The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon].

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1774
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Credit: The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Save her, I charge thee, from foul Infamy And lonely Shame : let Wedlock’s holy Tie Legitimate th’ indiffoluble Flames. / . If Birth too bafe, dilhonourable, with Mind Incultivate and vicious, to that Height 300 . ^ - I Forbid her Hopes to climb ; at leaft, fecure f From Penury her humble State, by thee 1 Elfe humbled more, and to Neceffitv, Stern Foe to Virtue, Fame, and Life, betray’d, A helplefs Prey.—Oh ! let no Parent’s Woe, 305 No Plaints of trolling Innocence, nor Tears Of pining Beauty, blaft thy guilty Joys. Shall ihe, fo late the Softener of thy Life, Thy chief Delight, whofe melting EiTence oft Lay with thy melting Effence kindly mix’d 31Q
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