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ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER

First Line: MISTAKEN NATURE HERE HAS JOIN'D
Last Line: AS UNSUSPECTED, AS UNSEEN.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; DECEPTION; DUPLICITY; DECEIT;
I.
MISTAKEN Nature here has join'd
A beauteous Face and ugly Mind;
In vain the faultless Features strike,
When Soul and Body are unlike;
Pity, those snowy Breasts should hide,
Deceit, and Avarice, and Pride.

II.
So in rich Jars from @3China@1 brought,
With glowing Colours gayly wrought,
Oft-times the subtle Spider dwells,
With secret Venom bloated swells,
Weaves all his fatal Nets within,
As unsuspected, as unseen.



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