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He ended, you wager? Not half! A bet? Precedence to males in the alphabet! Still, disposed of Man's A B C, there 's X Y Z want assistance,--the Fair Sex! How much may be said in excuse of Those vanities--males see no use of-- From silk shoe on heel to laced poll's-hood! What 's their frailty beside our own falsehood? The boldest, most brazen of ... trumpets, How kind can they be to their dumb pets! Of their charms--how are most frank, how few venal! While as for those charges of Juvenal-- Quæ nemo dixisset in toto Nisi (ædepol) ore illoto-- He dismissed every charge with an "Apage!"