omparison between Lady _Rodomont_ and your
Ladyship, than between a dazling Dutchess and a _Wapping_ Head-dresser: If
the surprizing Sight, and continual Idea of your Ladyship had not
discompos'd my Thoughts and confounded my Politicks, the Confederates had
never taken _Lisle_.

L. _Toss._ Indeed, Major, I'm very sorry for it truly [_aside_]. D'you
hear, _Flimsy_, you will have me lay it on so thick; but I hope 'twill be
retaken agen.

_Bram._ Is your Ladyship disaffected, then, to the Government?

L. _Toss._ The most of any body, for I have been three times at Court, and
they have brought me no Chocolate.

_Bram._ 'Twas a prodigious Affront; and if you'll believe me, Madam, I'm
disaffected to ev'ry kind o'thing but your Ladyship.

L. _Toss._ What if we adjourn into the Drawing-Room Major? We'll sit upon
the Squabb, drink Whistlejacket, and abuse all Mankind.

_Bram._ Nature, Madam, has sufficiently expos'd all Mankind, in forming
your Ladyship so far beyond 'em. [_Exeunt._

SCENE _Changes to Lady_ Rodomonts.

_Enter Lady_ Rodomont, _and the_ Collonel.

L. _Rod._ _Collonel_, I sent for you to wish you Joy, I hear you're to be
marry'd.

_Coll._ [_aside._] It works I find; Sir _Harry_'s Thought was admirable--
Yes, Madam, your Ladyship made such fine Encomiums on Matrimony, with so
much Rhetorick, and force of Reason, that you have persuaded me into that
comfortable State.

La. _Rod._ I persuade you, did I use any Arguments to persuade you to't.
[_Aside._] How he tortures me; but I'll be calm--Have I seen the Lady,
_Collonel_; did she ever appear in Company; pray how is she built.

_Col._ Built as other Women are, Madam; she has her Gun-Room, her
Steerage, her Fore-Castle, her Quarter-Deck, her Great-Cabbin, and her
Poop; as for her good Qualities, few Women care to hear each other
prais'd; but I'll tell you what Imperfections she has not: She is no proud
conceited haughty Dame, that tow'rs over Mankind with an Estate; no
vain Coquet, that loves a Croud of Followers, invites and smiles, that
drills 'em to admire her; then basely, like a false dissembling
_Crocodile_, prevaricates, and jilts their well-meant Passion.

La. _Rod._ Hum!

_Col._ She's rich and beautiful, yet humble too, thinks herself not the
_Phoenix_ o' the Age, nor seems surpriz'd, or mortify'd, to find Ladies a
multitude that far excel her.

La. _Rod._ Very well.

_Col._ In short, She has Sense to know a Gentleman that of