I will add one _Advice_ to conclude this head, which is that you will let every seven years make some alteration in you towards the Graver side, and not be like the _Girls_ of Fifty, who resolve to be always Young, whatever Time with his Iron Teeth hath determined to the contrary. Unnatural things carry a Deformity in them never to be Disguised; the Liveliness of youth in a riper Age, looketh like a new patch upon an old Gown; so that a Gay Matron, a cheerful old Fool, may be reasonably put into the List of the Tamer kind of Monsters. There is a certain Creature call'd a Grave Hobby Horse, a kind of a she Numps, that pretendeth to be pulled to a play, and must needs go to Bartholomew Fair, to look after the young Folks, whom she only seemeth to make her care, in reality she taketh them for her excuse. Such an old Butterfly is of all Creatures the most ridiculous, and the soonest found out. This passage is apparently reminiscent of _The Ladies' Calling_ and but emphasizes the early relegation of the lady to the cap and the chimney-corner. There are other similar social dicta but the stress of the advice is on Husbands, House, Family, Children, the Husband bulking so large in the foreground as almost to obscure other interests. "How to live with a husband" is the central topic. The general laws on which particular maxims are founded are thus stated: You must first lay it down for a Foundation in general, That there is _Inequality_ in the _Sexes_, and that for the better Oeconomy of the World, the _Men_, who were to be the Lawgivers, had the larger share of _Reason_ bestow'd upon them; by which means your Sex is the better prepar'd for the _Compliance_ that is necessary for the better performance of those _Duties_ which seem to be most properly assign'd to it. This looks a little uncourtly at the first appearance; but upon Examination it will be found that Nature is so far from being unjust to you, that she is partial on your side. She hath made you such large _Amends_ by other Advantages, for the seeming _Injustice_ of the first Distribution, that the Right of Complaining is come over to our Sex. You have it in your power not only to free yourselves, but to subdue your Masters, and without violence throw both their _Natural_ and _Legal Authority_ at your Feet. We are made of differing _Tempers_, that our Defects may the better be Mutually Supplied: Your _Sex_ wanteth our _Reason_ for your _Conduct_, and our _Strength_ for your _Protection_; _Ours_ wanteth your _Gentleness_ to soften, and to entertain us. The first part of our Life is a good deal subjected to you in the Nursery, where you Reign without Competition, and by that means have the advantage of giving the first _Impressions_. Afterwards you have stronger Influences, which, well manag'd, have more force in your behalf, than all our _Privileges_ and _Jurisdictions_ can pretend to have against you.