The Disappointment, illustration from 'Fashionable Bores or Coolers in High Life' by Peter Quiz, pub....

To the man of gallantry (and who that is anything is not so) the Masquerade opens a wide field for action where however your must expect to meet with coolers; should you chose the personation of the love-sick Romeo, and fancy you have discovered a Juliet, how will you conceal you chagrin after having poured out the impassioned strains of persuasive love to induce your fair one to unmask that you may behold her lovely face to find on her complying, that it is made by "one of natures journeymen!" to extricate yourself from such a bore will require your best generalship.