can you, lovely Nancy!'" &c. [

    Laughs aloud.

   ] How droll to hear the dotards aping youth, And talk of love's delights without a tooth! [

    Gives the head off.

   ]

   It is something odd that ladies shall have their charms all abroad in this manner [

    takes the head

   ], and the very next moment this shall come souse over their

    heads

   , like an extinguisher. [

    Pulls the calash over.

   ] This is a hood in high taste at the upper end of the town; and this [

    takes the head

   ] a hood in high taste at the lower end of the town. Not more different are these two heads in their dresses than they are in their manner of conversation: this makes use of a delicate dialect, it being thought polite pronunciation to say instead of cannot,

    ca'ant

   ; must not

    ma'ant

   ; shall not,

    sha'ant

   , This clipping of letters would be extremely detrimental to the current coin of conversation, did not these good dames make ample amends by adding supernumerary syllables when they talk of

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