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The ghostly prudes with hagged face
Already had condemn'd the sinner.
My Lady rose, and with a grace-
She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner.

"Jesu-Maria! Madam Bridget,

"Why, what can the Viscountess mean? (Cried the square-hoods in woeful fidget) "The times are alter'd quite and clean!

"Decorum's turn'd to mere civility;
"Her air and all her manners show it.
"Commend me to her affability'
"Speak to a Commoner and Poet!"

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[These were in compliment to Mr. Bentley, who drew a set of D for Mr. Gray's Poems, particularly a Head-piece to The Long Sto

IN silent gaze the tuneful choir among,

Half pleas'd, half blushing let the muse admi While Bentley leads her sister art along, And bids the pencil answer to the lyre..

See, in their course, each transitory thought Fix'd by his touch a lasting essence take; Each dream, in Fancy's airy colouring wroug To local symmetry and life awake!

The tardy rhymes that us'd to linger on,
To censure cold, and negligent of fame,
In swifter measures animated run,

And catch a lustre from his genuine flame.

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