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Long in joy did he flourish,

wealth and honour to increase,

Still possessing such a blessing,

that he liv’d and reign’d in peace.

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N Y M P H S O F  R R I T A 1 N.

YE Nymphs of Britain, to whose eyes.

The world admits the glorious prize,

Of beauty to be due ;

Ah ! guard it with assiduous care,

Let neither flattery insnare.

Nor wealth your hearts subdue.

Old Bromio’s rank among the Beaus.;

Young Cynthia solitary goes.

Unheaded by the fair!

Ask you then what this pref'rence gives ?

Six Flander’s mares the former drives,

The latter but a pair.

Let meaner things be bought and sold,

But beauty never truck’d for gold ;

Ye fair, your value prove !

And since the world’s a price too low.

Like Heav’n, your ecstasies bestow,

On constancy and love.

But still, ye gen’rous maids, beware,

Since hypocrites to Heav'n there are,

And to the beauteous too :

Do not too easily confide;

Let every lover well be try’d,

And well reward the true.

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Printed by J. am! M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1790

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