To the Memory of an agreeable LADY bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her. William Shenstone 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. T131163 K104099.006 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. VI. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 216. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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To the Memory of an agreeable LADY bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her . 'TWAS always held , and ever will , By sage mankind , discreeter T' anticipate a lesser ill Than undergo a greater , When mortals dread diseases , pain , And languishing conditions ; Who don't the lesser ills sustain Of physic and physicians ? Rather than lose his whole estate , He that but little wise is , Full gladly pays four parts in eight To taxes and excises . With numerous ills in single life The batchelor's attended ; Such to avoid , he takes a wife — And much the case is mended . Poor Gratia , in her twentieth year , Foreseeing future woe , Chose to attend a monkey here , Before an ape below .