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103. Womens Titles of Honour.
Let an Earl take to wife, a Countrey Girl;She is a Countess; because He, an Earl.
But let a Countess marry meanly; She,
Adds not one Atom, of Gentilitie.
So Phœbus gilds, the Lady of the night;
But scorns to vapour, in a Borrow'd Light.
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