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Letters concerning

Ecoute ſans entendre, & lorgne en regardant.
Qui rougit ſans pudeur, & rit de tout ſans joïe,
De cent maux différens, prétend qu'elle eſt la proïe;
Et pleine de ſanté ſous le rouge & le fard,
Se plaint avec moleſſe, & ſe pame avec Art.

Umbriel, a duſky, melancholy Sprite
As ever ſullied the fair Face of Light,
Down to the central Earth, his proper Scene,
Repairs to ſearch the gloomy Cave of Spleen.
Swift on his ſooty Pinions flits the Gnome,
And in a Vapour reached the diſmal Dome.
No chearful Breeze this ſullen Region knows,
The dreaded Eaſt is all the Wind that blows.

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