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Poems, Fables, and Plays

By Edward Moore
Moore, Edward (1712-1757)
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FABLES FOR THE LADIES.
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SONGS.
 I. 
SONG the First.
 II. 
SONG the Second.
 III. 
SONG the Third.
 IV. 
SONG the Fourth.
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SONG the Fifth.
 VI. 
SONG the Sixth.
 VII. 
SONG the Seventh.
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SONG the Eighth.
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SONG the Ninth.
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SONG the Tenth.
 XI. 
SONG the Eleventh.
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SONG the Ninth.

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You tell me I'm handsome, I know not how true,
And easy, and chatty, and good-humour'd too;
That my lips are as red as the rose-bud in June,
And my voice, like the nightingale's, sweetly in tune:
All this has been told me by twenty before,
But he that would win me, must flatter me more.

II

If beauty from virtue receive no supply,
Or prattle from prudence, how wanting am I!
My ease and good-humour short raptures will bring,
And my voice,like the nightingale's, know but a spring.
For charms such as these then, your praises give o'er,
To love me for life, you must love me for more.

III

Then talk to me not of a shape or an air,
For Cloe, the wanton, can rival me there:
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'Tis virtue alone that makes beauty look gay,
And brightens good-humour, as sunshine the day;
For that if you love me, your flame shall be true,
And I in my turn, may be taught to love too.
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