Co. What then! Are you come back nothing but a Pamphagus?
Pa. No.
Co. What then, pray?
Pa. A ravenous Wolf.
Co. But they make a better Voyage of it, that return laden with Budgets full of Benefices. Why had you rather have a Benefice than a Wife?
Pa. Because I love to live at Ease. I love to live a pleasant Life.
Co. But in my Opinion they live the most pleasant Life that have at Home a pretty Girl, that they may embrace as often as they have a Mind to it.
Pa. And you may add this to it, sometimes when they have no Mind to it. I love a continual Pleasure; he that marries a Wife is happy for a Month, but he that gets a fat Benefice lives merrily all his Life.
Co. But Solitude is so melancholy a Life, that Adam, in Paradise could not have liv'd happily unless God had given him an Eve.
Pa. He'll ne'er need to want an Eve that has gotten a good Benefice.