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Three* Sister Ponds of which I whilome told, 

 Grac'd by most curious walks on dainty mould 

 Perpetual Springs which sweetly bubling rise, 

 Like Niobes distilling pearly eyes ; 



Thenf the square Pond or Fountain rather, 

 A Mermaid always sprouting out the water, 

 Where as it falls the Fishes seem to play, 

 Till time or fate conveys the stream away. 

 Boreplacel a seat of my beloved Friend, 

 Whose Ponds have streams on which a Mill attend, 

 Least overflowing streams the Corn offend, 

 A Fountain too there is well stor'd with fish, 

 And ready always for a friendly dish, 

 If that grow empty then he can Recruit, 

 By fetching from his Houses top sweet fruit; 

 I mean large Carps that in a Pond there be, 

 The product of his Ingenuity. 



Combanck^ another Pond well stor'd 

 And twenty more the County can afford, 

 But I'm a stranger to those fish and them, 

 So leave them to a more propitious Pen, 

 Yet if I Listed, I could Hundreds show, 



Of Ponds have Carps, but muddy grow : 



* Sir Nicolas Crisps, at tiquirres. 



t Tito. Knight, Esq ; t Mr. John Hide, at Sundridg, 



Henry Fane, Esq ; 



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