. Thackerayana;. quality were in the habit ofcutting up their cast gowns to strengthen their stiffening, insteadof bestowing them as perquisites or in charity, detennined him toseize the petticoat as a forfeiture, to be sent as a present to awidow gentlewoman, who had five daughters, to be made intopetticoats for each, the remainder to be returned to be cut up intostomachers and caps, facings for waistcoat sleeves, and other gar-niture. He thus concludes : I consider woman as a beautiful,romantic animal, that may be adorned with furs and feathers, pearls and diamonds, ores andsilks. The lynx s
. Thackerayana;. quality were in the habit ofcutting up their cast gowns to strengthen their stiffening, insteadof bestowing them as perquisites or in charity, detennined him toseize the petticoat as a forfeiture, to be sent as a present to awidow gentlewoman, who had five daughters, to be made intopetticoats for each, the remainder to be returned to be cut up intostomachers and caps, facings for waistcoat sleeves, and other gar-niture. He thus concludes : I consider woman as a beautiful,romantic animal, that may be adorned with furs and feathers, pearls and diamonds, ores andsilks. The lynx shall cast itsskin at her feet to make her atippet; the peacock, parrot, andswan shall pay contributions toher muff; the sea shall besearched for shells, and therocks for gems ; and every partof nature furnish out its sharetowards the embellishment of acreature that is the most consummate work of it. All this I shallindulge them in; but as for the-petticoat I have been speaking of,I neither can nor will allow THE TATLER: 263 No. 145. The Tatler.—March 14,1710. Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos.— Virg. Ed. III. ! what ill eyes bewitch my tender limbs ? This paper was allotted for taking into consideration a laterequest of two indulgent parents, touching the care of a youngdaughter, whom they design to send to a boarding-school, or keepat home, according to my determination; but I am diverted fromthat subject by letters which I have received from several ladies,complaining of a certain sect of professed enemies to the reposeof the fair sex, called oglers. These are, it seems, gentlemen wholook with deep attention on one object at the playhouses, and areever staring all round them in churches. It is urged by my cor-respondents, that they do allthat is possible to keep theireyes off these insnarers; butthat, by what power theyknow not, both their diver-sions and devotions are in-terrupted by them in such amanner as that they cannotattend to either, witho
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