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At regina gravi, &c.--Virg. Æn. iv. 1.--POPE

by (1688–1744)

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But anxious cares already seized the queen; She fed within her veins a flame unseen. Dryden's Transl.—WAKEFIELD.

The thought and turn of these lines is imitated from the Dispensary, Canto iii.:

Not beauties fret so much if freckles come, Or nose should redden in the drawing-room.