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The Scots musical museum : humbly dedicated to the Catch Club instituted at Edinr June 1771 by James Johnson . prove, When like me you are taught to ad _mire,And imagine . how. Than funfhine more dear to my fight,To my life more efsential than air,To my foul fhe is perfect delight,To my fenfe all thats pleafing and fair,The fwains who her beauty beholdWith tranfport applaud evry charm,And fwear that the breaft muft be coldWhich a beam fo intenfe cannot warm. Ahl fay will fhe (lightly forego,A conqueft, tho humble, yet fure;Wll fhe leave a poor fhepherd to woe,Who for her evry blifs would too prefaging my fears,Too jealous my foul of its blifs,Methinks fhe already appears,To for fee, and elude my addrefs. Does my boldnefs offend my dear maid,Is my fondnefs loquacious, and free, ,rAre my vifits too frequently paid,Or my converfe unwofthy of thee; ( when grief wastoo big for my_And laboured in fighs to complain,Its ftruggles I oft have fuppreft, -•—-And filence imposd on my painl And oft while, by tendernefs caughtTo my charmers retirement I flew^j-I reproachd the fond abfence of thoug-And in blufhing confufikm, fpeech, t
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