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 N�Terr.Filius. &, and back again. He ldom eats any and never reads any thing but oveb and When he w!ks the reet, he is eafily diflingui- ed by a ifffilkgovn, which rule in the wind, as he rut. along; a flaxen tie-rig, or fometimesa long natural one, which reaches down below his rump a broad bu-cocle'd ht, or a [quare cap o abov twice the ufuaI fize hite flockings, thin 8pan lea- ther hoes; his doaths }in'd with tawdry fiIk, and hi irt ruffed down the bofom as well as at the vs. Betides all which marks, he has a delicate jaunt in his gait, and tinelis very phl,phic,lIy of elTonco. This is a tre &fcription of my cormfpon&nt and I leave the reader to judge, whether this is pro- perly good breeding, or ridiculous grimace, and in- conliflent coege p er There is I agree with .  y. not, . Frqbe, a deficiency of this fort of politen Oxvi out a man, in my opinion, may be iIl-manner'd under a filk govn, and do very uncivil hings, though he wears lan ruffes., f-or inflance, why may not one of there e?liare ,I fparks damn all rangers, or knock them on, (provided he has a mob to defend lfim,) as well as a ragged fe[vitor 'ver the better'bred Dr being better clad  Or good manners eonfi in tOs or filk fiockins l That a gay fuit of doaths often hides a bad skm. and that altght ig lets off a dirty countenance. I am well ough convinced i t that they can hide too a Otude of ru&n 0 and i manne.. or atone for �m. is what I never yet read either in hob true. or rb bane hil�oPky I ould not. formy part. pp p. . . like a kith of the breeh eer the better for hawng from a red-topt oei nor do I think that a bro}e head world mart the lets, tho' it wee to be wih a clouded can.

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