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 thee, and les the Party’s own; uch are the outward Ornaments of the Peron, and for which Men are beholden to the Taylor, the Laceman, the Perriwigmaker, the Hatter, and the Milliner, and not to Nature. Such a Paion Girls may well be ahamed, as they generally are, to own either to themelves or to others.

The Love of Mis Bridget was of another Kind. The Captain owed nothing to any of thee Fop-makers in his Dres, nor was his Peron much more beholden to Nature, Both his Dres and Peron were uch as, had they appeared in an Aembly, or a Drawing-room, would have been the Contempt and Ridicule of all the fine Ladies there. The former of thee was indeed neat, but plain, coare, ill-fancied, and out of Fahion. As for the latter, we have expresly decribed it above. So far was the Skin on his Cheeks from being Cherry-coloured, that you could not dicern what the natural Colour of his Cheeks was, they being totally overgrown by a black Beard, which acended to his Eyes. His Shape and Limbs were indeed exactly proportioned, but o large, that they denoted the Strength rather of a Ploughman than any other. His Shoulders were broad, beyond all Size, and