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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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ON MRS. WOFFINGTON.

THO' Peggy's charms have oft been sung,
The darling theme of every tongue,

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New praises still remain;
Beauty like her's may well infuse
New flights, new fancies, like a Muse,
And brighten every strain.
'Tis not her form alone I prize,
Which ev'ry fool, that has his eyes,
As well as I can see;
To say she's fair is but to say,
When the sun shines at noon 'tis day,
Which none need learn of me.
But I'm in love with Peggy's mind,
Where ev'ry virtue is combined,

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That can adorn the fair,
Excepting one you scarce can miss,
So trifling that you would not wish
That Virtue had been there.
She who professes all the rest,
Must sure excel the prude whose breast
That Virtue shares alone;
To seek perfection is a jest,
They who have fewest faults the best,
And Peggy has but one.