7. Remember that the bloom of your youth, your healthy and ruddy countenances, the rose on your cheeks, and the sparkling vigor of your eyes, will gain you more admirers than real lovers. Here pause for a few moments and consider! for it is the most delicate point for you to steer through and your name and reputation to remain unsullied. How often doth the blooming and most promising youth, by one fatal misstep, stain their characters with ignominy, and blast their reputation forever. It is much easier to avoid temptation, than to resist the deceitful arts of the tempter. The deceitful heart of a fond admirer, out of a vain pretence of love and affection, will work upon every passion that wit can invent or lust suggest, in order to allure your affections, intrude upon your chastity, and win you over to their fond embraces, and carnal appetites. O heed not their flatteries, neither give way to their alluring and licentious persuasions! for when they have ruined you, their flatteries will be turned into contempt, and their pretended love into downright hatred. And in the end, they will even forsake you, without regard or pity. Therefore beware of sycophants! and be not deceived by their enticing words! Even if they reproach you to your face for your rigorous treatment, yet behind your back, they will applaud your constancy. Remember that the taste may be satiated with the sweetest fruit, where there is a full enjoyment; but let a person participate only by anticipation, and the nearer to enjoyment, the more valuable the prize will be. 8. Learn to distinguish between true, genuine love, and mere fancy. He who truly loves or respects you, will not wish to have you violate your honor or chastity, neither will he violently intrude upon the same, although he may endeavour to prove your constancy. Therefore when you have reason to believe that any one sincerely respects you, and if you also wish to continue to be worthy of his esteem; remember that you cannot do any thing more against yourself than to give over your chastity, or go beyond rules of decency. But if you have reason to believe that any one’s pretended love is nothing more than mere fancy, which will generally shew itself by a vehement fondness; vows, promises, &c. learn to treat it with a silent neglect; for his utmost wishes will never promote your real happiness. 9. Be not anxious to be admired by every one, but only be careful that the virtuous have no occasion to speak evil against you; to avoid which you have only to live a virtuous life. Keep a due regard over all your words and actions; not only when you are with those whom you esteem to be virtuous, but even if you should happen to fall in company with those of the baser sort.