Nor shall we lead the Reader into any Mistake concerning this part of our Work, as if this was or is meant to be a particular Satyr upon the D-----ss of -----------, and upon her only, as if we had no DEVILS among us in the Phenomena of fair Ladies, but this one: If Satan would be so honest to us as he might be (and 'twou'd be very ingenuous in him, that must be acknowledg'd, to give us a little of his Illumination in this Case) we should soon be able to unmasque a great many notable Figures among us, to our real Surprize. Indeed 'tis a Point worth our further Enquiry, and would be a Discovery many ways to our Advantage, were we bless'd with it, to see how many real _Devils_ we have walking up and down the World in Masque, and how many Hoop-Petticoats compleat the entire Masque that disguises the Devil in the Shape of that Thing call'd Woman. As for the Men, Nature has satisfied her self in letting them be their own Disguise, and in suffering them to act the _old Women_, as old Women are vulgarly understood, in Matters of Council and Politicks; but if at any time they have Occasion for the _Devil_ in Person, they are oblig'd to call him to their Aid in such Shape as he pleases to make use of _pro hac vice_; and of all those Shapes, the most agreeable to him seems to be that of a Female of Quality, in which he has infinite Opportunity to act to Perfection, what Part soever he is call'd in for. How happy are those People who they say have the particular Quality, or acquir'd Habit, call'd the _Second Sight_; one Sort of whom they tell us are able to distinguish the _Devil_, in whatever Case or Outside of Flesh and Blood he is pleas'd to put on, and consequently could know the _Devil_ wherever they met him? Were I blest with this excellent and useful Accomplishment, how pleasant would it be, and how would it particularly gratify my Spleen, and all that which I, in common with my fellow Creatures carry about me, call'd Ill-Nature, to stand in the _Mall_, or at the Entrance to any of our _Assemblies of Beauties_, and point them out as they pass by, with this particular Mark, That's a _Devil_; that fine young Toast is a _Devil_; There's a _Devil_ drest in a new Habit for the Ball; There's a _Devil_ in a Coach and Six, _cum aliis_. In short, it would make a merry World among us if we cou'd but enter upon some proper Method of such Discriminations: but, _Lawr'd_, what a Hurricane would it raise, if, like -------, who they say scourg'd the _Devil_ so often that he durst not come near him in any Shape whatever, we cou'd find some new Method out to make the _Devil_ unmask, like the Angel _Uriel_, who, Mr. _Milton_ says, had an enchanted Spear, with which if he did but touch the _Devil_, in whatever Disguise he had put on, it oblig'd him immediately to start up, and shew himself in his true original Shape, mere _Devil_ as he was.