THE YOUNG MAID'S PRAYER!!

O THOU divine little CUPID! blind, but unerring Archer, hear a tender Virgin of Sixteen addresses thee: Continue my diva as te to Dolls, and all the vain Appendages appertaining thereunto, and inspire me with Thoughts more Rational.

Thou knowest, though Young, I have more than once felt the keennefs of thy piercing
Arrow, firft in the Person of Mr. CRIMP, the Drill-Serjeant, who taught our young Ladies
the Military Step: Oh, the delightful Man! " Grace was in all his Steps, Heaven in his
Eye, in every G'efture was Dignity and Love!" But Alas! he was drummed out of his Regi-
ment, and left me to mourn in Silence and in Anguifh. Then there was Mr. PERT, the
Parfon, from Brazen Nofe College, he alfo, I confefs, infpired foft Emotions in my tender
Boſom; And next, O capricious Deity! came Mr. LOVEMORE, the moſt deceitful of his Sex.
Keep from my MAMMA, I befeech thee, the Knowledge of theſe Amours, as alſo my Attach-
ment to Captain BLUSTER, the dear enchanting Irifhman, let her not difcover the Billet-doux
he conveys to me in Private, but watch over our Loves, ſo that ultimately we may be made
Happy in a conſtant and affectionate Union.

Laftly, I befeech thee to watch over young Mr. SMART, of the Circulating Library; in-
crease his Stock of Novels and Romances, for from that delightful Store I firſt learnt to
break the Trammels of the Nurſery, and launch into the Pleafures of refined and polifhed
Society.

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