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ON A BEAUTY WITH ILL QUALITIES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistaken nature here has join'd
Last Line: As unsuspected, as unseen.
Subject(s): Beauty; Deception; Duplicity; Deceit


I.
MISTAKEN Nature here has join'd
A beauteous Face and ugly Mind;
In vain the faultless Features strike,
When Soul and Body are unlike;
Pity, those snowy Breasts should hide,
Deceit, and Avarice, and Pride.

II.
So in rich Jars from China brought,
With glowing Colours gayly wrought,
Oft-times the subtle Spider dwells,
With secret Venom bloated swells,
Weaves all his fatal Nets within,
As unsuspected, as unseen.





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