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To the Right Honourable

ROBERT WALPOLE Esq;

June 15, 1724.

VOTARY to publick zeal,Minister of England's weal,Have you leisure for a song,Tripping lightly o'er the tongue, 4Swift and sweet in every measure,Tell me, Walpole, have you leisure?Nothing lofty will I sing,Nothing of the favourite king, 8Something, rather, sung with ease,Simply elegant to please.
 Fairy virgin, British muse,Some unheard of story chuse: 12Chuse the Glory of the swain,Gifted with a magick strain,Swaging grief of every kind,Healing, with a verse, the mind: 16

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