1 La. Please to want! People seldom please to want any thing, Sir.
Mast. O dear Madam, yes; I always imagine when People come into a Toy-shop, it must be for something they please to want.
2 La. Here's a mighty pretty Looking Glass; Pray, Sir, what's the Price of it?
Mast. This Looking Glass, Madam, is the finest in all England. In this Glass a Coquet may see her Vanity, and a Prude her Hypocrisy. Some fine Ladies may see more Beauty than Modesty, more Airs than Graces, and more Wit than Good-nature.
1 La. [Aside.] He begins already.
Mast. If a Beau was to buy this Glass, and look earnestly in it, he might see his Folly almost as soon as his Finery. 'Tis true, some People may not see their Generosity in it, nor others their Charity, yet it is a very clear Glass. Some fine Gentlemen may not see their Good-manners in it perhaps, nor some Parsons their Religion, yet it is a very clear Glass. In short, tho' every one that passes for a Maid should not happen to see a Maidenhead in it, yet it may be a very clear Glass, you know, for all that.
2 La. Yes, Sir, but I did not ask you the Virtues of it, I ask'd you the Price.
Mast. It was necessary to tell you the Virtues, Madam, in order to prevent your scrupling the Price, which is five Guineas, and for so extraordinary a Glass, in my Opinion, it is but a Trifle.
2 La. Lord, I'm afraid to look in it, methinks, lest it should show me more of my Faults than I care to see.
1 La. Pray, Sir, what can be the Use of this very diminutive piece of Goods here?