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 was singing? and, in the verses of Chloe weeping and reproaching him for his inconstancy, where he says—

If Prior read Horace, did not Thomas Moore study Prior? Love and pleasure find singers in all days. Roses are always blowing and fading—to-day as in that pretty time when Prior sang of them, and of Chloe lamenting their decay—