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To Belinda,
On her Sickness, and Recovery.
Sure never Pain such Beauty wore,
Or look'd so amiable before!
You Graces give to a Disease,
Adorn the Pain, and make it please;
Thus burning Incense sheds Perfumes,
Still fragrant as it still consumes.
Or look'd so amiable before!
You Graces give to a Disease,
Adorn the Pain, and make it please;
Thus burning Incense sheds Perfumes,
Still fragrant as it still consumes.
Nor can ev'n Sickness, which disarms
All other Nymphs, destroy your Charms;
All other Nymphs, destroy your Charms;
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