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THE ENGLISH LADY’s

A. At ſixteen I began to think of a man; at ſeventeen I loved a man; at eighteen I ſigh'd for a man; at nineteen I ſent for a man; and at twenty I ran away with a man.

Q. How do you employ your time now?

A. I ly in bed till noon, dreſs all the afternoon, dine in the evening, and play at cards till midnight.

Q. How do you ſpend the Sabbath?

A. In chit-chat.

Q What do you talk of?

A. New faſhions and new plays.

Q. How often do you go to church?

A. Twice a year, or oftener, as my huſband gives me new clothes.

Q Why do you go to church when you have new clothes?

A. To be admired by the men, to ſee other folks finery, and to ſhow my own; and to laugh at thoſe ſcurvy out of faſhion creatures who come there for devotion.

Q. Pray, Madam, what books do you read?

A. I read Plays and Romances.

Q What ſort of people do you converſe with?

A. Thoſe