THE SEASON.

draped discreetly in a skirt and vest, Which just withhold the secrets they suggest"

A SATIRE.

BY

ALFRED AUSTIN.

WITH FRONTISPIECE OF THE MODERN MUSE," BY

THOMAS GEORGE COOPER.

Slender.-Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i' th' Town?

Anne Page.-I think there are, Sir! I heard them talked of.

Slender. I love the sport well;
cried and shrieked at it, that it passed.

but the women have so

Merry Wives of Windsor.

LONDON:

ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.

1861.