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So at th' approach of death the cygnet tries

To warble one note more, and finging dies.
Hail mighty Queen, whose powerful smiles alone
Command obedience and fecure the throne.
Contending parties, and Plebeian rage,

Had puzzled Loyalty for half an age:

Conqu❜ring our hearts you end the long difpute;
All who have eyes confefs you abfolute;

To Tory doctrines even Whigs refign,

And in your perfon own the right divine.
Thus fung the Muse, in her last moments fir'd
With CAROLINA's praife, and then expir'd.

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ADVICE to a Lady in AUTUMN.

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SSES milk, half a pint, take at feven, or before;

Then fleep for an hour or two, and no more. At nine stretch your arms, and oh! think when alone, There's no pleafure in bed.-MARY, bring me my gown: Slip on that ere you rife; let your caution be fuch Keepall cold from your breaft, there's already too much;

Your pinners fet right, your twitcher ty'd on,
Your prayers at an end, and your breakfast quite done;
Retire to fome author, improving and gay,

And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day.
At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year,
The fun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear:
But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time;
Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.
Return not in hafte, nor of dreffing take heed;
For beauty, like yours, no affiftance can need.
With an appetite, thus, down to dinner you fit,
Where the chief of the feaft is the flow of your wit:
Let this be indulg'd, and let laughter go round;
As it pleases your mind, to your health 'twill redound.
After dinner two glaffes at least, I approve;
Name the first to the king, and the last to your love :
Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay,
And calm with your joys gently glide thro' the day.
The dews of the evening most carefully fhun 3.
Those tears of the sky for the lofs of the fun.
Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song,
Let the night, like the day, pafs with pleasure along.
All cares, but of love, banish far from your mind;
And those you may end, when you please to be kind.

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On a LADY's drinking the BATH Waters.

HE gufhing ftreams impetuous flow,

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In hafte to DELIA's lips to go,

With equal hafte and equal heat,
Who would not rush those lips to meet?
Bless'd envy'd streams, still greater bliss
Attends your warm and liquid kiss.
For from her lips your welcome tide
Shall down her heaving bofom glide;
There fill each swelling globe of love,

And touch that heart I ne'er could move.
From hence in foft meanders ftray,

And find at laft the blissful way

Which thought may paint, tho' verfe mayn't say.

Too happy rival dwell not there.

To rack my heart with jealous care,
But quit the bleft abode, though loth,
And quickly paffing, eafe us both.

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To live's to love, to blefs, be bleft

With mutual inclination;

Share then my ardour in your breast,
And kindly meet my paffion..

But if thus blefs'd I may not live,

And pity you deny,

To me at least your Sherlock give,

'Tis I must learn to die.

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HEN Fanny blooming fair

First caught my ravish'd fight,

Struck with her shape and air,

I felt a strange delight:

Whilft eagerly I gaz'd,

Admiring every part,

And

every feature prais'd,

She stole into my heart.

In her bewitching eyes

Ten thousand loves appear;

There Cupid bafking lies,

His fhafts are hoarded there;

Her blooming cheeks are dy'd

With colour all their own, Excelling far the pride

Of roses newly blown.

Her

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