Art sure she’ll show the virtues of a wife?”—
“Oh, Sir, she’s all that mortal man can love!”—
“Then marry, Bob! and that the fact will prove—
Yet, in a kind of lightness, folk agree.”— }
“Lightness in her! indeed, it cannot be— }
’Tis Innocence alone that makes her manners free.”— }
“Well, my good friend! then Innocence alone
Is to a something like Flirtation prone;
And I advise—but let me not offend— 160
That Prudence should on Innocence attend,