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 Q. Why would you have your ſteward Engliſh, and all the reſt of your ſervants Foreigners?

A. Becauſe I would be cheated in my own language; I would have my footman a Frenchman, my butler an Italian, my porter a Dutchman, and my coachman a Spaniard; then for my furniture, I would have nothing Engliſh from my bed to my chamber-pot, and was I forced to eat Engliſh proviſions, they ſhould come from Cornwall, Berwick upon Tweed, or ſome other remote place.

Q. How do you beſtow your charity?

A. On ſuperannuated Ladies, and the French Whores, whole pride and vanity have brought them to poverty; and yet retain ſo much of the French modes, that to the laſt you may ſee them in an old tattered ſilk gown, high head, and draggled tail, a pair of laced ſhoes, an old furbelow’d ſcarf, and never a ſmock on: and theſe they will have, if they dine on ſcraps for a fortnight.

Q. What do the poor get at your door?