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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: assemblies will be indecent for some time.
As for you, coquettes, bawds, and chamber-maids, (the future
ministers, plenipotentiaries, and cabinet-counsellors to the
princes of the earth,) manage the great intrigues that will be
committed to your charge, with your usual secrecy and conduct;
and the affairs of your masters will go better than ever.
O ye exchange women! (our right worshipful representatives that
are to be) be not so griping in the sale of your ware as your
predecessors, but consider that the nation, like a spend-thrift
heir, has run out: Be likewise a little more continent in your
tongues than you are at present, else the length of debates will
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