On a great coxcomb
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| ←To Mrs. D--- | On a great coxcomb by from The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker |
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(recovering from an Indisposition)
Narcissus (as Ovid informs us) expir'd,
Consum'd by the flames his own beauty had fir'd;
But N---o (who like him is charm'd with his face,
And sighs for his other fair-self in the glass)
Loves to greater excess than Narcissus---for why?
He loves himself too much to let himself die.
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