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For to the mighty Lofs we now receive,

The next Affliction were to fee him Grieve.

THE

COQUET MOTHER

AND

COQUET DAUGHTER.

A

SON G.

T the clofe of the Day,

AT

When the Bean-flow'r and Hay Breath'd Odours in ev'ry Wind:

Love enliven'd the Veins

Of the Damfels and Swains;

Each glance and each action was kind:

Molly, wanton and free,

II.

Kifs'd, and fat on each Knee,

Fond

Fond ecftafie fwam in her Eyes,

See, thy Mother is near,

Hark! She calls thee to hear

What Age and Experience advise.

III.

Haft thou feen the blithe Dove

Stretch her Neck to her Love,.

All gloffy with Purple and Gold? If a Kifs he obtain,

She returns it again :

What follows, you need not be told.

IV.

Look ye, Mother, fhe cry'd,

You inftruct me in Pride,

And Men by Good-manners are won,

She who trifles with all

Is lefs likely to fall

Than fhe who but trifles with one.

Pr'ythee, Molly, be wife,

Left by fudden furprize

V.

Love should tingle in ev'ry Vein :

Take a Shepherd for Life,

And when once you're a Wife,

You fafely may trifle again.

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Molly finiling reply'd,

.VI.

Then I'll foon be a Bride;

Old Roger has Gold in his Cheft.

But I thought all you Wives
Chofe a Man for your Lives,

And trifled no more with the reft..

AN

A N

EPISTLE

FROM THE

Elector of Bavaria

TO THE

FRENCH KING:

AFTER THE

BATTEL of RAMILLIES.

Trifte petis munus: quis enim fua pralia victus Commemorare velit? referam tamen ordine, nec tam Turpe fuit vinci, quam contendiffe decorum ;

Magnaque dat nobis Tantus folatia VICTOR.

Ovid. Metam. Lib. 9.

Printed in the Year 1727.

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