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Strictures On Public Amusements.
Be this their Speculation ; / profess To speculate in one thing only—DRESS : Shew me your garments Gents and Ladies fair , I'll tell you whence you came , and who you are ; But , Sportsman like , to hit the game I'll try , Charge , prime , present my glass , and cock my eye . What a fine harvest this gay season yields 1 Some female heads appear like stubble fields ;
Who now of threaten'd / uffi / TO dare complain , When every female forehead teems with grain ? See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes ; Our bant are now transferr'd to drawing rooms : '' While husbands who delight in active lives , To fill their granaries may thrash their wives .
Nor wives alone prolific notice draw , Old maids and young ones all are in the straw . That damsel wrapt in shawls , who looks so blue , Is a return from India— things won ' t do—That market ' s up , she could not change her name , Nor RAMRAMROWS nor YANGWIIANGWOI ' ' came , " Bad Speculation , Bet , so far to roam ; " Black legs go out , and jail birds now come home . " That stripling there , all trowsers and cravat , No body and no chin , is call'd aflat : And he beside him , in the straight cut frock ,
Button'd before , behind a square cut dock , Is , I would bet , nor fear to be a loser , Either a man of fashion or a bruiser . A man of fashion—nothing but a quiz—I'll shew you what a man of fashion is . With back to fire , slouched hat and vulgar slang , He charms his mistress with this sweet harangue : " What lovely charming Kitty—how d'ye do ?
..- * ' Come—see my puppy ?"— " No , Harry , to see you . " * ' You ' re vastly welcome—you shall see my stud , " And ride my poney : " — " Harry you ' re too good . " " Zounds how it freezes : Fly was mySancbo ' s sire : " Miss would you see" — " Harry , I'd wish to see the fire ,- " That's your true breeding , that's your flaming lover ; The fair may freeze , but he is warm all over . We ' re an odd medley , you must needs confess , Strange in our manners , stranger in our dress :
IVbm is the word—droll pantomimic age , With true tip tops of taste grotesque ' s the rage , Beaux with short waists , and small cloaths close confiii'd ; Belles bunched before , and bundled up behind ; The flights of fashion bordering on buffoon , One looks like Punch , the other Pantaloon : But hold—my raillery makes some look gruff , Therefore I ' m off— I ' m sure I've said enough .
The Arts.
THE ARTS .
THA T respectable veteran , ZOFFANI , has resumed the Dramatic pencil , by which he so highly distinguished himself in the times of GARRICK and FOOTE , for the purpose of making a series of pictures of the same kind , on subjects derived from dramatic pieces of the present day . He has already proceeded far on a picture representing that whimsical scene in the new Comedy of Speculation ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Strictures On Public Amusements.
Be this their Speculation ; / profess To speculate in one thing only—DRESS : Shew me your garments Gents and Ladies fair , I'll tell you whence you came , and who you are ; But , Sportsman like , to hit the game I'll try , Charge , prime , present my glass , and cock my eye . What a fine harvest this gay season yields 1 Some female heads appear like stubble fields ;
Who now of threaten'd / uffi / TO dare complain , When every female forehead teems with grain ? See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes ; Our bant are now transferr'd to drawing rooms : '' While husbands who delight in active lives , To fill their granaries may thrash their wives .
Nor wives alone prolific notice draw , Old maids and young ones all are in the straw . That damsel wrapt in shawls , who looks so blue , Is a return from India— things won ' t do—That market ' s up , she could not change her name , Nor RAMRAMROWS nor YANGWIIANGWOI ' ' came , " Bad Speculation , Bet , so far to roam ; " Black legs go out , and jail birds now come home . " That stripling there , all trowsers and cravat , No body and no chin , is call'd aflat : And he beside him , in the straight cut frock ,
Button'd before , behind a square cut dock , Is , I would bet , nor fear to be a loser , Either a man of fashion or a bruiser . A man of fashion—nothing but a quiz—I'll shew you what a man of fashion is . With back to fire , slouched hat and vulgar slang , He charms his mistress with this sweet harangue : " What lovely charming Kitty—how d'ye do ?
..- * ' Come—see my puppy ?"— " No , Harry , to see you . " * ' You ' re vastly welcome—you shall see my stud , " And ride my poney : " — " Harry you ' re too good . " " Zounds how it freezes : Fly was mySancbo ' s sire : " Miss would you see" — " Harry , I'd wish to see the fire ,- " That's your true breeding , that's your flaming lover ; The fair may freeze , but he is warm all over . We ' re an odd medley , you must needs confess , Strange in our manners , stranger in our dress :
IVbm is the word—droll pantomimic age , With true tip tops of taste grotesque ' s the rage , Beaux with short waists , and small cloaths close confiii'd ; Belles bunched before , and bundled up behind ; The flights of fashion bordering on buffoon , One looks like Punch , the other Pantaloon : But hold—my raillery makes some look gruff , Therefore I ' m off— I ' m sure I've said enough .
The Arts.
THE ARTS .
THA T respectable veteran , ZOFFANI , has resumed the Dramatic pencil , by which he so highly distinguished himself in the times of GARRICK and FOOTE , for the purpose of making a series of pictures of the same kind , on subjects derived from dramatic pieces of the present day . He has already proceeded far on a picture representing that whimsical scene in the new Comedy of Speculation ,