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 Q. What is your form of devotion?

A. Six yards extraordinary furbelow’d up to the pockets, and three guineas for making.

Q. Why will you give a French woman three guineas, when an Engliſh woman would do it for one, as well, if not better?

A. Only for the name of having it made by a French woman, that when I am aſked by another Lady of quality, Who made my mantua? I may ſay, in a French tone, Madamoiſelle the French mantua-maker.

Q. How was you educate?

A. At a French boarding-ſchool.

Q. After what manner?

A. By the help of a French dancing-maſter, a French ſinging-maſter, and a French waiting-woman.

Q. Let me hear you proceed?

A. Before I could ſpeak Engliſh, I was taught to jabber French: In ſhort, I danced French dances at eight, ſung French ſongs at eleven, and before I was fifteen, could talk nothing elſe but French.

Q. Let me hear you go on till you come to twenty