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Mr. Cooke's Original Poems

with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language

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EPIGRAM the Third. To the Same.

To You, while in your native Charms you shin'd,
I first the Title of my Heart resign'd;
But you, more strongly to confirm your Pow'r,
Sought Help from Art in an illfated Hour.
You the fair Cheek with Roses forc'd to vy,
And stain'd the Eyebrow with a sabler Dy.
That Moment, Phillis, thy Deceit was known,
You loss'd, by Art, what Nature made your own.