, and the World

Opportunities

. Did they but know how many Thousands of their Sex have been gradually betrayed from innocent Freedoms to Ruin and Infamy; and how many Millions of ours have begun with Flatteries, Protestations and Endearments, but ended with Reproaches, Perjury, and Perfidiousness; they would shun like Death the very first Approaches of one that might lead them into inextricable Labyrinths of Guilt and Misery.

[I]

must so far give up the Cause of the Male World, as to exhort the Female Sex in the Language of

Chamont

in the

Orphan

[2]

;