A Set Of Phrases Learn'D By Rote; A Passion For A Scarlet Coat; When At A Play, To Laugh Or Cry, Yet Cannot Tell The Reason Why; Never To Hold Her Tongue A Minute, While All She Prates Has Nothing In It; Whole Hours Can With A Coxcomb Sit, And Take His Nonsense All For Wit; Her Learning Mounts To Read A Song, But Half The Words Pronouncing Wrong; Has Every Repartee In Store She Spoke Ten Thousand Times Before; Can Ready Compliments Supply On All Occasions Cut And Dry; Such Hatred To A Parson'S Gown, The Sight Would Put Her In A Swoon; For Conversation Well Endued, She Calls It Witty To Be Rude; And, Placing Raillery In Railing, Will Tell Aloud Your Greatest Failing; Nor Make A Scruple To Expose Your Bandy Leg, Or Crooked Nose; Can At Her Morning Tea Run O'Er The Scandal Of The Day Before; Improving Hourly In Her Skill, To Cheat And Wrangle At Quadrille. In Choosing Lace, A Critic Nice, Knows To A Groat The Lowest Price; Can In Her Female Clubs Dispute, What Linen Best The Silk Will Suit, What Colours Each Complexion Match, And Where With Art To Place A Patch. If Chance A Mouse Creeps In Her Sight, Can Finely Counterfeit A Fright; So Sweetly Screams, If It Comes Near Her, She Ravishes All Hearts To Hear Her. Can Dext'Rously Her Husband Teaze, By Taking Fits WheNe'er She Please; By Frequent Practice Learns The Trick At Proper Seasons To Be Sick; Thinks Nothing Gives One Airs So Pretty, At Once Creating Love And Pity; If Molly Happens To Be Careless, And But Neglects To Warm Her Hair-Lace, She Gets A Cold As Sure As Death, And Vows She Scarce Can Fetch Her Breath; Admires How Modest Women Can Be So Robustious Like A Man. In Party, Furious To Her Power; A Bitter Whig, Or Tory Sour; Her Arguments Directly Tend Against The Side She Would Defend; Will Prove Herself A Tory Plain, From Principles The Whigs Maintain; And, To Defend The Whiggish Cause, Her Topics From The Tories Draws. O Yes! If Any Man Can Find More Virtues In A Woman'S Mind, Let Them Be Sent To Mrs. Harding;[1] She'll Pay The Charges To A Farthing; Take Notice, She Has My Commission To Add Them In The Next Edition; They May Outsell A Better Thing: So, Holla, Boys; God Save The King!
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