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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

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[Fame of Dorinda's Conquests brought]

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Fame of Dorinda's Conquests brought
The God of Love her Charms to view;
To wound th'unwary Maid he thought,
But soon became her Conquest too.

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He dropp'd half drawn his feeble Bow,
He look'd, he rav'd, and sighing pin'd;
And wish'd in vain he had been now,
As Painters falslly draw him blind.

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Disarm'd, he to his Mother flies;
Help, Venus, help thy wretched Son!
Who now will pay Us Sacrifice?
For Love Himself's, alas! undone.

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To Cupid now no Lover's Pray'r
Shall be address'd in suppliant Sighs;
My Darts are gone, but oh beware,
Fond Mortals, of Dorinda's Eyes.