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what monstrous rags are here ! what of cloth is consumed for the covering of but one pair of buttocks ! I leave it to the judgement of any ten tailors in town, if thirty pair of men’s breeches may not be cut from a little above the easing of Bessy’s bum ; and this makes her a mo- therly woman, as stately a fabric as ever strade to market or mill. But when she’s married, she turns a mad man; her mistress did not work much, and why should she ? Her mother ay said she wad be a lady, but could never tell where her lands lay ; but when money is all spent, credit broken and conduct out of keeping, a wheen bonny bubly bairns, crying ' piece minny,’ ‘passie minny,’ the witless wanton waster is at her wit’s end : work now, or want, and do not say that the world has war’d you ; but lofty Noddle your giddy headed mother has led you astray, by learning you to be a Lady, before you was fit to be a servant lass, by teaching you laziness in- stead of hard labour, by giving you such a high conceit of yourself, that no body thinks any thing of you now ; and you may judge yourself to be but little worth ; after all, my dear dirty face, when you begin the warld again, be perfectly rich, before you be gentle, work hard for what