3996619Pastorals Epistles Odes (1748) — To Miss Margaret Pulteney Daughter of Daniel Pulteney Esq; in the NurseryAmbrose Philips
To MissMargaret Pulteney, Daughter ofDaniel PulteneyEsq; in the Nursery.
April27, 1727.
IMPLY damsel, sweetly smiling, All caressing, none beguiling, Bud of beauty, fairly blowing, Every charm to nature owing, 4 This and that new thing admiring, Much of this and that enquiring, Knowledge by degrees attaining, Day by day some vertue gaining, 8 Ten years hence, when I leave chiming, Beardless poets, fondly rhyming, (Fescu'd now, perhaps, in spelling) On thy riper beauties dwelling, 12 Shall accuse each killing feature Of the cruel, charming, creature, Whom I knew complying, willing, Tender, and averse to killing. 16