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LVI.
MADAM,
IN your last Letter you writ how much the Lord N. O. doth Admire Mrs. B. U. and what Addresses he makes to her, for he being in Years hath seen much of the World, and many and Different Beauties, and hath Convers'd with many and Different Wits, and hath found and observed many and Diffe∣rent Humours, and hath made many and Dif∣ferent Courtships to many and Different Wo∣men: yet I have observ'd that men in Years would seem Lovers and Admirers, but are not; and Young men are Lovers and Admirers, and would not seem so; Men in Years Praise all the Young Women they meet withall, but think not of them when they are out of their Companies, but Young men Praise some Par∣ticulars, and when Absent, are more Fond and Deeper in Love than when they are personally Present; and it is to be observed, that the chiefest Imployment of the most part of Men is to make Love, not that they are Really in Love, but Feign∣edly make themselves so, and Amorous Court∣ships are the most general Actions in the World, and the most general Imployments of the Thoughts in mens Minds; and the same is also a∣mongst Women; so that most of mankind are