[Prefixed to the second edition.]
EV'RY youth for love's sweet portion sighs,Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love;Why, alas! should bitter pain ariseFrom the noblest passion that we prove?
Thou, kind soul, bewailest, lov'st him well,From disgrace his memory's saved by thee;Lo, his spirit signs from out its cell:
BE A MAN, NOR SEEK TO FOLLOW ME.
1775.
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