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But how many Gallants always keep the Love and Favour of their Mistresses? Certainly, by the same means they first obtain'd it, namely, 1. By Pleasing them. 2. By being Obsequious to them. And, 3. By offering no occasion of offence.
'Tis hard to advise in this case, in regard those that are troubled with the Simples, and are not very Judicious, do fall into a thousand Errours; which, although they seem Light, and Tri∣vial perhaps to others, yet do much exasperate
and vex the Women. Those Men are most ob∣noxious to them, who are possess'd with greater Ravings of Love, than others; who as often as they meet their Adored-She, do break out into such Extremities of Grief and Sorrow as that they are always expressing it with the odd solemnities of wringed hands, and shaken Noddles; of wreath-Chops, and Antick Grimaces; who require such strange and difficult Things, that they are render'd Contemptible, and Odious, even by their clinging Importunity.
Others, unjustly Jealous, are so severe against those they suspect, that they will not allow their Ladies so much as to speak, and look or leer upon them: By which Madness and Folly they do not only incense the Women, but make them twitter after those, whom before they minded not: That Fear that Firks, nay Torments a man's Soul, lest his Mistress should twine about the Limbs, or min∣gle with the Embraces of another Man; I say that Fear doth insinuate that his Person is more Vertu∣ous, and more Deserving, than himself is: And the more he doth Detract from another, the less he's Believ'd, by his Mistress, though he speaks Truth; Nay, she conceives a greater Opinion of his worth, and thinks within her self, that the Gen∣tleman's charms are the more Attractive