Part 2 — A PORTRAIT FROM THE LIFE
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Come sit by my side, while this picture I draw: In chattering a magpie, in pride a jackdaw; A temper the devil himself could not bridle; Impertinent mixture of busy and idle; As rude as a bear, no mule half so crabbed; She swills like a sow, and she breeds like a rabbit; A housewife in bed, at table a slattern; For all an example, for no one a pattern. Now tell me, friend Thomas,[1] Ford,[2] Grattan,[3] and Merry Dan,[4] Has this any likeness to good Madam Sheridan? [Footnote 1: Dr. Thos. Sheridan.] [Footnote 2: Chas. Ford, of Woodpark, Esq.] [Footnote 3: Rev. John Grattan.] [Footnote 4: Rev. Daniel Jackson.]