Epilogue to a Comedy acted at Bath, where the Dutchess of Ormond was present. 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 pp. 118-119. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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Epilogue to a Comedy acted at Bath , where the Dutchess of Ormond "Lady Mary Somerset married in 1685 as his second wife James Butler second Duke of Ormond. She died in November 1733." (Tucker [1992], 217) was present . Ladies , this Entertainment we have shown , Has not been rightly suited , I must own . Heroic Virtue should have been display'd , And Homage to heroic Virtue paid . Low Comedy supplies but mean Delight ; Some Heroine should have grac'd our Scenes Tonight , First Fortune's Favours , then her Frowns to feel , Unmov'd , unshaken , on her tott'ring Wheel ; With Wisdom blest by Heav'n's peculiar Care , Too great to be elated , or despair ; A lovely Form , and an excelling Mind , To all that Providence ordains , resign'd ; Rever'd by All , Delight of ev'ry Eye , Humane and humble , when exalted high ; From Princes sprung , and gloriously ally'd , At once her Sex's , and her Country's Pride ; Whose Soul , superior to all earthly State , Shines with new Lustre 'midst the Storms of Fate . Then had the Audience wept her Woes anew , And own'd the Poet was prophetic too ; Foresaw Plantagenet's imperial Race Would such a Heroine give us , in Your Grace .