rings.
4 This man is such a strange compound of folly and
eccentricity, that he is eternally in hot water with some
one or other.
5 Mrs. Fanny G-1-s, the ci-devant wife of a corn merchant,
a celebrated courtezan, who sports a splendid equipage, and
has long figured upon town as a star of the first order in
the Cyprian hemisphere. She has some excellent qualities,
as poor M---------n can vouch; for when the fickle goddess
Fortune left him in the lurch, she has a handsome annuity
from a sporting peer, who was once the favoured swain.
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From out her carriage peeps;
She nods to am'rous Mrs. D-----,{6}
Who bends with most sublime congee,
While ruin'd-----------sleeps.
Who follows 1 'tis the hopeful son
Of the proud Earl of H-----------n,
Who stole the parson's wife.{7}
The Earl of H-----------and flame,
For cabriolets she's the dame,{8}
A dasher, on my life.
Jack T-----1 shows his pleasant face{9};
A royal likeness here you'll trace,
You'd swear he was a Guelph.
See Lady Mary's U------walk,{10}
And though but aide-de-camp to York,
An Adonis with himself,
6 Mrs. D---------, alias Mrs. B-k-y, alias Miss Montague,
the wife of poor Jem B-k-y, the greater his misfortune,--a
well known Paphian queen, one of five sisters, who are all
equally notorious, and whose history is well known. She is
now the favoured sultana of a ci-devant banker, whose name
she assumes, to the disgrace of himself and family.
7 The clerical cornuto recovered, in a crim. con. action,
four thousand pounds for the loss of his frail rib, from
this hopeful sprig of nobility.
8 Mrs. S------, a most voluptuous lady, the discarded chere
amie of the late Lord F-1-d, said to be the best carriage
woman in the park: she lies in the Earl of H-------
--'s cabriolet most delightfully stretched out at full
length, and in this elegant posture is driven through the
park.
9 Captain T------l of the guards, whose powerful similitude
to the reigning family of England is not more generally
admitted than his good-humoured qualities are universally
admired.
10 The Hon. General U---------, aide-de-camp to the Duke of
York, whose intrig
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