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Show 6 The Inconfiant : Or, Women have Wit, Parrots; meer Parrots, AfTurance and a good Memory, fets them up ; -•- there's nothing on this fide the Alps worth m y humble Service t'ye. Ha Roma la Santa, Italy for m y Money ; their Cuftoms, Gardens, Buildings, Paintings, Mufick, Policies, Wine and W o m e n I the Para-dife of the World; not pefter'd with a parcel of precife old gouty Fellows, that would debar their Children every Pleafure that they themfelves are paft the fenfe of; commend me to the Italian familiarity. Here, Son, there's Fifty Crowns, go pay your Whore her Week's Allowance. Dur. Ay, thefe are your Fathers for you, that underftand the Neceffities of Young Men ; not like our mufly Dads, who becaufe they cannot fifh themfelves, would muddy the W a ter, and fpoil the fport of them that can. But now you talk of the Plump, what de think of a Dutch W o m a n ? Mir. A Dutch W o m a n , too compact, nay, every thing among 'em is fo; a Dutch M a n is thick, a Dutch W o m a n is fquab, a Dutch Horfe is round, a Dutch Dog is fhort, a Dutch Ship is broad-bottom'd; and , in lhort, one wou'd fwear the whole Products of the Country were caft in the fame Mold with their Cheefes. Dur. Ay, but Mirabel, you have forgot the Englifh Ladies. Aiir. The W o m e n of England were excellent, did they not take fuch unfufferable pains to mine what Nature has made fo incomparably well; they wou'd be delicate Creatures indeed, cou'd they but throughly arrive at the French Mien, or entirely let alone, for they only fpoil a very good Air of their own, by an a wkard imitation of ours ; their Parliaments and our Taylors give Laws to their three Kingdoms. But come, Duretete, let us mind the bufinefs in hand, MiftrefTes we muft have, and muft take up with the Manufacture of the place, and upon a competent diligence w e fhall find thofe in Paris fhall match the Italians from top to toe. Dur. Ay, Mirabel, you will do well enough, but what will become of your Friend ; you know 1 a m fo plaguy bafhful, fo naturally an Afs upon thele occafions, that Mir. Pfhaw, you muft be bolder, M a n : Travel three Years, and bring home fuch a Baby as Bafhfulnfs! A great lufty Fellow ! and a Soldier! fye upon'r. Dur. Look'e, Sir, I can vifit, and I can ogle a little, as thus, or thus now. Then I can kifs abundantly, and make a fhift to but if they chance to give m e a forbidding Look, as fome W o m e n , you know, have a devilifh Caft with their Eyes, or if they cry, what d'emean? what d'e take m e for ? Fye, Sir, remember who I am, Sir. A Per-^ |