But in Patronage Royal delighting;

And which now your own feminine fantasy wins,

Tho' it scarce seems a lady-like work, that begins

In a scratching and ends in a biting!

Yet oh! that the dames of the Scandalous School

Would but use the same acid, and sharp-pointed tool,

That are plied in the said operations—

Oh! would that our Candours on copper would sketch!

For the first of all things in begining to etch

Are—good grounds for our representations.