Here take them off.

   ] Some people we see staring at every thing, and wondering with a foolish face of praise, [

    make a face here

   ]; some laughing, some crying. Now crying and laughing are contrary effects, the least alteration of features occasions the difference; it is turning

    up

   the muscles to laugh [

    do so here

   ], and

    down

   to cry.

   Yet laughter is much mistook, no person being capable of laughing, who is incapable of thinking. For some people suddenly break out into violent spasms, ha, ha, ha! and then without any gradation, change at once into downright stupidity; as for example-[

    Here shews the example.

   ]

   In speaking about faces, we shall now exhibit a bold face. [

    Shews the head.

   ]

   This is Sir Whisky Whiffle. He is one of those mincing, tittering, tip-toe, tripping animalculæ of the times, that flutter about fine women like flies in a flower garden; as harmless, and as constant as their shadows, they dangle by the side of beauty like part of their watch equipage, as glittering, as light, and as useless; and the ladies suffer

   such things about them, as they wear soufflée gauze, not as things of value, but merely to make a shew with: they never say any thing to the purpose; but with this in their hands [

    takes up 

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