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If fond Narciffus in the Chrystal Flood,

A Form like thine, O lovely Infant, view'd, Well wight the Flames the pining Youth destroy; Excess of Beauty justify'd the Boy.

On the Marriage of an Old Maid.

By R. F.

HLOE, a Coquet in her Prime,

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The vainest fickleft Thing alive; Behold the strange Effects of Time! Marries and doats at forty five,

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Thus Weathercocks, who for a while Have turn'd about with every Blaft,

Grown old and deftitute of Oil,

Rust to a Point, and fix at last.

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Charlettus Percivallo fuo.

'ORA dum nondum fonuit fecunda,

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Nec puer nigras tepefecit undas,

Acer ad notos calamus labores

Sponte recurrit.

Quid priùs noftris potiùfve chartis
Illinam? Cuinam vigil ante noctem

Sole depulfam redeunte Scriptor
Mitto falutem?

Tu meis chartis, bone Percivalle,
Unicè dignus; tibi pectus implet
Non minor noftro novitatis ardor;

Tu quoque Scriptor.

Detulit rumor (mihi multa defert
Rumor) in fylvis modo te dediffe

Furibus

Percivallus Charletto fuo.

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Ualis ambabus capiendus ulnis

Limen attingit tibi gratus hofpes, i Quum facras primum fubit aut relinquit

Ifidis arces,

Qualis exultat tibi pars mamillæ
Læva, quùm cantu propriore ftrident
Miffiles, & jam moneant adeffe

Cornua, chartas,

Tale per noftrum jecur & medullas

Gaudium fluxit, fimul ac reclufis

Vinculis vidi benè litterati

Nomen amici.

Obvios fures, uti fama verax

Rettulit, fenfi pavidus tremensque;

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Furibus prædam, mediumque belli im

pune ftetiffe.

Saucius num vivit adhuc Caballus

Anne? Ierneis potiora Gazis,

An, tua vitâ Tibi chariora,

Scripta fuperfunt?

Cui legis noftras, relegifque chartas?
Cui meam laudas generofitatem?

Quem meis verbis, mea nefcientem,

Mane falutas?

Scribe Securus, quid agit Senatus,

Quid caput ftertit grave Lambethanum, viq ol Quid Comes Guildford, quid habent novorum:

Dawksque Dyerque.cr7

Me meus, quondam tuus, e popinis

Jenny jam vifit, lacrimanfque narrat,

Dum molit fucos, fubito peremptum?

Funere Rixon.

Narrat

Sed fui, fumque, excipias timorem,
Cætera fofpes.

Scire fi fylvam cupias periclim.
Confciam, & triftes nemoris tenebras,

Confulas lentè tabulas parantėm

Te duce Colum.

Flebilis legi miseranda docti

Fata pictoris, fed & hôc iniqua

Damna confolor, fupereft perempto

Rixone Wildgoofe.

Quæ tamen mitram mulier labantem

Fulciet? munus vetulæ parentis,

Anna præftabit, nifi fors' Ierni

Hofpita Cygni.·

Lætus accepi celeres vigere

Pricketi plantas, fimùl ambulanti

Plaudo Sherwino, pueroque Davo

Mitto falutem.

Jenny,

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