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Advice To The Ladies At Bath. Written By A Lady.

by Mary Barber

Mary Barber

Ye heedless Fair, who trifle Life away,
Let either Brownlow set your Notions right:
Be, like the Daughter, innocently gay;
Or, like the Mother, prudent and polite.




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