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II.
She aims at ev'ry trifling Heart,
Attends each Flatterer's Vows;
And like a Picture drawn with Art,
A Look on all that gaze bestows:
O! may the Pow'r, who Lovers rules,
Grant rather Scorn, than Hope with Fools!
She aims at ev'ry trifling Heart,
Attends each Flatterer's Vows;
And like a Picture drawn with Art,
A Look on all that gaze bestows:
O! may the Pow'r, who Lovers rules,
Grant rather Scorn, than Hope with Fools!
III.
Mistaken Nymph! the Crouds that gaze
Adore thee into Shame;
Unguarded Beauty is Disgrace,
And Coxcombs when they praise, defame:
O! fly such Brutes in human Shapes,
Nor like th' Ægyptians worship Apes.
Mistaken Nymph! the Crouds that gaze
Adore thee into Shame;
Unguarded Beauty is Disgrace,
And Coxcombs when they praise, defame:
O! fly such Brutes in human Shapes,
Nor like th' Ægyptians worship Apes.
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