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TO CLOE by HILDEBRAND JACOB

First Line: CLOE, BLOOMING SWEET AS MAY, / WE MUST TEMPT MAMA AWAY
Last Line: TRUST ME, CLOE, THIS WILL DO.
Subject(s): JEALOUSY; LOVE AFFAIRS; MOTHERS; TEMPERANCE; PROHIBITION;

CLOE, blooming sweet as May,
We must tempt Mama away;
Still the jealous dame destroys
All our schemes of future joys:
All the projects we have tried
Vainly yet have been applied.
At my bait she now must bite,
If I guess her temper right:
She shall have her lower too.
Trust me, Cloe, this will do.



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