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Rh Isabella, Sarah Anne,
 * Fat Estella, and one other,

Call me an immoral man—
 * I have cut their drinking brother.

Thus it is—be only civil—
 * Dance with stupid, short and tall—

Know no line ’twixt saint and devil—
 * Spend your wit on fools and all—

Simper with the milk-and-waters—
 * Suffer bores, and talk of caps—

Trot out people’s awkward daughters—
 * You may scandal ’scape—perhaps!

But prefer the wise and pretty—
 * Pass Reserve to dance with Wit—

Let the slight be e’er so petty,
 * Pride will never pardon it.

Woman never yet refused
 * Virtues to a seeming wooer—

Woman never yet abused
 * Him who had been civil to her.

H.