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XXII

[Madam, for your Commands to stay]

Madam, for your Commands to stay,
Is the mean Duty of a Wretch,
Whose Service you with Wages pay;
Lovers should at occasion catch,
Not idly wait till it be brought,
But with the Deed o're take your Thought;
Honour and Love let them give o're,
Who do their Duty, and no more.