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A mother who vast Pleasure finds	A
In modelling her Childrens Minds	A
With whom in exquisite Delight	B
She passes many a Winter Night	B
Mingles in ev'ry Play to find	C
What Byass Nature gave the Mind	C
Resolving thence to take her Aim	D
To guide them to the Realms of Fame	D
And wisely make those Realms their Way	E
To Regions of eternal Day	E
Each boist'rous Passion to controul	F
And early humanize the Soul	F
In simple Tales beside the Fire	G
The noblest Notions would inspire	H
Her Children conscious of her Care	I
Transported hung around her Chair	I
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Of Scripture Heroes she would tell	F
Whose Names they lisp'd ere they could spell	F
The Mother then delighted smiles	J
And shews the Story on the Tiles	J
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At other Times her Themes would be	K
The Sages of Antiquity	K
Who left immortal Names behind	C
By proving Blessings to their Kind	C
Again she takes another Scope	L
And tells of Addison and Pope	L
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Studious to let her Children know	M
The various Turns of Things below	M
How Virtue here was oft oppress'd	N
To shine more glorious with the Bless'd	N
Told Tully's and the Gracchi's Doom	O
The Patriots and the Pride of Rome	P
Then bless'd the Drapier's happier Fate	Q
Who sav'd and lives to guard the State	Q
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Some Comedies gave great Delight	B
And entertain'd them many a Night	B
Others could no Admittance find	C
Forbid as Poison to the Mind	C
Those Authors Wit and Sense said she	K
But heighten their Impiety	C
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This happy Mother met one Day	C
The Book of Fables writ by Gay	C
And told her Children Here's a Treasure	G
A Fund of Wisdom and of Pleasure	G
Such Morals and so finely writ	C
Such Decency good Sense and Wit	C
Well has the Poet found the Art	C
To raise the Mind and mend the Heart	C
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Her fav'rite Son the Volume seiz'd	C
And as he read seem'd highly pleas'd	C
Made such Reflections ev'ry Page	R
The Mother thought above his Age	R
Delighted read but scarce was able	F
To finish the concluding Fable	F
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What ails my Child the Mother cries	S
Whose Sorrows now have fill'd your Eyes	S
O dear Mamma can he want Friends	T
Who writes for such exalted Ends	T
O base degen'rate human Kind	C
Had I a Fortune to my Mind	C
Should Gay complain But now alas	U
Thro' what a World am I to pass	U
Where Friendship is an empty Name	D
And Merit scarcely paid in Fame	D
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Resolv'd to lull his Woes to Rest	C
She tells him He should hope the best	C
This has been yet Gay's Case I own	V
But now his Merit's amply known	V
Content that tender Heart of thine	W
He'll be the Care of Caroline	W
Who thus instructs the royal Race	X
Must have a Pension or a Place	X
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Mamma if you were Queen says he	K
And such a Book were writ for me	K
I find 'tis so much to your Taste	C
That Gay would keep his Coach at least	C
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My Son what you suppose is true	Y
I see its Excellence in you	Y
Poets who write to mend the Mind	C
A royal Recompence should find	C
But I am barr'd by Fortune's Frowns	Z
From the best Privilege of Crowns	Z
The glorious godlike Pow'r to bless	A2
And raise up Merit in Distress	A2
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But dear Mamma I long to know	M
Were you the Queen what you'd bestow	M
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What I'd bestow says she my Dear	B2
At least a thousand Pounds a Year	B2

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