Robert Nugent

1702-1788 / England

Epigram X.

While Lucy, chaste as mountain snows,
Gives every idle fop a hearing;
In Mary's breast a passion glows,
Which stronger is from not appearing.
Say, who has chose the better part!
Mary, to whom no joy is missing;
Or she, who dupe to her own heart,
Pays the full price of Mary's kissing.
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