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fiildle plays; so they become a parcel of yellow-fac’d female tailors, very unequal matches fur countrymen ; just Flanders- babies, brought up in a box, and must be carried in a basket ; knows nothing but pinching poverty, hunger and pride ; can neither milk kye, muck a byre, card, spin, nor yet keep a cow from a corn-rig. The most of such, are as blind penny- worths as buying pigs in pocks, and ought only to be matched with Tacket- makers, tree-trimmers, and male tailois, that they may be male and 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 stitching of white seams round the moufh of a lady’s shoe ; or with barbers and bakers they might be buckled, because of their muslin mouth and pincobeck speeches, when barm is scam, 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 deau’s pow with a French puff They are all versed in all the sciences of flattery, musical tunes, horn-pipes, and country-dances, though perfect in none but the reel of Gammon.