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NHG-P.776.022
31 Aug 1776:41 (15)
ON GAMING.
Dorinda chearful, young, and gay,
Brilliant at balls, at park and play;
Blest with a free engaging air;
In short entirely debonnaire:
Shall I relate?--Excuse the truth--
That bane of misled heedless youth,
Gaming! had quite engros'd her mind;
To not a vice beside inclin'd.
Oft would the melancholy fit,
No partner near for dear piquet!
At last a cruel spoiler came,
Deep in the myst'ries of the game,
A son of Mars, with brasen face,
Furnish'd with impudence and lace;
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