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LETTER FROM MISS PRICE TO LORD CHESTERFIELD, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, / these are the gloves that I did mention
Last Line: But only for your recreation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Gloves; Price, Henrietta Maria; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Mittens; Muffs; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of


My Lord,
These are the gloves that I did mention
Last night, and 'twas with the intention
That you should give me thanks and wear them,
For I most willingly can spare them.
When you this packet first do see,
"Damn me!" cry you, "she has writ to me.
I had better be at Bretby still
Than troubled with love against my will.
Besides, this is not all my sorrow:
She writ today, she'll come tomorrow."
Then you consider the adventure
And think you never shall content her.
But when you do the inside see,
You'll find things are but as they should be,
And that 'tis neither love nor passion,
But only for your recreation.





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