Regency Advertisements: A Poem About Hair

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IMPROMPTU ONE day in company a shining belle To shew how far she could in wit excel Thus to a gentleman was heard to say If I mistake not Sir the other day Your hair was red and now tis chang d to black And does its flaming colour wholly lack But I suppose then archly looked around If we inspect it dyed it will be found True said the gentleman and when I saw you last Your hair methinks was of a greyish cast Besides twas lank and thin and curled not then And now but for your voice I scarce could ken In you the self same lady whose grey hair Of late had nearly driven you to despair But ATKINSON's fam d Fluid and his Dye Have work d strange wonders both in you and I The gent in triumph laugh d the lady wounded Hung down her head abash d as one confounded The above circumstance occurred a short time since and these lines were wrote by the lady allud ed to extempore on the occasion ATKINSON'S FLUID for the growth of the hair and Atkinson's DYE for changing its Colour are sold by the Proprietor James Atkinson Per and by most Perfumers and Hair dressers in Town fumer No 43 Gerard street Soho square London and Country 4 This ad appeared in the January 1818 edition of La Belle Assemblée. 

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