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Rh Were all the curtains drawn, you ’d find Not one, perhaps, but who is kind.
 * Minerva, naked from above,

With Venus and the wise of Jove, Expoſing ev’ry beauty bare, Deſcended to the Trojan heir; Yet this was ſhe whom poets name Goddeſs of Chaſtity and Fame.
 * Penelope, her lord away,

Gave am‘’rous audiences all day; Now round the bowl the ſuitors ſit, With wine provoking mirth and wit; Then down they take the ſtubborn bow; Their ſtrength, it ſeems, ſhe needs muſt know: Thus twenty cheerful winters paſt; She ’s yet immortaliz’d for chaſte.
 * Smile, Mira! then; reward my flame,

And be as much ſecure of fame: By all thoſe matchleſs beauties fir’d, By my own matchleſs love inſpir’d, So will I ſing, ſuch wonders write, That, when th’ aſtoniſh’d world ſhall cite A nymph of ſpotleſs worth and fame, Mira ſhall be th’ immortal name.