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evenings might induce you to take the 

 air on the leads of the palace. Many 

 ferenades have I fung under your win- 



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dows ; and, when you failed to appear, 

 with the found of my voice made the 

 vicarage re-echo through all its winding 

 lanes and dirty alleys. All heard me but 

 my cruel Fair-one ; me, wrapped in fur, fat 

 purring with contented infenfibility, or 

 flept with untroubled dreams. 



Though I cannot boaft thofe delicate 

 varieties of melody with which you fbme- 

 times ravim the ear of night, and flay 

 the liftening ftars ; though you fleep 

 hourly on the lap of the favourite of the 

 mufes, and arc patted by thofe fingers 

 which hold the pen of fcicnce ; and every 

 day, with her permiffion, dip your white 

 whiikers in delicious cream; yet am I 

 not deftitute of all advantages of birth, 

 education, and beauty. Derived from 

 Periian kings, my fnowy fur yet retains 

 K 4 the 



