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THE MAN OF FEELING, ao?
In a day or two he was To much mafter
of himfelf as to be able to rhime upon
the fubjeft. The following paftoral he
left, fome time after, on the handle of a
tea-kettle, at a neighbouring houfe where
we were vifiting; and as I filled the tea-¬
pot after him, 1 happened to.put it in my
pocket by a fimilar a£t of forgetfulnefs.
It is fuch as might be expe&ed from a
man who makes verfes for amufement. I
am pleated with fomewhat of good-na¬
ture that runs through it, becaufe I have
commonly obferved the writers of thefe
complaints beftow fome epithets on their
loft miftr^ffes rather too harfh for the
mere liberty of choice, which led them to
prefer another to the poet himfelf : I do
not doubt the vehemence of their paflion ;
but alas ! the fenfations of love are fome
thing more than the returns of gratitude.
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