CUTTING.
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Isabella, Sarah Anne,
Fat Estella, and one other,
Call me an immoral man—
I have cut their drinking brother.
Thus it is—be only civil—
Dance with stupid, short and tall—
Know no line ’twixt saint and devil—
Spend your wit on fools and all—
Simper with the milk-and-waters—
Suffer bores, and talk of caps—
Trot out people’s awkward daughters—
You may scandal ’scape—perhaps!
But prefer the wise and pretty—
Pass Reserve to dance with Wit—
Let the slight be e’er so petty,
Pride will never pardon it.
Woman never yet refused
Virtues to a seeming wooer—
Woman never yet abused
Him who had been civil to her.
H.
