English poem
VERSES written in a Book, called, Fables for the Female Sex, by Edward Moore
by David Garrick (1717–1779)
While here the poet paints the charms Which bless the perfect dame, How unaffected beauty warms, And wit preserves the flame:
How prudence, virtue, sense agree, To form the happy wife: In LUCY, and her book, I see The Picture, and the Life.
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