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THE LADIES AMUSEMENTS.

This morning is so very fine, we’ll to the meadows walk, And when we to the town return, with shop-men we will talk. And a shoping we will go.

We’ll look at ribbons, laces, gloves, and none of them we’ll buy, But tell the haberdasher lads, we’ll call another day. And, &c.

Next to the mercers we will haste, we'll teaze their silks a while. And say we're vex’d for troubling them, then leave them with a smile. And, &c.

Hard ware and pretty glittering things, how shall we them refuse; We'll say they're for a country friend, and therefore cannot chuse. And, &c.

Upholsterers shall not escape, at this our grand review