How smart! how beautiful I’d dress me!

Such bonnets, mantles, ruffs, and puffs,

Such gowns, and furbelows, and muffs,

With chains and ear-rings, watch and broche,

And Madam Homespun in her coach:

So grand! so stately! who but me?

How mad my neighbour Barnes will be!

Peace, said the husband, pr’ythee, peace!

’Tis time this idle talk should cease:

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Consider what we have at stake!