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NHG-P.764.010
3 Feb 1764:32 (383)
Mr. Fowle, Please to print the following lines, as they shew
the poetical genius of Mr. William Scott, a shoemaker in
Boston wrote with his own hand.
Men love women with lips quite bare,
Who on their chins have got no hair
Why beard on man should they despie,
Pray why not comely in their eyes?
If God seems fit to plant it there,
It must be equal to the fair.
The ladies they may well suppose
A beard is sweet as any rose,
Because it's put so near the nose.
One reason more why beard is sweet,
Is it grows close by where we eat.
It must be so as it is plac'd,
All round the mouth the seat of taste;
For who alive presumes to tell
That God offends both taste and smell.
Psalms one hundred and thirty-third,
There you may find that precious word,
Inspir'd King David has compar'd,
Union to ointment on a beard.
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Mr. Scott has his picture drawn by Mr. Badget, under which
is the following lines, composed by himself.
If women's chins are made both smooth and fair,
And on man's is fix't a beard of hair,
Pray why the same should they not wear?
Upon which several young ladies desire you'll print their
attempts to rival the bard.
Sophia's face is smooth and fair,
On Scott's is awful beard of hair,
She screams and says it shant be there.
[signed] Clarissa Peep.
A woman's face is smooth and fair,
On man's is plac'd a beard of hair,
But women love to feel it there.
[signed] Arabella Tickle.
The women now are out of shoes,
And sorely they complain,
They view Scott's face and gratify
A curious taste though vain.
[signed] Ann Sober.
The women being out of shoes,
to Scott they run for more;
They view his beard, and then return
saying, he's now fourscore.
[signed] Betty Simper.
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