Your late kind Gift let me restore;
For I must never wear it more.
My Mother cries, ''What's here to do?
''A Crimson Velvet Cap for you!
''If to these Heights so soon you climb,
''You'll wear a Coachman's Cap in time:
''Perhaps on Palfry pace along,
''With ruffled Shirt, and Tete--Moutton;
''Banish the Woman from your Face,
''And let the Rake supply the Place;
''Delighted see the People stare,
''And ask each other what you are?

If she goes on to this dull Tune,
Poor I must be a Quaker soon.
She'll scarcely let me wear a Knot;
But keeps me like a Hottentot;
Says, Dressing plain, at small Expence,
Shews better Taste, and better Sense.
I'd take her Judgment, I confess,
Sooner in any Thing, than Dress;
A Science, which she little knows,
Who only huddles on her Cloaths.

This Day, to please my Brother Con.
She let me put your Present on;
And when she saw me very glad,
Cry'd out, She looks like one that's mad!
''Know, Girl, (says she) that Affectation
''Suits only those in higher Station;
''Who plead Prescription for their Rule,
''Whene'er they please to play the Fool:
''But that it best becomes us Cits,
''To dress like People in their Wits.''