XLVI.

Now whether it be thus, or that they are stricter,

As better knowing why they should be so,

I think you'll find from many a family picture,

That daughters of such mothers as may know

The World by experience rather than by lecture,

Turn out much better for the Smithfield Show

Of vestals brought into the marriage mart,

Than those bred up by prudes without a heart.

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