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With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention How much we're oblidged by all their attention; |
We sink with the weight of the huge obligation Too long & too broad to admit compensation. |
For us (and I blush while I speak I declare) The charming Enchanters be-torture their hair, |
Till gently it rises and swells like a knoll Thirty inches at least from the dear little poll; |
From the tip-top of which all peer out together The ribband |
the gause, |
& the ostrich's feather; |
Composing a sight for an Arab to swear at Or huge Patagonian a fortnight to stare at. |
Then hoops at right angles that hang from ye knees |
And hoops at the hips in connection with these |
Set the Fellows presumptuous who court an alliance And ev'ry pretender, at awful defiance. |
And I have been told (though I must disbelieve For the tidings as fact, I would never receive) |
That billets of cork have supplied the place Of something the Fair-ones imagine a grace; |
But whether 'tis placed behind or before; The shoulders to swell, or the bosom to shoar |
To raise a false wen or expand a false bump |
Project a false hip |
or protrude a false rump, Was never ascertain'd; and fegs I declare |
To make more enquiry I never will dare. |
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