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ALL THE FAMILIAR COLLOQUIES OF DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, OF ROTERDAM, CONCERNING MEN, MANNERS, AND THINGS, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

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By N. BAILEY

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Unlike in Method, with conceal'd Design,

Did crafty Horace his low Numbers join;

And, with a sly insinuating Grace,

Laugh'd at his Friend, and look'd him in the Face:

Would raise a Blush, when secret Vice he found;

And tickled, while he gently prob'd the Wound:

With seeming Innocence the Crowd beguil'd;

But made the desperate Passes, when he smil'd.

Persius Sat. I. Dryden.

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LONDON

1725.