<p>HOW I've splash'd and soil'd my gown!<lb/> With this gadding through the town:<lb/> How bedraggled is my skirt,<lb/> Trapesing through the bye-streets dirt:<lb/> In what a state for me to be,<lb/> From this Town-life gaiety!<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac022"/> <lb/> Come girls here, come all I know,<lb/> Playmates mine, advise me, shew<lb/> In this plight that I'm come to,<lb/> What is best for me to do?<lb/> And restore my gown again?<lb/> <lb/> Is to wash it out I try-<lb/> Washing shrinks the cloth when dry;<lb/> Makes the colour often fade,<lb/> Or else gives a darker shade:<lb/> If I cut it out, there'll be<lb/> Such a hole that all must see:<lb/> If I rub it hard, 'twill take<lb/> All the nap off then, and make<lb/> Yet more plain, the stain that ne'er<lb/> Honest maiden's dress should bear.<lb/> Pray then tell me some of you,<lb/> What in this mishap to do?<lb/> Thus so slut-like to be stain'd,<lb/> Makes me of myself asham'd;<lb/> For wherever I may go,<lb/> People will look at me so, -<lb/> And think perhaps, -such dirt to see,<lb/> I'm not what i ought to be.<lb/> <lb/> Say, can none of you suggest,<lb/> What in such a case is best?-<lb/> No? - then this I plainly se,<lb/> You must warning take by me!<lb/> If you would not soil your gown;<lb/> Go not gadding trough the town:<lb/> In the streets who plays the flirt,<lb/> Never yet escaped some firt: -<lb/> Run not therefore East and West,<lb/> Home for girls is mucht the best.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac023"/> Maidens, wheresoe'er you go,<lb/> Walking, trav'lling to and fro;<lb/> Over land or over sea,<lb/> In whatever way it be;<lb/> In the Country or the Town,<lb/> Over meadow, dale or down,<lb/> Over hill or over moor,<lb/> In the house or out of door,<lb/> Over road or over street,<lb/> Girls, where'er you bend your feet,<lb/> Keep your Clothes and Kirtles neat.<lb/> </p> <p>A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than<lb/> silver and gold. - Proverbs xxii. 1.<lb/> Redire, cum periit, nescit pudor. - Senec. Agam.<lb/> Ego illum periisse puto, cui periit pudor.- PLAUT.<lb/> Omnia si perdas; famam servare memento;<lb/> Qua semel emissa postea nullus eris.<lb/> Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet.<lb/> Although the wound be healed it always leaves a scar.<lb/> Of schoon de wond'al is genesen,<lb/> Daer sal noch al een teyrken wesen.- Old Dutch Proverb.<lb/> Die in een quaet geruchte kommt, is half gehangen. - I bid.<lb/> Who comes to an evil repute is half hanged.<lb/> Give a dog a bad name and hang him.<lb/> Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou wert observed<lb/> by ten eyes, and pointed at by ten fingers.- CONFUCIUS.<lb/> PUT a curb upon thy desires if thou would'st not fall into some disorder.- ARISTOTLE.<lb/> IT is better to be poor, and not have been wanting in discretion, than to attain<lb/> the summit of our wishes by a loose conduct.- DIOGENES.<lb/> BE discreet in your discourse, but much more in your actions; the first evaporates,<lb/> the latter endure for ever.- PHOCYLIDES.<lb/> SHUN the society of the depraved, lest you follow their pernicious example, and lose <lb/> yourself with them.- PLATO.<lb/> Eer is teer. Honour is tender.<lb/> The finest silk will spoil the soonest.<lb/> Celle n'est pas entièrement chaste qui fait douter de sa pudicité.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac024"/> <p>BEFORE my Light was to the winds a scorne,<lb/> My body likewise subject to be torne;<lb/> Now for a safeguard I this lantere have,<lb/> So whilst I shine from wrong it doth me save;<lb/> Even as the Diamond his light forth sends,<lb/> And with his hardnesse still himselfe defends.<lb/> Honour is subject to unconstant chance,<lb/> Nor can it without envy 't selfe advance:<lb/> Vertue to honour is a brasen wall,<lb/> Guarded with which, it is not hurt at all;<lb/> And how so ever Fortun's stormes doe blow,<lb/> Yet Glory lurking thus, his light can show.<lb/> FARLIE's Emblems.</p>

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None Can Clean Their Dress From Stain, but Some Blemish Will Remain

<p>NONE CAN CLEAN THEIR DRESS FROM STAIN, BUT SOME BLEMISH WILL REMAIN</p>

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A young woman tries to remove stains from her dress

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86(NONE CAN CLEAN THEIR DRESS FROM STAIN, BUT SOME BLEMISH WILL REMAIN)

86(ON NE PEUT PAS DECROTTER SA ROBE SANS EMPORTER LE POIL)

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