An Apology written for my Son to his Master, who had commanded him to write Verses on the Death of the late Lord —. Mary Barber 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. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 p. 50. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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An Apology written for my Son to his Master , who had commanded him to write Verses on the Death of the late Lord — . I beg your Scholar you'll excuse , Who dares no more debase the Muse . My Mother says , If e'er she hears , I write again on worthless Peers , Whether they're living Lords , or dead , She'll box the Muse from out my Head . Sir , let me have no more , she cry'd , Of Panegyricks , ill apply'd : For Praise , ill-plac'd , adds no more Grace , Than Jewels to Samantha's Face ; Whose Lustre serves to let us see Both Folly , and Deformity .