To ARTEMISIA. Dr. KING's Invitation to BELLVILL: Imitated. Mary Leapor 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. T127827 p. 413 K101776.000 Leapor, Mrs. (Mary), 1722-1746. Poems upon several occasions: By Mrs. Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire. London printed: and sold by J. Roberts 1748 pp. 106-108. 15,[5],282p. ; 8⁰.

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To ARTEMISIA . Dr. KING's Invitation to BELLVILL : Imitated . IF Artemisia's Soul can dwell Four Hours in a tiny Cell , ( To give that Space of Bliss to me ) I wait my Happiness at three . Our Tommy in a Jug shall bring Clear Nectar from the bubbling Spring : The Cups shall on the Table stand , The Sugar and the Spoons at hand : A skilful Hand shall likewise spread Soft Butter on the yielding Bread ; And ( as you eat but mighty little , And seem an arrant Foe to Vittle ) You'll cry perhaps , One Bit may do , But I'm resolv'd it shall be two : With you and your Amanda blest , Care flies away from Mira's Breast ; O'er stubborn Flax no more I grieve , But stick the Needle on my Sleeve : For let them work on Holiday , Who won't be idle when they may : If I must fret and labour too , Like Caricus and Lumberloo ; As well I might , like Simoneer , Be plagu'd with sixty Pounds a Year . What Nymph , that's eloquent and gay , But owes it chiefly to her Tea ? With Satire that supplies our Tongues , And greatly helps the failing Lungs . By that assisted we can spy A Fault with microscopick Eye ; Dissect a Prude with wond'rous Art , And read the Care of Delia's Heart . Now to the Company we fall , 'Tis Me and Mira that is all : More wou'd you have — Dear Madam , then Count me and Mira o'er agen .