"Little Master is kept in the Nursery 'till he is five or six
years old, at least, after which he is sent to a Girl's School,
to learn Dancing and reading,...and the Child is of a tender
Constitution: well may it be so, when the Tone of his Stomach
has been spoil'd with Tea, when his Blood is curdled with now
and then a Dram, to keep the Mother in Countenance; when the
Boy's Constitution is half torn to pieces with Apothecary's
slip slops....
Besides, his whole Animal Fabrick is enervated for want of due
Exercise; and he is grown so chilly by over nursing, that he
gets Cold with the least Breath of Wind....For at the Mistress's
School, he was brought up in all respects like a Girl,...
for his Mamma had charged him not to play with rude Boys, for
fear of spoiling his Cloathes; so that hitherto our young
Gentleman has amused himself with Dolls, assisted at mock
Christenings, Visits, and other girlish Employments, inviting
and being invited to drink Tea with this or that School-fellow."
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