On the Lady Manchester Written on his admission to the Kit-Cat Club, in compliance with the rule that every new member should name his toast, and write a verse in her praise. While haughty Gallia's dames, that pread O'er their pale cheeks, an artful red, Beheld this beauteous stranger there In native charms, divinely fair; Confusion in their looks they show'd; And with unborrow'd blushes glow'd. |
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