I have hitherto given you an Account of our Diversion on ordinary Club-Nights; but must acquaint you farther, that once a Month we demolish a Prude, that is, we get some queer formal Creature in among us, and unrig her in an Instant.

Quit playing the prude, and stay here!

"Mais elle était un peu prude, Et n'avait pas l'habitude De coqueter, comme les autres demoiselles; Jusqu'à ce que le Lord Mayor (Homme brutal, comme tous les pères) L'éloigna de sa tourterelle.

But hang all prudes, say I,' he withdrew reluctantly, and slowly closed the door on her.

I thought her cousin watched her with a jealous eye; for she is, you must know, a prude; and immaculatemore so than you or Imust be the man who claims admission to her society.

'The first thing I had to do, was to compliment the prude into shyness by complaints of shyness: next, to take advantage of the marquise's situation, between her husband's jealousy and his sister's arrogance; and to inspire her with resentment; and, as I hoped, with a regard to my person.

When her majesty hunted in the park she was met by Diana, who, pronouncing our royal prude to be the brightest paragon of unspotted chastity, invited her to groves free from the intrusions of Acteon."

I put her upon concealing the prude, as if unknown to me, in a closet in one of her own apartments, locking her in, and putting the key in her own pocket: and she was to question me on the sincerity of my professions to her sister, in her sister's hearing.