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The works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift
The works of the Reverend Dr Jonathan Swift Author:Jonathan Swift Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for Forbearance from Tenants., Renew Leafes, and get by them, and fell Woods. Lend my Lord his own Money. (Gilblas faid much of this, to whom I refer.) CHAP. ... more »VII. Directions to the PORTER. IF your Mafter be a Minifter of State, let him be at Home to none but his Pimp, or Chief Flatterer, or one of his Penfionary Writers, or his hired Spy and Informer, or his Printer in ordinary, or his City-follicitor, or a Land-jobber, or his Inventor of new Funds, or a Stock-jobber, CHAP. VIII. Directions to the CHAMBER-MAID. THE Nature of your Employment differ- eth according to the Quality, the Pride, or the Wealth, of the Lady you ferve ; and this Treatife is to be applied to all Sorts of Families ; fo, that I find myfelf under great Difficulty to adjuft the Bufinefs for which you are hired. In a Family, where there is a tolerable Eftate, you differ from the Houfe-maid; and, in that View, I give my Directions. Your G 4 particular particular Province is your Lady's Chamber, where you make the Bed, and put Things in Order; and, if you live in the Country, you take Care of Rooms where Ladies lie who come into the Houfe, which bringeth in all the Vails that fall to your Share. Your ufual Lover, as I take it, is the Coachman ; but, if you are under twenty, and tolerably handfome, perhaps, a Footman may caft his Eyes on you. Get your favourite Footman to help you in making your Lady's Bed ; and, if you ferve a young Couple, the Footman and you, as you are turning up the Bed-cloaths, will make thei prettieft Obfervations in the World; which, whifpered about, will be very entertaining to the whole Family, and get among the Neighbourhood. Do not carry down the neceflary Veflels for the Fellows to fee, but empty them out of the Window, for your Lady's Credit: It is highly ...« less