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or agrreableneſs; yet, even the knowledge of their being ſo common, is with many totally forgotten in the raviſhing diſplay of their natural and acquired charms. They dance to the muſic of cymbals, fifes, and drums, they term tum-tums, and often repreſent in pantomime ſuch ſcenes, as a lover courting his miſtreſs; a procureſs, endeavouring to ſeduce a woman from one gallant to another; and a girl, timordos and afraid of being caught in an intrigue. All theſe love-ſcenes, they perform, in geſtures, air, and ſteps, with well-adapted expreſſion. In ſome of their dances, even in public, modeſty is not much reſpected in the motions of their limbs, the quiver-
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