Still, disposed of Man's A B C, there 's X

Y Z want assistance,—the Fair Sex!

How much may be said in excuse of

Those vanities—males see no use of—

From silk shoe on heel to laced poll's-hood!

What 's their frailty beside our own falsehood?

The boldest, most brazen of ... trumpets,

How kind can they be to their dumb pets!

Of their charms—how are most frank, how few venal!

While as for those charges of Juvenal—