ Head-dresser: If the surprizing Sight, and continual Idea of your Ladyship had not discompos'd my Thoughts and confounded my Politicks, the Confederates had never taken _Lisle_. L. _Toss._ Indeed, Major, I'm very sorry for it truly [_aside_]. D'you hear, _Flimsy_, you will have me lay it on so thick; but I hope 'twill be retaken agen. _Bram._ Is your Ladyship disaffected, then, to the Government? L. _Toss._ The most of any body, for I have been three times at Court, and they have brought me no Chocolate. _Bram._ 'Twas a prodigious Affront; and if you'll believe me, Madam, I'm disaffected to ev'ry kind o'thing but your Ladyship. L. _Toss._ What if we adjourn into the Drawing-Room Major? We'll sit upon the Squabb, drink Whistlejacket, and abuse all Mankind. _Bram._ Nature, Madam, has sufficiently expos'd all Mankind, in forming your Ladyship so far beyond 'em. [_Exeunt._ SCENE _Changes to Lady_ Rodomonts. _Enter Lady_ Rodomont, _and the_ Collonel. L. _Rod._ _Collonel_, I sent for you to wish you Joy, I hear you're to be marry'd. _Coll._ [_aside._] It works I find; Sir _Harry_'s Thought was admirable-- Yes, Madam, your Ladyship made such fine Encomiums on Matrimony, with so much Rhetorick, and force of Reason, that you have persuaded me into that comfortable State. La. _Rod._ I persuade you, did I use any Arguments to persuade you to't. [_Aside._] How he tortures me; but I'll be calm--Have I seen the Lady, _Collonel_; did she ever appear in Company; pray how is she built.