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The Works of Hildebrand Jacob

... Containing Poems on Various Subjects, and Occasions; With the Fatal Constancy, a Tragedy; and Several Pieces in Prose. The Greatest Part Never Before Publish'd
Jacob, Hildebrand (1693-1739)
  
[dedication]

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EPIGRAM XXIII.

Detested Plague of human Race,
Who Nature's fairest Works deface,
And your malicious Rage disclose
On Strephon's Shins, or Phœbe's Nose!
To visit my inconstant Fair,
In pity to her Youth forbear;
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Tho' thrice five Years she cannot count,
To five Times three her Lovers mount.
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