And spares Belinda all domestic pains;

Of food she knows but this, that we are fed;

Though, duly taught, she prays for daily bread,

Yet, whence it comes, of hers is no concern—

It comes; and more she never wants to learn.

She on the table sees the common fare, 30

But, how provided, is beneath her care.

Lovely and useless, she has no concern

About the things that aunts and mothers learn;

But thinks, when married—if she thinks at all—