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The first Book of Martial, Epigram. 58.
Imitated in English.
You ask, dear Car, what mistress I would chuse?Not one too strictly coy, nor yet too loose;
Whose unaffected character would prove
Like Delia modest, yet a friend to love;
No prudish air to damp the genial joy,
And charms enough to satisfy,—not cloy.
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