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Rh the Bold and Rich Thrive in the World, when the Poor and the Bahful go a Begging: But Virtue is never the les Venerable for being out of Fahion.

here was a Brother and a Siter that happen’d to look in a Glas both together: The Brother a very Lovely Youth, and the Siter as hard favourd as a Girl could well be. Look ye (ays the Boy,) and have not I a very Good Face now? This the Las took for a Reproach, as if hers were not o too. What does this Envious Tit, bur away to her Father, with a Tale of her Brother, how Effeminately he Behav'd himelf, and that a Petticoat would become him better then a Sword. The Good Man Kis'd them both, and Reconciled the Controvery. My Dear Children, ays he, I lay my Command upon ye Both to look often in a Glas; You Son, to keep a Guard upon your Self, not to Dihonour the Advantages that Nature has given ye, with Ill Manners: And you Daughter, (ays he) to Mind you of Supplying the Defects of an External and a Tranitory Beauty, with the more ubtantial Ornaments of Piety and Virtue.