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To Miss Margaret Pulteney, Daughter of Daniel Pulteney Esq; in the Nursery.

April 27, 1727.

DIMPLY damsel, sweetly smiling, All caressing, none beguiling, Bud of beauty, fairly blowing, Every charm to nature owing, 4This and that new thing admiring, Much of this and that enquiring, Knowledge by degrees attaining, Day by day some vertue gaining, 8Ten years hence, when I leave chiming, Beardless poets, fondly rhyming, (Fescu'd now, perhaps, in spelling) On thy riper beauties dwelling, 12Shall accuse each killing feature Of the cruel, charming, creature, Whom I knew complying, willing, Tender, and averse to killing. 16

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