[_two rules_]/ / #AN/ #AMORIST/ / I²s an Artificer, or Maker of Love, a
ſworn/ Servant to all Ladies, like an Officer in a/ Corporation. Though
no one in particular/ will own any Title to him, yet he never fails,/
upon all Occaſions, to offer his Services, and/ they as ſeldom to turn
it back again untouched./ He commits nothing with them, but himſelf to/
their good Graces ; and they recommend him/ back again to his own, where
he finds ſo kind/ a Reception, that he wonders how he does/ fail of it
every where elſe. His Paſſion is as/ eaſily ſet on Fire as a Fart, and
as ſoon out/ again. He is charged and primed with Love-/ Powder like a
Gun, and the leaſt Sparkle of an/ Eye gives Fire to him, and off he
goes, but/ ſeldom, or never, hits the Mark. He has com-/ mon Places and
Precedents of Repartees and/ Letters for all Occaſions ; and falls as
readily/ into his Method of making love, as a Parſon/

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does into his Form of Matrimony. He con- verſes, as Angels are ſaid to
do, by Intuition, and expreſſes himſelf by Sighs moſt ſignificant- ly.
He follows his Viſits, as Men do their Buſineſs, and is very induſtrious
in waiting on the Ladies, where his Affairs lie ; among which thoſe of
greateſt Concernment are _Queſtions and Commands, Purpoſes,_ and other
ſuch received Forms of With and Converſation ; in which he is ſo deeply
ſtudied, that in all Queſtions and Doubts that ariſe, he is appealed to,
and very learnedly declares, which was the moſt true and primitive Way
of proceeding in the pureſt Times. For theſe Virtues he never fails of
his Summons to all Balls, where he manages the Country-Dances with
ſingular Judgment, and is frequently an Aſſiſtant at L'hombre; and theſe
are all the Uſes they make of his Parts, beſide the Sport they give
themſelves in laughing at him, which he takes for ſingular Favours, and
interprets to his own Advantage, though it never goes further; for all
his Employments being public, he is never admitted to any pri- vate
Services, and they deſpiſe him as not Wo- man's Meat: For he applies to
too many to be truſted by any one; as Baſtards by having many Fathers,
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mounted in a Coach as a Convoy, to guard the
Ladies, to take the Duſt in _Hyde-Park_; where
by his prudent Management of the Glaſs Win-
dows he ſecures them from Beggars, and re-
turns fraught with China-Oranges and Ballads.
Thus he is but a Gentleman-Uſher General,
and his Buſineſs is to carry one Lady's Services
to another, and bring back the others in Ex-
change.

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