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EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG.
To courts accustom'd yet to cringe asham'd,Of person lovely, as in life unblam'd;
Skill'd in those gentle and prevailing arts,
Which lead directly to soft female hearts;
A kind partaker of the quiet hour,
Friend of the parlour, partner of the bow'r,
In health, in sickness, ever faithful found,
Yet, by no ties, but ties of kindness bound,
Of instinct, nature, reason, what you will,
For to all duties he was constant still;
Such was the being underneath this shrine;
Study the character, and make it Thine.
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