Deformity: an essay / By William Hay.

  • William Hay
Date:
1754
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Credit: Deformity: an essay / By William Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When I am in a Coach with a Fair Lady, I am hid by Silk and Whalebone. When I fit next her at Table, my Arm h> fo pinioned, I can neither help her nor rnyfelf. We are deprived of the Pleafure of feeing each other: and {he would fcarce know I was there, if Ihe did not fome- limes hear me under her Wing. I am in Purgatory on the Confines of Paradife. I therefore beg one Favour, and which ihe may grant with Honour; that (fince I defpair of fupplanting her * Lap-dog) {he will allow me a Cuihion to raife me above fiich Misfortunes. N. B. Many Ladies fay, that Shock is as ugly a Cur as snyftif, and unworthy of his Poft. But nothing fo dif- refpefiful fhall ever efcape me; left it would offend, or he thought the Envy of a Rival. P I N I S.