To complete the Favour, be pleas'd to oblige me with your Instruction in Writing. Memory is Treacherous, and we often forget those Things that should always be remembered: Besides the Benefit is too important to be confined to a private Person. My Disease is Epidemical, and you will find few Ladies in Court untainted: Pray let the Remedy be publick. I will send it to the Press with your Leave, and present it to our Sex with a Dedication. Then the ladies took leave of Eusebius and drove home. "They were as calm as a spring Morning, and of Enemies became _Eusebius's_ Admirers."[436] In the _Supplement to The Gentleman Instructed_ there is little that is constructive so far as education is concerned. The faults of women are wittily and picturesquely phrased, but no substitute scheme of life is offered. Wherever learning is specifically spoken of it is with derision. [Sidenote: Advice to a Lady (1731)] Lord Lyttleton wrote in 1731, when he was but twenty-two, a poem entitled "Advice to a Lady" in which he reiterated the commonplaces of the day. He counsels an "elegance of mind as well as dress," but strictly limits the exercise of such mentality as the lady may possess: Nor make to dangerous wit a vain pretence, But wisely rest content with modest sense; For wit, like wine, intoxicates the brain, Too strong for feeble woman to sustain: Of those who claim it more than half have none; And half of those who have it are undone. * * * * * Seek to be good but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat: Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. The attitude of the prudent wife towards her husband is also indicated: From kind concern about his weal or woe, Let each domestic duty seem to flow, The _household sceptre_ if he bids you bear, Make it your pride his _servant_ to appear; Endearing thus the common acts of life. The _mistress_ still shall charm him in the wife. Dr. Johnson thought this poem showed a mind attentive to life, that it was vigorously and very elegantly expressed, and that it was marked by much truth and much prudence. But Lady Mary Wortley Montagu summarized Lord Lyttleton's platitude in a contemptuous couplet: Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.