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There was a Young Person of Crete

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There was a Young Person of Crete,
Whose toilette was far from complete;
She dressed in a...
There was a Young Person of Smyrna

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There was a Young Person of Smyrna,

Whose Grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat,
And said, 'Granny, burn that! ...
To Chloes breast young Cupid slily stole

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To Chloes breast young Cupid slily stole

But he crept in at Myras pocket hole
Written Extempore On A Halfpenny, Which a young lady gave a beggar, and the author redeemed for half-a-crown

DEAR little, pretty, fav'rite ore,

That once increas'd Gloriana's store;

That lay within her bosom bless'd,

Gods might have envied thee thy nest.

I've read, imperial Jove of old

For love transform'd himself to gold:

And why, for a more lovely lass,

May he not now have...