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252<br />

ANCIENT SONGS<br />

If thou wouldft here alledge, 105<br />

Thou art in years a boy<br />

So was Adonis, yet was he<br />

Fair Venus' only joy.<br />

Thus I, who ne'er before<br />

Of woman found fuch grace, HO<br />

But feeing now Co fair a dame<br />

; :<br />

Give me a kind embrace,<br />

I fupt with her that night,<br />

With joys that did abound ;<br />

And for the fame paid prefently, 1 1

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