the most lovely figure in the universe; and on the reverse of this medallion is the same lady when she chooses

    not

   to be in temper, and

    not

   to be herself. [

    Turns the picture.

   ] This face is put on when she is disappointed of her masquerade habit, when she has lost a

    sans prendre

   , when her lap-dog's foot is trod

   upon, or when her husband has dared to contradict her. Some married ladies may have great cause of complaint against their husbands' irregularities; but is this a face to make those husbands better? Surely no! It is only by such looks as these [

    turns the picture

   ] they are to be won: and may the ladies hereafter only wear such looks, and may this never more be known [

    turns the picture

   ] only as a picture taken out of Æsop's Fables. [

    Gives off the picture.

   ]

   May each married lady preserve her good man, And young ones get good ones as fast as they can.

   It is very remarkable there should be such a plentiful harvest of courtship before marriage, and generally such a famine afterwards. Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweet-hearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time: but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold aguish fit, to which the faculty have given this name—[

    Shews the girdle of 

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