After VER. 198 in the MS.--
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ain I'd in Fulvia spy the tender wife;I cannot prove it on her, for my life:And, for a noble pride, I blush no less,Instead of Berenice, to think on Bess.Thus while immortal Gibber only sings(As ----- and H---y preach) for queens and kings,The nymph that ne'er read Milton's mighty line,May, if she love, and merit verse, have mine VER. 207 in the first edition-- In several men we several passions find;In women, two almost divide the kind. EPISTLE III.[20]--TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST.
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