Or her, whose life the Church and Scandal share,
For ever in a Passion, or a Pray'r.
(Epistle II: To A Lady (of The Characters Of Women))
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In his own ground.
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Fancy and Art in gay Petronius please,
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave He dreads a deathbed like the meanest slave.
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