Do not rise yet; you may find thoughts agreeable enough, when you awake, to entertain you longer in bed. And *tis in that hour you ought to recollect all the dreams you had in the night. (207)The writer imagines her lover Damon to be easily swayed by a beautiful woman and pictures his slide into possible unfaithfulness by rendering Damon's perceptions:It is true, in seating yourself at table, I would not have you placed over against a very beautiful object, for in such a one there are a thousand little graces in speaking, looking, and laughing, that fail not to charm, if one gives way to the eyes, to gaze and wander that way; in which, perhaps, in spite of you, you will find a pleasure. And while you do so, though without design or concern, you give the fair charmer a sort of vanity in believing you have placed yourself there, only for the advantage of looking on her; and she assumes a hundred little graces and affectations which are not natural to her, to complete a conquest, which she believes so well begun already. She softens her eyes, and sweetens her mouth; and in fine, puts on another air than when she had no design, and when you did not, by your continual looking on her, rouse her vanity, and increase her easy opinion of her own charms. Perhaps she knows I have some interest in your heart, and prides herself, at least, with believing she has attracted the eyes of my lover, if not his heart; and thinks it easy to vanquish the whole, if she pleases, and triumphs over me in her secret imaginations. (223)18