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The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

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MRS. BINDON'S ANSWER.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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MRS. BINDON'S ANSWER.

WHEN home I return'd from the dancing last night,
And, elate by your praises, attempted to write,
I familiarly call'd on Apollo for aid,
And told him how many fine things you had said.
He smil'd at my folly, and gave me to know,
Your wit, and not mine, by your writings you show;
“And then,” says the God, “still to make you more vain,
“He hath promis'd that I shall enlighten your brain;
“When he knows in his heart, if he speak but his mind,
“That no woman alive can now boast I am kind:

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“Forsince Daphne to shun me grew into a laurel,
“With the sex I have sworn still to keep up the quarrel.”
I thought it a joke, 'till by writing to you,
I have prov'd his resentment, alas! but too true.