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[To Stella] 17<br />

[p.] 230 Stella, when we your Beauties trace,<br />

How easily we find,<br />

That Nature, when she form’d your Face,<br />

But copied from your Mind:<br />

And lest your Form should make you vain,<br />

She wisely did provide<br />

Superiour Beauty, both to pain<br />

And moderate your Pride.<br />

Resolving that no Vice should spoil<br />

What she so well design’d,<br />

She wisely made your Face a Foil<br />

To your more lovely Mind.<br />

A Song 18<br />

Stella and Flavia, every Hour,<br />

Do various Hearts surprise:<br />

In Stella’s Soul lies all her Power,<br />

But Flavia’s in her Eyes.<br />

More boundless Flavia’s conquests are,<br />

And Stella’s more confin’d:<br />

All can discern a Face that’s fair,<br />

But few a lovely Mind.<br />

Stella, like Britain’s Monarch, reigns<br />

O’er cultivated Lands;<br />

Like Eastern Tyrants Flavia deigns<br />

To rule o’er barren Sands.<br />

17Concanen, editor, “To Stella,” p. 230.<br />

18Concanen, editor, “A Song,” p. 234.<br />

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