Nay wicked wits have faid what's worse,
"A Taylor, came in with the curfe,
To Brambles, is a younger brother;
That, make the most of him you can,
He's but the ninth part of a man."

But wherefore all this noise and pother? Tho' he fits cross-leg'd at his work,

It's only fitting like a Turk,

To

And Turks were always women's men,
From Bajazet to Kouli Khan.

prove that Taylors are.

One of the order,

Having leifure,

the fame ;

Not to get rid of a disorder,

But merely for his pleasure,

From London to Brighthelm fone came;
One night, ftrolling about the streets,
A beauteous maid, my Taylor meets,
Well turn'd each limb, divine each feature,
Full of good wishes, and good nature.

Our Taylor was not mute,

But thus began his fuit:

Fairest of all the fair, attend my lays,

Lift to the founds I utter in thy praise :
Bright are thy damask cheeks, in colour vie,
With the rich fcarlet cloth's most coftly die.
Thy iwimming eyes outfhine the gloffy jet,
Rival the buttons made of marquefet.

Thy

Thy lips, thy ruby lips, to me appear
Like the red cabbage steep'd in vinegar.
Then be not like the cucumber, fo cold,
Maidens, like fashions will, in time grow old.
Come then, delay not, let us walk, my fair,
And taste the sweetness of the midnight air."
Such words what maiden could refift,
Her virgin fears were all dismist,

The night was dark, all things were hufh,
And in the dark she need not blush:

Or if she should, it is not feen,
Nor can be felt-that's all I mean.
So, nothing loth, with him the run,
First to the beech, then fhady grove,
Which frolic Pan, and Neptune love,
Where this poor damfel was undone:
And, as he tells,

Her bark fo blown, and tempeft tost,
'Twas over-fet, nay almost lost.
But all the Belles,

Turn up their nofes, and cry-fye,

This Taylor ftory can't be true,

Pray, Madam, what think you, and you?
One half at least must be a lie!

Yet the machine I faw to day,

And in the fields are marks, they fay,

No less than fix in feven hours!

My ftars! Oh Lud! Oh Heavenly potvers !

Ladies be patient-I advise,
You all attend at the Affize,

Where this poor Caitiff will be tried,
Then you shall all be satisfied.

Great wigs will make the matter plain,
But if you cannot wait 'till then,
I'll tell you how-with a grave face,
The learned judge will ope the case ;
And 'twill appear,

To every ftander-bye moft clear,
This Taylor, not having the fear
Of God before his eyes,

Both law and punishment defies.

Did with CLUBS, STAVES, PISTOLS, and

SWORDS,

FIRELOCKS, and FORCE, and WICKED WORDS, ENTICE AWAY,

TREPAN, BETRAY,

This SPINSTER to the Ocean's fhore,

And there, as fundry times before,

BEING INSTIGATED BY THE DEVIL.-
Ye curious Fair,

Note this care;

Induc'd this damfel to do evil.

Now, my good girls, an INSTIGATOR,
In fuch a ticklish matter,

May be, I think, fairly defin'd
A PARTNER, in the whole affair,
This folves the problem to a hair :

A Devil,

A Devil, and Taylor, when in arms,
Do all by Spells, Magic and Charms;

Had there been seven instead of one,
Unless he is belied,

All the whole feven had been undone,
At least he would have tried.

Think of his prowess, and his youth,
Then anfwer, if you can, with truth;
Should the wife fages of the law,
Condemn to death, for this faux pas,
But give the option of a ring,
If he prefers it to a fwing,

Tell me, to ransom such a life;

Which of

you would not be his WIFE?

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

Trin. Coll. Cambridge, March 13, 1786. WHEREAS a grace for preventing entertainments in private rooms, lately paffed in the University of Cambridge, has been put in execution with fuch ftrictness (particularly in one or two of the Colleges) as to occafion great inconveniencies to many of the younger members of the University, all which would be effectually remedied even by a moderate knowledge of that most useful fcience of Cookery; Mifs Diana Young,

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Young, having been repeatedly folicited upon the occafion, is induced, from motives of philanthropy, to take this opportunity of informing thofe gentlemen of the University, who, having been already convinced of the great advantage of a proficiency in the fcience of Cookery, may be defirous of making themfelves mafters of that science, that (without the permiffion of the Vice Can.) fhe intends in a short time, by the Grace of God, to give a courfe of lectures in Mrs. Glafs's Cookery; and has taken a commodious room for the purpose near Caius Coll. As the understands that the gentlemen of Trinity Coll. in particular labour at prefent under the greatest inconveniencies from the late reftrictions, fhe flatters berfelf her lectures will be peculiarly acceptable to the greater part of that truly refpectable fociety: And as fhe is told that the gentlemen of Caius Coll. are great advocates for pre-eminence in the higher branches of Cookery, the humbly hopes for encouragement from that fociety alone. Mifs D. Young, having had the honour of practifing her profeffion in one of the first families in Norfolk, in the vicinity of Norwich, doubts not that her lectures will meet with the approbation she is confident they deserve.

The intention of them is to perfect gentlemen, who may be defirous of attempting that very useful branch of natural philofophy, in it, from its very elements

to