Eu. I have no Dislike to the Nunneries themselves, though the same Thing can never agree with all Persons:  But considering your Genius, as far as I can gather from your Complexion and Manners, I should rather advise you to an agreeable Husband, and set up a College in your own House, of which he should be the Abbot and you the Abbess.

Ca. I will rather die than quit my Resolution of Virginity.

Eu. Nay, it is indeed an admirable Thing to be a pure Virgin, but you may keep yourself so without running yourself into a Cloyster, from which you never can come out.  You may keep your Maidenhead at Home with your Parents.

Ca. Yes, I may, but it is not so safe there.

Eu. Much safer truly in my Judgment there, than with those brawny, swill-belly’d Monks.  They are no Capons, I’ll assure you, whatever you may think of them.  They are call’d Fathers, and they commonly make good their Calling to the very Letter.  Time was when Maids liv’d no where honester than at home with their Parents, when the only spiritual Father they had was the Bishop.  But, prithee, tell me, what Cloyster hast thou made Choice of among ’em all, to be a Slave in?

Ca. The Chrysertian.

Eu. Oh!  I know it, it is a little Way from your Father’s House.

Ca. You’re right.

Eu. I am very well acquainted with the whole Gang.  A sweet Fellowship to renounce Father and Mother, Friends, and a worthy Family for!  For the Patriarch himself, what with Age, Wine, and a certain natural Drowsiness, has been mop’d this many a Day, he can’t now relish any Thing but Wine; and he has two Companions, John and Jodocus, that match him to a Hair.  And as for John, indeed I can’t say he is an ill Man, for he has nothing at all of a Man about him but his Beard, not a Grain of Learning in him, and not much more common Prudence.  And Jodocus he’s so arrant a Sot, that if he were not ty’d up to the Habit of his Order, he would walk the Streets in a Fool’s Cap with Ears and Bells at it.

Ca. Truly they seem to me to be very good Men.

Eu. But, my Kitty, I know ’em better than you do.  They will do good Offices perhaps between you and your Parents, that they may gain a Proselyte.

Ca.  Jodocus is very civil to me.

Eu. A great Favour indeed.  But suppose ’em good and learned Men to Day, you’ll find ’em the contrary perhaps to Morrow; and let them be what they will then, you must bear with them.

Ca. I am troubled to see so many Entertainments at my Father’s House, and marry’d Folks are so given to talk smutty; I’m put to’t sometimes when Men come to kiss me, and you know one can’t well deny a Kiss.

Eu. He that would avoid every Thing that offends him, must go out of the World; we must accustom our Ears to hear every Thing, but let nothing enter the Mind but what is good.  I suppose your Parents allow you a Chamber to yourself.