Figures of Tools
Will you adapt this stately [wooing];
With [bows] the courtly Dame [pursuing],
While she with stiff and haughty air,
Scarce listens to her Lovers prayer
[h]old sir again peruse each feature,
Nor tremble to support your Claim,
This seeming stately dressing Dame
Will prove a plain domestic Creature,
Her hoop a Pail appears, right soon
A mop her French Wig’s flowing charms
Her Ruffles [pate pans] her arms
A Toasting Fork and [t]asting spoon.
Thus with domestic Habits blest
The Lot methinks may well content ye,
That promises, who will jest
A well stored House, and wealth in plenty.