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The PEROQUETTE.

An ; ''occasion'd by the seeing a very beautiful one, belonging to the Right Honourable the Earl of Leicester; with a small Remark upon his Lordship's fine Seat at'' Penshurst.

WELL mayst thou prate with mirthful Cheer, And pick thy plumy green, Who in delightful Penshurst here, Art seated like a Queen.

Thou call'st upon a Widow oft, Tho' few of them are known; With Look so sweet, and Touch so soft, Dear Creature, as thy own.

Thus too in Groves, and Gardens fair, Of Old, the Sylvan Gods, Perfum'd with Breeze of fragrant Air, Contriv'd Divine Abodes.

Others, sic siti, may express, Possess'd with Fancy vain, Thou, only in thy Bower of Bliss, That Phrase canst well maintain.