Chap.

 1    2|    only to render ourselves gentle, domestic brutes! For instance,
 2    2| most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.~ ~ Nature,
 3    2|   being should labour to be gentle. But when forbearance confounds
 4    2|   could really make a being gentle, whose natural disposition
 5    4|  may be one reason why some gentle wives have so few attractions
 6    5|      who find some of these gentle irritable creatures, very
 7    5| your hearts* to despoil the gentle, trusting creatures of their
 8    5|     below women? Or, that a gentle innocent female is an object
 9    5|    of yielding softness and gentle compliance.~ ~ I will use
10    5|  and demeanour delicate and gentle.'~ ~ Is not the following
11    9|        But fair and softly, gentle reader, male or female,