wearer, but can never distinguish the gentlewoman. [

    Gives off the delicate lady.

   ] This is a representation of those misled ladies whose families having gained great fortunes by trade, begin to be ashamed of the industry of their ancestors,

   and turn up their nose at every thing mechanical, and call it

    wulgar

   . They are continually thrusting themselves among the nobility, to have it said they keep quality company, and for that empty qualification expose themselves to all the tortures of ill treatment; because it is a frolic for persons of rank to mortify such their imitators. This is vanity without honour, and dignity at second-hand, and shews that ladies may so far entangle the line of beauty, by not having it properly unwound for them, till they are lost in a labyrinth of fashionable intricacies. [

    Gives the head off. Takes the head of Cleopatra.

   ]

   Here is a real antique; this is the head of that famous demirep of antiquity, called Cleopatra,

   This is the way the ladies of antiquity used to dress their heads in a morning. [

    Gives the head off.

   ] And this is the way the ladies at present dress their heads in a morning. [

    Takes the head.

   ] A lady in this dress seems hooded like a hawk, with a blister on each cheek for the tooth-ach. One would imagine this fashion had been invented by some surly duenna, or ill-natured guardian, on purpose to prevent ladies turning to one side or the other; and that may be the reason why now every young lady chooses to look forward. As the world is round, every thing turns round along with it; no wonder there should be such revolutions in ladies' head-dresses. This was in fashion two or three years past; this is the fashion of last year [

    takes a head up

   ]; and this the morning headdress [

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