The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… divide The flowing tresses, or, in borrow'd pride, Attach the ringlets: Quick, her hands displace, With rude attack, the honours of her face. Before the once-lov'd shrine she cannot stay; Half-dress'd and unberoug'd, she hastes away; And, … butter spread “Its yellow surface on the scanty bread. “At length the time arriv'd that I was shewn, “In all the honours of my mother's gown, “To meet the sneers and censures of the Town. “Yet to preserve my pride, my Sisters wore … Hammer shall pronounce her doom;" … Women … Beauty … Leisure … Combe, William. The Auction. A Town Eclogue. By the honourable Mr. ---: [i.e. William Combe] The third edition. London : printed for J. Bew, No. 28, Pater-Noster-Row, 1778. …
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