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SHe is a tatling Gossip, and one of the De∣vils Day-Labourers, that sowes his Tares for him, or seed of dissention. She tells you this and this such an one said of you, when you may be sure, 'tis either wholly false or never
wholly true, (she having either wholly invent∣ed it, or added so much to it, as makes it an a••∣rant Lye.) She goes a fishing for secrets, and tells you those of others, onely to hook yours out of you, baiting men as they do fishes, one with another still. She chuses the softest Breasts, as easiest to be corrupted, and those (like an insinuating worm) she wriggles her self into, till she has quite corrupted them; the oyl with which she supples them, is Flattery; and that which she chiefly flatters, is others Vices; for Vertues, she shud be sorry that they had any, lest they shud be too vertuous for her compa∣ny. In fine, they talk of Serpents so venomous, as they infect and poyson with their very breaths; but if ever any's breaths were veno∣mous, 'tis hers, (who wod set Man and Wife at dissention the first day of their Marriage, and Childe and Parents the last day of their lives) Nor will innocence ever be safe, or conversa∣tion innocent, till such as she be banisht humane society, (the bane of all Societies where they come) and if I could afford them being any where, it shud be onely with Ariosto's Discord amongst mine Enemies; mean time 't shall be my prayer, God bless my friends from them.