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Impromptu Lines, Upon Anacreon Moore's Saying That He Disliked Singing To Men.

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By Beauty's caresses, like Cupid, half-spoil'd,     Thus Music's and Poesy's favourite child     Exclaim'd, - "'Tis, by Heaven! a terrible thing     Before a he-party to sit and to sing!"     "By my shoul! Master Moore, you there may be right,"     Said a son of green Erin; "tho' dear to my sight     Are all the sweet cratures, call'd women, I swear,     Yet I think we can feel just as well as the fair:     Tho' you'd bribe us with songs, blood and 'ounds! let me say,     I'd not be a woman for one in your way."

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