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The Wish.

1 WOuld but indulgent Fortune send
2 To me a kind, and faithful Friend,
3 One who to Virtue's Laws is true,
4 And does her nicest Rules pursue;
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5 One Pious, Lib'ral, Just and Brave,
6 And to his Passions not a Slave;
7 Who full of Honour, void of Pride,
8 Will freely praise, and freely chide;
9 But not indulge the smallest Fault,
10 Nor entertain one slighting Thought:
11 Who still the same will ever prove,
12 Will still instruct, and still will love:
13 In whom I safely may confide,
14 And with him all my Cares divide:
15 Who has a large capacious Mind,
16 Join'd with a Knowledge unconfin'd:
17 A Reason bright, a Judgment true,
18 A Wit both quick, and solid too:
19 Who can of all things talk with Ease,
20 And whose Converse will ever please:
21 Who charm'd with Wit, and inward Graces,
22 Despises Fools with tempting Faces;
23 And still a beauteous Mind does prize
24 Above the most enchanting Eyes:
25 I would not envy Queens their State,
26 Nor once desire a happier Fate.

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Title (in Source Edition): The Wish.
Author: Lady Mary Chudleigh
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Chudleigh, Mary Lee, 1656-1710. Poems on several occasions. Together with the Song of the three children paraphras'd. By the Lady Chudleigh. London: Printed by W.B. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703, pp. 32-33. [16],125,[17],73,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T97275) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 j.452].)

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