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 Ingratitude appear'd then base, but virtue more engaging.

Then now since happily I've hit, I'll have no more delaying; Let beauty yield to manly wit, We lose ourselves in staying: I'll haste dull courtship to a close, Since marriage can my fears oppose, Why should we happy minutes lose, Since, Peggy, I must love thee.

Men may be foolish, if they please, and deem't a lover's duty, To sight, and sacrifice their case, doating on a proud beauty: Such was my case for many a year, Still hope succeeding to my fear, False Betty's charms now disappear, Since Peggy's far outshine them.

FINIS.