ON THE D—SS OF R—D. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T116245 1137 K093079.004 Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London printed for G. Pearch 1770 pp. 58-59. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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ON THE D—SS OF R—D. BY THE SAME . WHAT do scholars , and bards , and astronomers wise , Mean by stuffing our heads with nonsense and lies ; By telling us Venus must always appear In a car , or a shell , or a twinkling star ; Drawn by sparrows , or swans , or dolphins , or doves , Attended in form by the graces and loves : That ambrosia and nectar is all she will taste , And her passport to hearts on a belt round her waist ? Without all this bustle I saw the bright dame , To supper last night to P—y's she came In a good warm sedan ; no fine open car ; Two chairmen her doves , and a flambeau her star ; No nectar she drank , no ambrosia she eat ; Her cup was plain claret , a chicken her meat : Nor wanted a cestus her bosom to grace , For R—d , that night , had lent her her face .