_Mast._ It is indeed. And that you may not want Encouragement to proceed in so useful a Study, I will let you have the Scales for Ten Shillings. If you make a right Use of them, they will be worth more to you than Ten Thousand Pounds. _4 Gent._ I confess I am struck with the Beauty and Usefulness of this Kind of moral Staticks, and believe I shall apply myself to make Experiments with great Delight. There's your Money, Sir: You shall hear shortly what Discoveries I make; in the mean Time, I am your humble Servant. [_Exit._ _Mast._ Sir, I am yours. _Enter a second_ Old Man. _2 Old Man._ Sir, I understand you deal in Curiosities. Have you any Thing in your Shop, at present, that's pretty and curious? _Mast._ Yes, Sir, I have a great many Things. But the most ancient Curiosity I have got, is a small Brass Plate, on which is engrav'd the Speech which _Adam_ made to his Wife, on their first Meeting, together with her Answer. The Characters, thro' Age, are grown unintelligible; but for that 'tis the more to be valued. What is remarkable in this ancient Piece is, that _Eve_'s Speech is about three Times as long as her Husband's. I have a Ram's Horn, one of those which help'd to blow down the Walls of _Jericho._ A Lock of _Sampson_'s Hair, tied up in a Shred of _Joseph_'s Garment. With several other _Jewish_ Antiquities, which I purchas'd of that People at a very great Price. Then I have the Tune which _Orpheus_ play'd to the Devil, when he charm'd back his Wife. _Gent._ That was thought to be a silly Tune, I believe, for no Body has over car'd to learn it since. _Mast._ Close cork'd up in a Thumb Phial, I have some Drops of Tears which _Alexander_ wept, because he could do no more Mischief. I have a Snuff-box made out of the Tub in which _Diogenes_ liv'd, and took Snuff at all the World. I have the Net in which _Vulcan_ caught his Spouse and her Gallant; but our modern Wives are now grown so exceeding chaste, that there has not been an Opportunity of casting it these many Years. _Gent._ [_Aside to the Ladies._] Some would be so malicious now as instead of chaste to think he meant cunning. _Mast._ I have the Pitch Pipe of _Gracchus_, the _Roman_ Orator, who, being apt, in Dispute, to raise his Voice too high, by touching a certain soft Note in this Pipe, would regulate and keep it in a moderate Key. _2 La._ Such a Pipe as that, if it could be heard, would be very useful in Coffee-houses, and other publick Places of Debate and modern Disputation. _Gent._ Yes, Madam, and, I believe, many a poor Husband would be glad of such a Regulator of the Voice in his own private Family too.