She was greatly too fimple to strike very deep,
And I thought more than once to have fallen asleep.
Her forrows in SHORE, were fo foft and fo ftill,
That my heart lay as fnug as a thief in a mill:
I never as yet have been much overcome,

With diftrefs that's fo gentle, with grief that's fo dumb:

And, to tell the plain truth, I have not feen any Thing yet, like the tumble of YATES in MANDANE: For acting fhould certainly rise above nature,

And indeed now and then she's a wonderful crea

ture

When ZARA's revenge burft in ftorms from her tongue,

With rage and reproach all the ample roof rung: ISABELLA too rose all superior to sadness,

And our hearts were well harrow'd with horror and madness.

From all fides the house, hark the cry how it fwells!
While the boxes are torn with most heart piercing yells;
The Miffes all faint, it becomes them fo vaftly,
And their cheeks are fo red that they never look
ghaftly:

Even Ladies advanced to their grand climacterics
Are often led out in a fit of hysterics;

The fcreams are wide-wafted Eaft, Weft, South, and North,

Loud Echo prolongs them on both fides the Forth.

You ask me what beauties moft touchingly strikeThey are beauteous all, and all beauteous alike,

With lovely complexions that time ne'er can tarnish, So thick they're laid o'er with a delicate varnish; Their bofoms and necks have a glofs and a burnish, And their cheeks with fresh roses from Raeburn they furnish.

I quickly return, and am just on the wing, And fomethings I'm fure that you'll like I will bring, The fweet SID DON's cap, the latest dear ogleFarewell till we meet

UR fummer fcene of amufement and gaiety being now ended, by the last night of Mrs Siddons's appearance, I think you should inform your country readers what have been the prevailing fashions this season. This is a most interesting subject of enquiry, for the manners and fafhions of the capital are most eagerly followed in the country.

You should tell your female country readers that the balloon hat and the Werter bonnet have given

way

way to the gypsey; and the Robin Gray is fast follow

ing.

FASHION has long held good fenfe and propriety in thraldom, but her triumph has never perhaps been fo striking as of late.-A little squat dumpling figure, under a gypsey hat, like Tom Thumb under a bee-hive, is the most ludicrous thing that modern fashion has exhibited. Even the tall and taper damfel looks like the pole of her umbrella, when fhe is rigged out in a flounced gypfey, and then the ventilation of our ftreets and lanes affords fo charming an opportunity of toffing the head about, to keep this piece of drefs, which is called an ornament, in management.

FASHION has often been at variance with nature and fimplicity, but now fhe is at perfect open war with them, and has lately introduced an appendage of drefs, which common sense may deem rather unfuitable to buxom beauties; yet they too will be monsters, if it is the fashion.-We have long had perfumers who furnish complexions, and red cheeks and pale lips are not uncommon. The lilly varnish for the mahogany fkin may be had at many cofmetic warehouses; but we have now, for the first time, got bottom fhops, and ladies of all ages and dimenfions, tall, fhort, fat, and lean, must have enormous b―s. Spinal tenuity and mamillary exuberance (see Johnson's Dictionary), have for some time been the fashion with the fair, but a pofterior ro

tundity,

tundity, or a balance, was wanting behind; and you may now tell the country laffes, if they wish to be Fashionable, they must resemble two blown bladders, tied together at the necks.

SAYS Lady Winterbottom t'other day to Mr Tiffaney, the haberdasher-Mr Tiffaney I want a new bottom.-Very well, Ma'am-happy to fupply your Ladyfhip-proud to say my b―s have been much approved of, and given fatisfaction. Not fo fast, Mr Tiffaney-the laft I had is worn out already.—Why, Ma'am, you very well know that no lady of fashion has been at reft five minutes in a place for fome time paft-What with races-morning and evening concerts-dinner parties-squeezing and mobbing to get into the playhouse-fits, and fainting soon after -toffing and tumbling to get out again—then affemblies, or fireworks, with the delicate affistance of a young fellow's arm-late fuppers, and all that fort of thing-why really, Ma'am, the best bottoms cannot support such tear and wear any length of time-Your Ladyfhip looks thinner fince last furnishing-Here now is a b-m, Ma'am-Your Ladyship's back, if you please-ay, this gets well up behind quite Ladyfhip's fize.-Rather flat, Mr Tiffaney-Plump as can be, your Ladyship—But I must have my old bottom repaired, Mr Tiffaney-We'll do the best we can, my Lady-Your Ladyfhip must allow that the artificial b-m is the most fundamental improvement of modern times. There was but t'other day, Mifs Plaufible, accompanied by her friend

Ꮓ

Mifs

Mifs Crop, bought a b―m here, and being to cross the water, the poor foul flipt her foot in stepping into the boat, and went fouce into the fea-the tide going three knots an hour-but, my Lady, fhe fat as fnug and compofed on the face of the water, as Queen Mab on the Goffamer.-With her bofom frame, gauzes, and flounces, fhe looked, by all the world, like a fwan on a cruize in a pond.— Your Ladyfhip means to go north foon, diverfions now over, prefume? Wish your Ladyfhip good weather to cross the ferries.-Thank you, Mr Tiffaney— You may as well send two b-ms.-Your Ladyfhip's right-it is best to be provided, in case of accident-Ladyfhip's most humble servant.

You may alfo inform your country readers that the male drefs has undergone fome change, though in general puppyifm has remained in ftatu quo for these fome months.

SOME few diftinguished spirits have endeavoured to new-model the beard, by making it half Jewish, half Christian, and have thought it an ornament to come into company with a tuft of hair, like a whinbush, on each cheek. But this favage fashion has not been much followed.

Rofes, or tufts of black ribbons or strings, tying the fhoes, inftead of buckles, have also appeared as a morning drefs; and by and by the country la

bourers