Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1769.05.12

NHG-P.769.018
12 May 1769:41 (657)
Of all the ages ever known,
The present is the oddest;
For all the men are honest grown,
And all the women modest.
Fashions which are the beau's sole guide,
Are justly now exploded,
And to be frugal we take pride;
So poverty's excluded.
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