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STRANGE! all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!
ON MRS. TOFTS[1].
SO bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song,
As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along:
But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride.
That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died.
TWO OR THREE:
OR, A RECEIPT TO MAKE A CUCKOLD.
TWO or three visits, and two or three bows,
Two or three civil things, two or three vows,
Two or three kisses, with two or three sighs,
Two or three Jesuses and let-me-dies,
| Two or three squeezes, or two or three towzes, | 
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| (With two or three thousand pound lost at their houses) | 
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| Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses. | 
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- ↑ Mrs. Tofts was the daughter of a person in the family of Dr. Burnet, bishop of Salisbury. She lived at the introduction of the opera into this kingdom, and sung in company with Nicolini; but, being ignorant of Italian, chanted her recitative in English, in answer to his Italian: but the charms of their voices overcame this absurdity. Her character may be collected from the above epigram. She retired from England, and died at Venice about the year 1760.
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