Young ladies, I hope you'll attend to my moral,
When you hear it, I'm sure you and I shall not quarrel:
If you're pretty, fine dress is not needed to show it;
If you're ugly, fine dress will make all the world know it.
Young men, if you wish, as I trust you all do,
A partner for worse or for better to woo,
Don't marry a _peacock_ dressed out in gay feathers,
But a _wife_ guaranteed to wear well in all weathers.