Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.

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Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
Author
Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
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London :: printed by T. Hodgkin; and are to be sold by Matth. Gillyflower, in Westminster-Hall,
1694.
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Epigrams -- Early works to 1800.
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43. EPIGRAM. On Miss Nell.

PRetty Miss Nell, her Mother being dead, Her Father brought to London to be bred. A Friend, 'mong other Sights, shew'd her the Park, Where she beheld each choice and ruffling Spark Of either Sex, and gilded Coaches full, Of Fops, and Beaus, and many a Gold-lac'd Trull.

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The gaudy Pageantry she did much admire, And their loose Courtship set her Heart on fire To bear a Part, tho' hopeless her desire. Returning home, her state she 'gan compare With what sh'ad seen, and ready to despair, An unknown Hand Relief to her did bring.
'I saw you, Sweet, say'd one, in Hide-Park-Ring, 'In a vile Hackny, with a Bag of Hay, 'And Figures at its Tale: If me y' obey, 'There's not a Gaz'd-at Piece in all the Town, 'Shall equal you in Glory and Renown. She had no strength 'gainst such a Powerful Spell, But closed streight, and bid no one farewell.
Er'e many Days did pass, the Country Girl Was richly Coach't, set by a bare-head Earl. Her flaunting Gallantry you might see a-far, Whore now her self, a Wonder, and a Star.
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