CREATURE. A quality expreffion, of low con tempt, properly confin'd only to the mouths of ladies who are right honourable. CRITIC. race. COXCOMB, Like homo, a name given to all the human A word of reproach, and yet at the fame time fignifying all that is most commendable. DAMNATION. A term appropriated to the Theatre: though fometimes more largely applied to all works of invention. DEATH. The final end of man; as well as of the thinking part of the body, as of all the other parts. DRESS. The principal accomplishment of men and women. DULLNESS. A word applied by all writers to the wit and humour of others. EATING. A fcience. FINE. An adjective of a very peculiar kind, destroying, or, at least leffening the force of the fubftantive to which it is joined, as fine gentleman, fine lady, fine houfe, fine cloaths, fine tafte!-in all which, fine is to be understood in a fenfe fomewhat fynonymous with ufelefs. FOOL. A complex idea, compounded of poverty, honefty, piety, and finiplicity. GALLANTRY. Fornication and adultery. GREAT. Applied to a thing, fignifies bignefs: when to a man, often littlenefs, or meannels. GOOD. A word of as many different fenfes as the Greek word 'Exw, or as the Latin Ago; for which reason it is but little used by the polite. HAPPINESS. Grandeur. KNAVE. The name of four cards in every pack. KNOWLEDGE. In general, means knowledge of the town; as this is, indeed, the only kind of knowledge ever spoken of in the polite world. LEARNING. Pedantry. LOVE. A word properly applied to our delight, in particular kinds of food; fometimes metaphorically spoken of the favourite objects of all our appetites. MARRIAGE, A kind of traffic carried on between the two fexes, in which both are conftantly endeavouring to cheat each other, and both are commonly lofers in the end. MISCHIEF. Fun, fport, or pastime. MODESTY. Aukwardness, rufticity. NO-BODY. All the people in Great-Britain, except about 1200. NONSENSE. Philofophy, especially the philofophical writings of the ancients, and more especially of Ariftotle. OPPORTUNITY. OPPORTUNITY. The feafon of cuckoldom. PATRIOT POLITICS. A candidate for a place at court. The art of getting fuch a place. PROMISE. Nothing. RELIGION. A word of no meaning; but which ferves as a bugbear to frighten children with. RICHES. The only thing upon earth that is really defireable, or valuable. ROGUE. A man of different party from your felf. RASCAL. } SERMON A fleepy dofe. SUNDAY. The best time for playing at cards. SHOCKING. An epithet which fine ladies apply to almost any thing. It is, indeed, an interjection (if I may fo call it) of delicacy. TEMPERANCE. Want of spirit. TASTE. The present whim of the town, whatever it be. TEASING. Advice; chiefly that of a husband. VIRTUE. VICE. } Subjects of difcourfe. WIT. Prophanenefs, indecency, immorality, feurrility, mimickry, buffoonery; abuse of all good men, and especially of the clergy. WORTH. Power, rank, wealth. WISDOM. The art of acquiring all three. WORLD. Your own acquaintance. STANZAS STANZAS TO THE LADIES. ON THEIR HEAD-DRESS FOR THE YEAR 1768. Tot premit ordinibus, tot adhuc compagibus altum HAVE ye never feen a net Hanging at your kitchen door, Stuff'd with dirty ftraw, befet With old skewers o'er and o'er ? If you have-it wonder breeds Ye from hence fhould steal a fashion, And should heap your lovely heads Such a deal of filthy trash on. True, your treffes wreath'd with art (Bards have faid it ten times o'er) Form a net, to catch the heart Of the most unfeeling lover. But thus robb'd of half your beauty, By his nofe, or by his eye? When When he views (what fcarce I'd credit When he views treffes thin, your Tortur'd by fome French frifeur, Horfe-hair, hemp, and wool within, Garnish'd with a diamond skewer. When he scents the mingled fteam, SQUOXAM. A SONG FOR THE MALL. A PARODY ON WHITEHEAD'S SONG FOR RANE LAGH. BY A LADY. YE foplings and prigs, and ye wou'd-be fmart things, Who move in wide Commerce's round, Pray tell me, from whence this abfurdity springs, All orders of rank to confound? What |