I shall conclude these Iambicks with the Motto of this Paper, which is a Fragment of the same Author:
A Man cannot possess any Thing that is better than a good Woman, nor any thing that is worse than a bad one
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As the Poet has shewn a great Penetration in this Diversity of Female Characters, he has avoided the Fault which
Juvenal
and Monsieur
Boileau
are guilty of, the former in his sixth, and the other in his last Satyr, where they have endeavoured to expose the Sex in general, without doing Justice to the valuable Part of it. Such levelling Satyrs are of no Use to the World, and for this Reason I have often wondered how the
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