Wild. But what course will you take to purchase this trade with women?
Care. I am resolved to put on their own silence and modesty, answer forsooth, swear nothing but God's nigs, and hold arguments of their own cold tenets, as if I believed there were no true love below the line, then sigh when 'tis proper, and with forced studies betray the enemy who, seeing my eye fixed on her, her vanity thinks I am lost in admiration, calls and shakes me, ere I wake out of my design, and being collected, answer out of purpose, Love, divinest? yes, who is it that is mortal and does not? or which amongst all the senate of the gods can gaze upon those eyes, and carry thence the power he brought? This will start her.
Wild. Yes, and make her think thee mad.
Care. Why, that's my design; for then I start too, and rub my eyes as if I waked: then sigh and strangle a yawn, till I have wrung it into tears, with which I rise as if o'ercome with grief; then kiss her hands, and let fall those witnesses of faith and love, bribed for my design. This takes; for who would suspect such a devil as craft and youth to live together?
Wild. But what kind of women do you think this will take?
Care. All kind of women. Those that think themselves handsome, it being probable, conclude it real; and those that are handsome in their opinion, that small number will believe it, because it agrees with their wishes.
Wild. And when you are gone, it may be they sigh, and their love breaks out into paper, and what then?
Care. What then? why then I'll laugh, and show thee their letters, and teach the world how easy 'tis to win any woman.
Wild. This is the way: and be sure to dislike all but her you design for: be scarce civil to any of the sex besides.
Care. That's my meaning; but to her that I mean my prey, all her slave: she shall be my deity, and her opinion my religion.