HOW I've splash'd and soil'd my gown!
With this gadding through the town:
How bedraggled is my skirt,
Trapesing through the bye-streets dirt:
In what a state for me to be,
From this Town-life gaiety!
Come girls here, come all I know,
Playmates mine, advise me, shew
In this plight that I'm come to,
What is best for me to do?
And restore my gown again?
Is to wash it out I try-
Washing shrinks the cloth when dry;
Makes the colour often fade,
Or else gives a darker shade:
If I cut it out, there'll be
Such a hole that all must see:
If I rub it hard, 'twill take
All the nap off then, and make
Yet more plain, the stain that ne'er
Honest maiden's dress should bear.
Pray then tell me some of you,
What in this mishap to do?
Thus so slut-like to be stain'd,
Makes me of myself asham'd;
For wherever I may go,
People will look at me so, -
And think perhaps, -such dirt to see,
I'm not what i ought to be.
Say, can none of you suggest,
What in such a case is best?-
No? - then this I plainly se,
You must warning take by me!
If you would not soil your gown;
Go not gadding trough the town:
In the streets who plays the flirt,
Never yet escaped some firt: -
Run not therefore East and West,
Home for girls is mucht the best.
Walking, trav'lling to and fro;
Over land or over sea,
In whatever way it be;
In the Country or the Town,
Over meadow, dale or down,
Over hill or over moor,
In the house or out of door,
Over road or over street,
Girls, where'er you bend your feet,
Keep your Clothes and Kirtles neat.
A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than
silver and gold. - Proverbs xxii. 1.
Redire, cum periit, nescit pudor. - Senec. Agam.
Ego illum periisse puto, cui periit pudor.- PLAUT.
Omnia si perdas; famam servare memento;
Qua semel emissa postea nullus eris.
Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet.
Although the wound be healed it always leaves a scar.
Of schoon de wond'al is genesen,
Daer sal noch al een teyrken wesen.- Old Dutch Proverb.
Die in een quaet geruchte kommt, is half gehangen. - I bid.
Who comes to an evil repute is half hanged.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou wert observed
by ten eyes, and pointed at by ten fingers.- CONFUCIUS.
PUT a curb upon thy desires if thou would'st not fall into some disorder.- ARISTOTLE.
IT is better to be poor, and not have been wanting in discretion, than to attain
the summit of our wishes by a loose conduct.- DIOGENES.
BE discreet in your discourse, but much more in your actions; the first evaporates,
the latter endure for ever.- PHOCYLIDES.
SHUN the society of the depraved, lest you follow their pernicious example, and lose
yourself with them.- PLATO.
Eer is teer. Honour is tender.
The finest silk will spoil the soonest.
Celle n'est pas entièrement chaste qui fait douter de sa pudicité.
BEFORE my Light was to the winds a scorne,
My body likewise subject to be torne;
Now for a safeguard I this lantere have,
So whilst I shine from wrong it doth me save;
Even as the Diamond his light forth sends,
And with his hardnesse still himselfe defends.
Honour is subject to unconstant chance,
Nor can it without envy 't selfe advance:
Vertue to honour is a brasen wall,
Guarded with which, it is not hurt at all;
And how so ever Fortun's stormes doe blow,
Yet Glory lurking thus, his light can show.
FARLIE's Emblems.
NONE CAN CLEAN THEIR DRESS FROM STAIN, BUT SOME BLEMISH WILL REMAIN
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