COME with your silks and your satins,
Come with your laces and curls;
Come with your coiffures and patterns,
Charming and innocent girls.
Lead the attack with your faces,
Follow it up with mamma;
Sweeten your infantile graces
With the bank-notes of papa.
Dress in the height of the fashion;
Talk us the smallest of talk;
Speak of a flirt with great passion;
Lean on our arm when we walk.
Tell us of love in a cottage,
Dress you like queens while ye do;
Warble of breakfasts on pottage,
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