For, I know nothing more hateful (said she in defence of her opi∣nion) than such people as neither love nor hate, who determine themselves to nothing, and have so lukewarm a soul, that they are not very strongly on their own side. Ask them if they will walk; they know not: inquire of them, whether they would have people love them; they are dubious of it: do them any service; they take no notice of it: offer to dis∣please them; they scarce perceive it: so much are they afraid to disquiet their happy indifference. But as for inconstant persons (added she) they have always something to do; they go, they come, they are imployed; and though they desire nothing vehemently, and disclaim obstinacy, yet they are always determin'd to something. They fill some place, and signifie something in the World, and at least make themselves to be spoken of, be it well or ill.
'Tis true (answer'd Lysimena) but if you observe, the indifferent and the inconstant are not too opposite. For an inconstant person loves indifferently all the Beauties of a City; 'tis only because he has some kind of indifference in his heart, that he loves several persons. And, for my part, methinks, I should love an indifferent person who is determin'd to nothing, better than an inconstant who determines himself to inconstancy, who makes a glory of his weakness, who believes he cannot be a gallant without being a profess'd shittle-brain, and who loving nothing ardently, yet passes all his life as if he lov'd. For the name of Love is not to be given to those transient affections which succeed one after another, which perplex hearts without possessing them; and which almost produce nothing but Sonnets.
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