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NHG-P.764.029
27 Jul 1764:32 (408)
The following piece is inserted at this time by the desire
of several ladies, in the bloom of life--may it have the
desir'd effect, and give the dry, dull, drowsy batchelors a
start, that they may feel those joys and raptures there
represented.
The dry, dull, drowsy batcheler surveys
Alternate joyless nights and lonesome days;
No tender transports wake his fullest breast,
No soft endearments lull his cares to rest;
Stupidly free from nature's tend'rest ties,
Lost in his own sad self he lives and dies.
Not so the man to whom indulgent heaven,
That tender bosom friend, a wife has given;
. . . [10 more lines, describing the husband's joys, 12
lines explaining the insertion of such a poem]
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