See, if I hit not all their Practic observance, with which they lime twigs to catch their fantastic lady-birds.
"Cynthia's Revels"
Ben Jonson
There is no doubt that Mrs. Behn was fully alive to the strength of the passion she describes, but as Sir Richard Steele said, she "understood the Practic part of love better than the speculative."
"A History of English Prose Fiction"
Bayard Tuckerman