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ACROSTICH.
[Vain Girl, thy Muse to be more Modest teach]
Vain Girl, thy Muse to be more Modest teach;
Endeavour not at things above thy Reach:
No common Pen for this great Task is fit,
It asks great Dryden's, or sweet Cowley's Wit:
T'express the Beauteous wonders of your Face,
Inimitable Colours, Features, Grace,
Angelick Sweetness, and a charming State,
Endeavour not at things above thy Reach:
No common Pen for this great Task is fit,
It asks great Dryden's, or sweet Cowley's Wit:
T'express the Beauteous wonders of your Face,
Inimitable Colours, Features, Grace,
Angelick Sweetness, and a charming State,
Compounded sweetly, on each Look doth wait:
Oh, if my Fancy cou'd but reach your Worth,
Or find fit Epithets to set it forth,
Kings then to thy fair Eyes shou'd Homage pay,
Expressing Thee more like the Gods than They.
Oh, if my Fancy cou'd but reach your Worth,
Or find fit Epithets to set it forth,
Kings then to thy fair Eyes shou'd Homage pay,
Expressing Thee more like the Gods than They.
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