Quae spirabat amores,
Quae me surpuerat mihi?
HORACE, Odes.
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CLELIA.
Her lively and pleasant Manners - Her Reading and Decision - Her Intercourse with different Classes of Society - Her kind of Character - The favoured Lover - Her Management of him: his of her - After one Period, Clelia with an Attorney; her Manner and Situation there - Another such Period, when her Fortune still declines - Mistress of an Inn - A Widow - Another such Interval: she becomes poor and infirm, but still vain and frivolous - The fallen Vanity - Admitted into the House: meets Blaney.
WE had a sprightly nymph - in every town
Are some such sprights, who wander up and down;
She had her useful arts, and could contrive,
In Time’s despite, to stay at twenty-five; -