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NHG-P.771.070
20 Dec 1771:33 (791)
A Card. Messrs Fowles, Please to let poor Syphax know, in
answer to his eleborate performance in your last, that he
has as far outdone Plaubus, as a monkey does a babboon, in
describing a ladys head-dress; and for the present they
shall be coupled together, in the two following lines in
honor to them. Is this the fruit of your study?--
What's all the noisy jargon of the schools,
But idle nonsense of laborious fools?
Unhappy men! who thro' successive years,
From early youth, to life's last childhood errs.
. . . [14 lines]
For as the poet says,
There is that sweetness in a female mind,
Which in a man we cannot hope to find.
To this fair creature I'd sometimes retire,
Her conversation would new joys inspire.
. . . [8 more lines]
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