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

To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.

“But small the bliss that sense alone bestows,

And sensual bliss is all the nation knows.

In florid beauty groves and fields appear,

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Contrasted faults thro’ all his manners rein;

Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain;

Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue;

And e’en in penance planning sins anew.

All evils here contaminate the mind,