——‘if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.’
But this is chargeable upon us, who are accustomed to lie to them about their charms, as a matter of course.”
Apple. “Then, too, if beautiful, they can scarce be good. For, ‘honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.’”
Pulito. “How! Is what is fair at surface necessarily foul at heart?
‘Why what a world is this, where what is comely,
Envenoms him that bears it.’”
Apple. “And how wide is their information, scientific, literary, political, moral! Their wits ‘are dry as a remainder biscuit after a voyage.’”
Pulito. “Well, Apple, I should think you had exhausted Shakspeare and yourself for terms of reproach: yet it still remains true, that they are the dearest, sweetest things ‘in rerum naturâ,’ and
‘Should fate command me to the farthest verge