Hand the very next Sunday. The Great are deceived, if they imagine they have appropriated Ambition and Vanity to themſelves. Theſe noble Qualities flouriſh as notably in a Country Church, and Church-yard, as in the Drawing-Room, or in the Cloſet. Schemes have indeed been laid in the Veſtry, which would hardly diſgrace the Conclave. Here is a Miniſtry, and here is an Oppoſition. Here are Plots and Circumventions, Parties and Factions, equal to thoſe which are to be found in Courts.
Nor are the Women leſs practiſed in the higheſt Feminine Arts than their fair Superiors in Quality and Fortune. Here are Prudes and Coquettes. Here are Dreſſing and Ogling, Falſhood, Envy, Malice, Scandal; in ſhort, every Thing which is common to the moſt ſplendid Aſſembly, or politeſt Circle. Let thoſe of high Life, therefore, no longer deſpiſe the Ignorance of their Inferiors; nor the Vulgar andy longer rail at the Vices of their Betters.
Molly had ſeated herſelf ſome time before ſhe was known by her Neighbours; and a Whiſper ran through the whole Congregation, ‘who is ſhe?’ But when ſhe was diſcovered, ſuch ſneering, gigling, tittering, and laughing,enſued
