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[ No City Dame is demurer than she [a handsome barmaid] at first Greeting, nor draws in her Mouth with a Chaster Simper ; but in a little time you may be more familiar, and she'll hear a double Entendre without blushing. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen [Anne, I. 218. They should be taught the act of managing their smiles, from the contemptuous simper to the long laborious laugh. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, lxxxviii.