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Let Friendship, as she caus'd, excuse the deed;
With thee, and such as thee, she must succeed.

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But what, if Fashion tempted Pope astray?
The witch has spells, and Jervas knew a day
When mode-struck belles and beaux were proud to come,
And buy of him a thousand years of bloom.
 

Alluding to another couplet in the same Epistle

Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears,
Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years.