In Answer to Consolatory Verses wrote by a Friend. Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay) 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. T139692 K110146.000 Lennox, Charlotte, ca. 1729-1804. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Young Lady. London printed for, and sold by S. Paterson 1747 p. 85. [8],88p.; 8⁰.

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In Answer to Consolatory Verses wrote by a Friend . WITH Ease Advice to virtuous Woe we give , But ah ! how few by Stoick Rules can live ? Virtue distrest in melting Verse appears ; Beauteous in Misery , and adorn'd in Tears . But in the World 'tis view'd with other Eyes ; Virtue in Rags is Beauty in Disguise ; And can no more Contempt and Scorn disarm , Then a fair Face behind a Masque can charm . Whatever Gifts we may to Nature owe , Success is all our Merit here below . By Fortune favour'd Fools may rise to Fame ; Without it Virtue is an empty Name .