Are kept and shown to feed a woman’s pride: 60
Old-fashion’d, ugly, call them what she will,
They serve as signs of her importance still.
She thinks they might inferior forms adorn
And does not love to hear them used with scorn;
Till, on some day when she has need of dress,
And none at hand to serve her in distress,
She takes th’ insulted robe, and turns about;
Long-hidden beauties one by one peer out.
“’Tis not so bad! see, Jenny—I declare,