MARY MASTERS

MARY MASTERSc. 1733

c. 1733

Search but those strains, you think so much excel,Scan ev’ry verse, and try the numbers well:You’ll plainly see, in almost ev’ry line,Distinguishing defects to prove them mine.

Search but those strains, you think so much excel,Scan ev’ry verse, and try the numbers well:You’ll plainly see, in almost ev’ry line,Distinguishing defects to prove them mine.

Search but those strains, you think so much excel,Scan ev’ry verse, and try the numbers well:You’ll plainly see, in almost ev’ry line,Distinguishing defects to prove them mine.

Search but those strains, you think so much excel,

Scan ev’ry verse, and try the numbers well:

You’ll plainly see, in almost ev’ry line,

Distinguishing defects to prove them mine.

My songs th’ attentive nymphs with pleasure hear,Because in me no rival charms they fear.My shape erroneous, and my stature lowCan to the eye no dang’rous beauty show.The list’ning youths who at a distance hear,Secure of freedom, may approach more near.All I can boast, is this one single grant,Just sense enough to know how much I want.

My songs th’ attentive nymphs with pleasure hear,Because in me no rival charms they fear.My shape erroneous, and my stature lowCan to the eye no dang’rous beauty show.The list’ning youths who at a distance hear,Secure of freedom, may approach more near.All I can boast, is this one single grant,Just sense enough to know how much I want.

My songs th’ attentive nymphs with pleasure hear,Because in me no rival charms they fear.My shape erroneous, and my stature lowCan to the eye no dang’rous beauty show.The list’ning youths who at a distance hear,Secure of freedom, may approach more near.All I can boast, is this one single grant,Just sense enough to know how much I want.

My songs th’ attentive nymphs with pleasure hear,

Because in me no rival charms they fear.

My shape erroneous, and my stature low

Can to the eye no dang’rous beauty show.

The list’ning youths who at a distance hear,

Secure of freedom, may approach more near.

All I can boast, is this one single grant,

Just sense enough to know how much I want.


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