 any Trader, nor of Innocence in the Commerce between the Sexes. The Glow of Modesty is the only Rouge that will be allowed to any fair Face of Quality, in these his Majesty's Dominions.
No Person of any Station, will hereafter be permitted to go abroad in search of Faults, till they can find none at Home by the help of a Candle. And lastly, all Slander is to be accounted petty Treason; forasmuch as it has been intimated, some how or other, that the Loss of a good Name is more deplorable, in its Consequences, than the Loss of any other Property, or even of Life.
Hey Day! exclaims the Countess, at this Rate we shall have Lady
Homespun
at the very tip Top of the Mode.  �  Ay, says Miss
Trinket,
but what will become of your Ladyship, who are now accounted the Pattern of all Elegance and Politeness? O Miss, cried Mr.
Faddle,
Lady
Maitland
will do well enough I warrant you. She has only to drop a few Articles that are superfluous to her good Sense and her good Nature. She will thereby, as I take it, be only undressed, and happily restored to all her native Loveliness.
Dem'me, exclaims Sir
Bumkin,
if Matters come to this pass, I shall have made a fine Kettle of Fish on't, shan't I? to throw away so many thousands of Pounds, with an Immensity of Time and Pains on Delicacy, and Taste, and Virtu, and the Beau-Monde, and all that � What, cries Mrs.
Mawkin,
are our Parliament beside themselves? here has the World been growing up, these six thousand Years, to its grand Climacteric of courtly Accomplishments, and now they would overthrow the whole Building, and mix us of the Pinnacle with the Dust of the Vulgar. If we of high Life are to be laid under Restraints, with Cits and Villagers, what Advantage will Fortune give us? it will no longer be of any Use to its Owners.  � This is preposterously, cried Mrs.
Philligree,
the most laughable Scheme that ever was conceivable on this Side the Tropic. Our Parliament would affect to be an heteroclite to all other Parliaments. But the best on't is that their Power is immensely too little for the Greatness of the Immensity of their Undertaking � Pardon me, Madam, replied the Colonel, I know of nothing beyond the Ability of our Parliament. In Spirituals, alike as Temporals, their Power is the same in
England
as that of the
Pope
is at
Rome;
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