Edinburgh, Or the Ancient Royalty: a Sketch of Former Manners : With Notes
Edinburgh, Or the Ancient Royalty: a Sketch of Former Manners : With Notes
Alexander Boswell
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They chat of dress (as ladies will) and cards, And fifty friends within three hundred yards Or now they listeu all, in merry glee. While " Nancy Dawson, " " Sandie o'er the ke* (Than foreign cadence surely sweeter far, ) Ring on the jingling spinet or guitar. The clogs are ready when the treat is o'er. And many a blazing lauthorn leaves the door. Then were tlae days of modesty of mein ! Stays for the fet, and quilting for the lean. Note 13. 27 The ribbon'd stomacher, in manj- a plait, Upheld th...e chest and dignified the gait ; Some Venus, brightest planet of the train, Moved in a lutstring halo prop'd with cane. Then the Assembly Closs recei\ ed the Fair ; Order and elegance presided tliere ; Each gay l^ht Honourable had her ptace To walk a minuet with becooiing grace ; No racing to tbe dance, >vith rival hurry- Such was thy sway, O fam'd J^S9 Nicky Murray . ' Each Lady's fan a chosen Damon bore. With care selected many a day before ; For, unprovided with a favourite beau, Tlie nymph, chagrined, the ball must needs forgo ; * Note 14.
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