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EPIGRAM X.

1 WHILE Lucy, chaste as mountain snows,
2 Gives every idle fop a hearing;
3 In Mary's breast a passion glows,
4 Which stronger is from not appearing.
5 Say, who has chose the better part!
6 Mary to whom no joy is missing;
7 Or she, who dupe to her own heart,
8 Pays the full price of Mary's kissing.

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Title (in Source Edition): EPIGRAM X.
Themes: sex; relations between the sexes; women; female character
Genres: epigram
References: DMI 22447

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 237. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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