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fiddle plays ; so they became a parcel of yellow-fac'd female tailors, very unequal matches for countrymen; just Flanders. babies, brought up in a box, and must be carried in a basket; knows nothing but pinching poverty, hunger & pride; can neither milk kye, muck a byre, card, spin, nor keep a cow from a cornrigg. The most of such are as blind pennyworths, as buying pigs in pocks, and ought only to be matched with Tacketmakers, tree-trimmers, & male-tailors, that they may be male & female agree-able in trade, since their piper-faced fingers are not for hard labour ; yet they might also pass in a pinch for a black sutor's wife, for the stiching of white seams round the mouth of ladys' shoes; or with barbers and bakers they might be buckled because of their muslin mouth and pinchbeck speeches, when barm is scant they can blow up their bread with fair wind; and when the razor is rough, can trim their chafts with a fair tale, oil their peruke with her white lips, and powder the beau's pow with a French puff. They are all versed in the sciences of flattery, musical tunes, hornpipes, and country dances, though perfect in none but the reel of Gammon.