Toy-M. Madam, I sold six Pair to my Lady Strammell, and her Arm’s nine Inches Diameter.

L. Rod. What else have you?

Toy-M. A choice Comb for your Eye-brows, Madam, an acute Pair o’ Pinchers for your Hair, and a most ingenious French Knife to slice the Powder of your Ladyship’s Forehead, with Tongs, Shovels, Grates, and Fenders for your Ladyship’s Tea-Table.

L. Rod. Well, carry the things in, let your Bills be deliver’d to the Steward, and I’ll order some part of your Mony.

All. We humbly thank your Ladyship. [Exeunt.

L. Rod. Now, Cozen, we have dispatch’d these necessary Animals; pray, tell me how the Town relishes my Appearance.

Mrs. Lov. Your Ladyship’s inimitable Graces, and our vast Successes abroad are the Topicks that furnish all Conversation; one Lady cries at the gilt Chariot, another swoons at the prancing Horses; and my old Lady Lack-it, swears you have so handsom a Set of Foot-men, the dreams of nothing else; then your Ladyship’s Furniture is most surprizing, ev’ry thing was so admir’d, and handl’d last Visiting-day, the Ladies left little of it behind ’em.

L. Rod.  Bagatelle!  Ladies steal from one another, not for the Value of the thing, but to make an Alteration in their Closets.—­But what do the Malitious say, am I envy’d, Cozen, I wou’d n’t ha’ the Fatigue of an Estate, unless I cou’d make the World uneasie about it.

Mrs. Lov. Oh!  Spleen, Spleen, Madam, to the last Degree—­my Lady Testy has tore fifty Fans about you, broke all her China, and beat her Foot-man’s Eye out; she says, ’tis a burning Shame, you monopolize all the Fellows in the Town; and truly, there’s a Statute against ingrossing.—­My Lady Prudence Maxim, cries, A fine Estate is a fine Thing, finely manag’d, but to overdo at first, to undo at last.  And Mrs. Indigo, the Merchant’s Wife, says, If you knew the getting on’t, you wou’d n’t spend it so fast.

L. Rod. I have six thousand a Year, and resolve to live single, and enjoy it; I have made the Tour of Italy and France, have given my self the Accomplishment of both Sexes, and design to Visit, Game, Revel, dust the Park, haunt the Theatres, and out-flutter e’er a Fop i’the Nation; and I know not why a Lady that has the best Estate i’the County shou’d n’t represent ’em in Parliament.

Mrs. Lov. But launching out too far, Madam, may draw Reflections on your Conduct, the English Ladies are more reserv’d than Foreigners.