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7

PARODY

ON DR. JOHNSON'S “HERMIT HOAR, &c.”

Gentle Lady, on whose cheek
“Modesty's soft blushes play;
“Tell, O tell me where to seek
“Virtue, and her blissful way.
Thus I said, and mournful sigh'd
As I curs'd beguiling sin;
When the gentle lady cried,
“Come and treat us with some gin!”
 

This is a species of writing imitated from the Italian, the last line of which is made to differ from the foregoing, and produce some ludicrous point from a seemingly grave subject.