English poem
On the Dutchess of Portsmouth
by Anonymous
Had she but liv'd in Cleopatra's age, When beauty did the earth's great lords engage, Britain, nor Egypt, had been glorious made; Augustus then, like Julius, had obey'd: A nobler theme had been the Poet's boast, That all the world for Love had well been lost.
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