The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) by Thomas Baker
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subdu'd by Love, and the fond, foolish Nymph resigns her Pow'r, she's but
a meer _Appendix_ to a Fellow. _No more her darling Liberty can boast, Lovers no more her_ quondam _Beauties toast, But all her Pleasure, Pride and Charms are lost._ End of the First ACT. ACT II. SCENE, _The Park._ _Sir_ Harry_, and the_ Collonel. _Col._ Never a loose Lady tripping through the _Park_ to whet one's Appetite this Morning? Sir _Har._ Fie, _Collonel_, refine your Tast;----A common Woman! I'd as soon dine at a common Ordinary: Give me a Woman of Condition, there's Pride as well as Pleasure in such an Amour. _Col._ Your Women of Condition, Pox on em, are like Noblemen's Dinners, all Garniture and no Meat, then, the Ceremony of Approach and Retire, palls a Man's Inclination, 'till he grows indifferent i' the Matter;-- |
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