Of all the animals of prey, man is the only sociable one.
[277]: Dans ces Églogues les dames expliquent en bon style que leurs amies ont pour amants des laquais:
Her favours Sylvia shares amongst mankind;
Such gen'rous Love could never be confin'd.
Ailleurs la servante dit à la dame:
Have you not fancy'd in his frequent kiss
Th'ungrateful leavings of a filthy miss?
[278]: I have eleven fine customers now down, under the surgeon's hand....
Since the favourite child-getter was disabled by mishap, I have picked up a little money, by helping the ladies to a pregnancy against their being called down to sentence....
LUCY.
See how I am forced to bear about the load of infamy you have laid upon me...