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128  Then in a vizard, to avoid grimace, Allows all freedom but to ſee the face. In pulpits and at bar ſhe wears a gown, In camps a ſword, in palaces a crown. Reſolv’d to combat with this motley beaſt, Our poet comes to ſtrike one ſtroke at leaſt.
 * His glaſs he means not for this jilt or beau,

Some features of you all he means to ſhow; On choſen heads nor lets the thunder fall, But ſcatters his artillery—at all.
 * Yet to the fair he fain would quarter ſhow;

His tender heart recoils at ev’ry blow: If unawares he gives too ſmart a ſtroke, He means but to correct, and not provoke. by obſervation find it true ’T is harder much to pleaſe themſelves than you: To weave a plot, to work and to refine A labour’d ſcene, to poliſh ev’ry line, Judgment muſt ſweat, and feel a mother’s pains. Vain Fools! thus to diſturb and rack their brains, When, more indulgent to the writer’s eaſe, You are too good to be ſo hard to pleaſe: No ſuch convulſive pangs it will require To write the pretty things which you admire.