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"How ill doth he deserve a lovers name,     Whose pale weak flame     Cannot retain     His heat, in spite of absence or disdain;     But doth"

"'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand     Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand     To their swoll'n pride and empty scribbling due;"

"If the quick spirits in your eye     Now languish and anon must die;     If every sweet and every grace     Must fly from that forsaken face;"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"