Part 2 — A MAIDEN'S IDEAL OF A HUSBAND
Reading edition
From "The Contrivances"
Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage, Noble by heritage, Generous and free: Brave, not romantic; Learned, not pedantic; Frolic, not frantic; This must he be.
Honor maintaining, Meanness disdaining, Still entertaining, Engaging and new. Neat, but not finical; Sage, but not cynical; Never tyrannical, But ever true.
Henry Carey [?—1743]