_Flavia_ would be a _miracle_ of piety, if she was but half so careful of her soul as she is of her body. The rising of a _pimple_ in her face, the sting of a _gnat_, will make her keep her room two or three days; and she thinks they are very _rash_ people, that don’t take care of things in time. This makes her so over-careful of her _health_, that she never thinks she is well enough; and so _over-indulgent_, that she can never be really well. So that it costs her a great deal in _sleeping-draughts_ and _waking-draughts_, in _spirits_ for the head, in _drops_ for the nerves, in _cordials_ for the stomach, and in _saffron_ for her _tea_. 8. If you visit _Flavia_ on the _Sunday_ you will always meet _good company_: you will know what is doing in the world; you will hear the last _lampoon_, be told who wrote it, and who is meant by every name that is in it. You will hear what _plays_ were acted that week, which is the finest song in the _opera_, who was intolerable at the last assembly, and what games are most in fashion. _Flavia_ thinks they are _Atheists_ that play at _cards_ on the _Sunday_; but she will tell you the _nicety_ of all the games, what cards she held, how she _played_ them, and the _history_ of all that happened at _play_, as soon as she comes from _church_. If you would know who is _rude_ and _ill-natured_, who is _vain_ and _foppish_, who lives too _high_, and who is in _debt_; if you would know what is the quarrel at a _certain house_, or who and who are in _love_; if you would know how late _Belinda_ comes home at night, what _cloaths_ she has bought, how she loves _compliments_, and what a long story she told at such a place; if you would know how cross _Lucius_ is to his _wife_, what ill-natured things he says to her when _nobody_ hears him; if you would know how they hate one another in their _hearts_, though they appear so kind in public, you must visit _Flavia_ on the _Sunday_. But still she has so great a regard for the holiness of the day, that she has turned a poor old widow out of her house, as a _prophane wretch_, for having been found once _mending her cloaths_ on the _Sunday_ night.