“Speak, prince,” answered Mirzoza ironically, “I will hear you with all my ears. Moral essays of a Sultan of your age must be something curious.”

“The system of Orcotomus is extravagant, with the leave of his fellow academician Hiragu: yet I find some sense in the answers which he gave to the objections started against it. If I allowed a soul to women, I would willingly suppose with him, that Toys have spoken from the beginning, but softly: and that the effect of the Genius Cucufa’s ring is reduced to raising their voice. Upon this foundation nothing can be more easy than to define the whole sex.

“The sober woman, for example, would be she whose Toy is silent, or is not attended to.

“The prude, she who pretends not to listen to her Toy.

“The intriguing woman, she whose Toy desires a great deal, and who allows it too much.

“The voluptuous, she who gives ear to her Toy with complaisance.