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May Fair

In four cantos [by George Croly]
  

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Now to the Marchioness I drive:
I find her rising—just alive;
Exhausted by the last night's rout—
The spirits in her lamp burnt out;

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Upon her visage I inspect
Three balls, two suppers “most select.”
The shaking of her hand of snow
Still seems to meditate the throw:
I read upon her dazzling forehead
The very last rouleau she borrow'd.