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The posthumous works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in prose and verse

To which is added, a collection of essays, prose and poetical
Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783)

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On a great COXCOMB recovering from an Indisposition.

Narcissus (as Ovid informs us) expir'd,
Consum'd by the flames his own beauty had fir'd;
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But N—o (who like him is charm'd with his face,
And sighs for his other fair-self in the glass)
Loves to greater excess than Narcissus—for why?
He loves himself too much to let himself die.
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