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The Ladies Dress --- a Receipt

Give Chloe a bushel of horsehair and wool

    of haste & pomatum a pound,

Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull,

    And [gauze?] to encompass it round.

of all the bright colours the rainbow displays

   Be those ribbands wch hang on her head;

Be her flounces adapted to make the folks gaze

   And about the whole work be they spread.

Let her flaps fly behind, for a yard at the least;

   Let her curls meet just under her chin;

Let those curls be supported, to keep up the Jest,

   With a hundred, instead of one pin.

Let her gown be tuck'd up to the hip on each side;

   Shoes too high to walk or to jump;

And to deck the sweet creature compleat for a bride

   Let the Cork cutter make her a rump.

Thus finish'd in taste, while on Chloe you gaze,

   You may take the dear charmer for Life;

But never undress her -- for, out of her stays,

  You'l find you have lost half your wife