j6 MEN and WOMEN compared. 
do not conSider what is right, but what will belt fupport your 
fame or vanity. 
Is not this an effedt of our arrogance ? — Alas poor mortals ! 
££ Out of the heart are the iSTues of life.” And are your hearts lefs 
fufceptible of good impreffions ? Heaven deals its bounties with 
an equal hand ; if we have stronger heads, you have better 
hearts. And what Shall we fay of your conftancy, be it in 
love, in friendship, in prudence, in religion ? Here again I 
offer to compound the matter. But do women in general 
fhow fo much virtue in friendship, or humanity, for their own 
fex, as a man for his friend ? You are apt to be envious of beauty 
tho’ in poverty ; and I think cuStom does not exadt quite fo 
much of you as of us. Men are faid to excell women in friend- 
ship, as women do men in love : but indeed your Situations, 
in general, do not admit of exerciSing all the virtues you are 
inclined to. But you will forgive me if I miSlake this matter : 
I know you are, from native tendernefs of mind, more difpofed 
to charity, than men. And allowing for thofe referves which 
cuftom has eStabliShed, the woman of fentiment will Show more 
virtue in her regard for a man, than men of fentiment generally 
fhow for a woman. As to the fooliSh and vicious part of both 
fexes, it is hard to draw any conclusions from their condudh 
And it is true, that were there fewer villains among men, 
t£ So many of your fex would not in vain, 
££ Of broken vows , and perjured man complain .” 
But you muSt not complain of men only ; complain of your- 
Selves alfo : if there was more true honefty, fimplicity, and na- 
tive 
