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

No art from him can shield exterior charms.

But would you, fair ones, be esteem’d, approved,

And with an everlasting ardor loved;

Would you in wrinkled age, admirers find,

In every female virtue dress the mind;

Adorn the heart, and teach the soul to charm,

And when the eyes no more the breast can warm,

These ever-blooming beauties shall inspire

Each gen’rous heart with friendship’s sacred fire;

These charms shall neither wither, fade, nor fly;