To the Rt. Hon. Charlotte Lady Conway, on her resolving to leave Bath. 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. 195. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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To the Rt. Hon. Charlotte Lady Conway "[The] wife of Francis Seymour, Lord Conway". (Tucker [1992], 224) , on her resolving to leave Bath . O Charlotte , truly pious , early wise ! The Pleasures sought by others , you despise : Nor Bath , nor Bath's Allurements thee detain ; Unmov'd , you quit them to the Gay and Vain . But tho' nor Health , nor Pleasure will prevail ; The Happiness you give , should turn the Scale . O stay , and teach the Virtues of thy Breast : Thousands by thy Example may be blest : A Mind so humble , and so truly great , So fitted to oblige in ev'ry State ; A Manner , so engaging and discrete , A Manner , so inimitably sweet ! These , and thy thousand Charms , who can express ? Seymour , how vast a Treasure you possess !