WHAT! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage,
And save from infamy my sinking age!
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Good people all, with one accord
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word,—
From those who spoke her praise.
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THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings,
A treasury for lost and missing things;
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HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;
I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.
My pride forbids it ever should be said,
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But where to find that happiest spot below
Who can direct, when all pretend to know?
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'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,
'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.
Then enter' MISS CATLEY,
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WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,
Invites each passing stranger that can pay;
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WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
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LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd
As rational, the human kind;
Reason, they say, belongs to man,
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IN all my Enna's beauties blest,
Amidst profusion still I pine;
For though she gives me up her breast,
Its panting tenant is not mine.
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