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Ingratitude appear'd then base,
but virtue more engaging.
Then now since happily I've hit,
I'll have no more delaying;
Let beauty yield to manly wit,
We lose ourselves in staying:
I'll haste dull courtship to a close,
Since marriage can my fears oppose,
Why should we happy minutes lose,
Since, Peggy, I must love thee.
Men may be foolish, if they please,
and deem't a lover's duty,
To sight, and sacrifice their case,
doating on a proud beauty:
Such was my case for many a year,
Still hope succeeding to my fear,
False Betty's charms now disappear,
Since Peggy's far outshine them.
FINIS.
