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To flow'ry pages of sublime distress;

And to the heroine's soul-distracting fears

I early gave my sixpences and tears:

Oft have I travell'd in these tender tales,

To Darnley-Cottages and Maple-Vales,

And watch'd the fair-one from the first-born sigh,

When Henry pass'd and gazed in passing by;

Till I beheld them pacing in the park,

Close by a coppice where 'twas cold and dark;