Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. / To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

by Anonymous

The sons of Italy were surely blest.

Whatever fruits in different climes are found,

That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground;

Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear,

Whose bright succession decks the varied year:

Whatever sweets salute the northern sky,

With vernal leaves that blossom but to die:

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These here disporting, own the kindred soil,

Nor ask luxuriance from their planter’s toil;

While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand,