The compleat French-master for ladies and gentlemen being a new method, to learn with ease and delight the French tongue, as it is now spoken in the court of France, in three parts, I. A short and plain grammar, II. A vocabulary, familiar dialogues, the niceties of the French tongue, and twelve discourses ... III. Four collections ...

Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.

dialogues 2

Familiar Dia∣logues, French and English.

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WHo waits?

Did your Ladyship call Madam.

Bring me my Hood• and Tip∣pet.

Let me see; hold the Glass Lord! I look wretchedly to day.

Why don't you help me?

How awkward you are!

How can I help it?

Page 230 Is not my Head wry?

No Madam, it sits very well.

Give me a clean handkerchief.

Go now to the Foot-man and bid him get a chair with a high roof, or a very low seat.

I run.

Stay Mistress sue, you are so ready to go the Footman.—

What will you be pleased to have, Madam.

Go first, and see whether my Sister be ready, and if she be wil∣ling to go to the Princess with me.

Well, what says she?

She is gone out already.

Truly that's very handsome, to disappoint me so.

Did she not send me word, that she would not go out before five a clock.

Yes, Madam.

What a clock is it then now?

'Tis hardly Five.

Bid the Footman call for a Chair.

Madam, there is below.—

Is there a Chair?

No, Madam, there is Master L.—to wait upon your La∣dyship.

Did they tell him I was at home?

I believe, yes.

Page 231 Then I can't go out; take all that again.

How do I look?

Very well

You may tell Master L— that I am ready to receive him.

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