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But such it is: and though we may be taught / / To have in childhood life, ere love we know, / / Yet life is useless till by reason taught, / / And love and reason up together grow. / / SIR W. DAVENANT.
"And, indeed, my grave Lady Constance plays with the poor fish in a very / sportsmanlike manner; only, methinks, a little too shy, and a trifle too / sensitive! Marry, girl! what a most yielding, docile, and affectionate / wife you would make! -- like one of the heroines in the ancient Spanish / romances; or such a one as -- Judith! -- no -- for you would never venture to / chop off a man's head -- Stay -- did she so? -- or -- Barbara! you are well read / in Scripture history; and, though you ply your needle so industriously, / that will not prevent your calling to mind some of the holy women in the / Bible, to whom your mistress may be compared."