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24 A PANEGYRICK of Wifdom that makes Men fo tawny and thick-skinn'4, fo rough and prickly-bearded, like an Emblem of Winter, or Old Age, while Women have ſuch dainty ſmooth Cheeks, ſuch a low gentle Voice, and fo pure a Complexion, as if Nature had drawn them for a fanding Pattern of all Symetry and Comelinefs; Befide, what greater or jufter Aim and Ambition have they than to pleafe their Husbands ? In order whereunto they garnifh themfelves with Paint, Wafhes, Curls, Perfumes, and ali other Myfteries of Ornament 5 yet after all they became acceptable to them only for their Folly. Wives are always allow’d their Humour, yet it is only in Exchange for Titillation and Pleafure, which indeed are but other Names for Folly; as none can deny, who confiders how a Manrnuft hug, and dandle, and kittle, and play a Hundred little Tricks with his Bedfellow, [F1c. IX.] when he is difpofed to make that We of her that Nature defgn'd her for. Well then, you ſee whence that greateſt Pleafure (to which Modeſty ſcarce allows a Name) fprings and proceeds. Bur now fome bloed-chili’d Old Men, that are more for Wine than Wenching, will pretend that in their Opinion the greateſt Happineſs conſiſts in Feaſting and Drinking. Grant it be fo; yet certainly in the moft luxurious Entertainments it is Folly muft give the Sauce and Relifh to the daintieft Cates and Delicacies; fo that if there be no one of the Gueſts naturally Fool enough to “be play’d upon by the reft, they muft procure fome comical
