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1st Gent. What woman should be? Sir, consult the taste
Of marriageable men. This planet's store / In iron, cotton, wool, or chemicals -- / All matter rendered to our plastic skill, / Is wrought in shapes responsive to demand; / The market's pulse makes index high or low, / By rule sublime. Our daughters must be wives, / And to the wives must be what men will choose; / Men's taste is woman's test. You mark the phrase? / 'Tis good, I think? -- the sense well-winged and poised / With t's and s's. 2nd Gent.