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yourself under my directions, and if in three months' time you are not fast bound in Hymeneal fetters to your heart's content, say I have no skill in the science of divination, or that the fascinations of bright eyes and beauteous faces have lost all their influence upon mankind.

How delightful to follow an elegant fair,

In her figure a Venus, a seraph in air,

With an ankle well turn'd, and a foot neat and small,

Tripping down Piccadilly, or pacing the Mall;
With a heart palpitating, and breathless, you pace

At full double quick time, for a glance of her face,
When, oh, horror! how frightful, and great your surprise,
"Tis an old harridan, with two odd goggle eyes,
Dress'd up à la Français, a wrinkled old ewe,

Trick'd out to inveigle some innocent beau.

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Point vi.

MISERIES OF LONDON.

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"LONDON is a world by itself; we daily discover in it more new countries and surprising singularities than in all the universe besides; there are among the Londoners so many nations differing in manners, customs, and religions, that the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of them. Some carry, others are carried: Make way there!' says a gouty-legged chairman, that is carrying a pink of quality to a morning's exercise, or a Bartholomew-baby-beau, newly launched out of a chocolate house, with his pockets as empty as his brains. Make room there!' says another fellow, driving a wheelbarrow of nuts, that spoil the lungs of the city apprentices, and make them wheeze over their mistresses as bad as the phlegmatic cornutos their masters. One draws, another drives: Stand up there, you blind dog,' says a carman, 'will you have the cart squeeze you to death?' One tinker knocks, another bawls Have you brass pot, kettle, skillet, or frying-pan to mend?' whilst another son of a yelps louder than Homer's Stentor, 'Two a groat, or four for sixpence, mackerel.' One draws

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