1711-12 This Day (The Year I Dare Not Tell) Apollo Play'D The Midwife'S Part; Into The World Corinna Fell, And He Endued Her With His Art. But Cupid With A Satyr Comes; Both Softly To The Cradle Creep; Both Stroke Her Hands, And Rub Her Gums, While The Poor Child Lay Fast Asleep. Then Cupid Thus: "This Little Maid Of Love Shall Always Speak And Write;" "And I Pronounce," The Satyr Said, "The World Shall Feel Her Scratch And Bite." Her Talent She Display'D Betimes; For In A Few Revolving Moons, She Seem'D To Laugh And Squall In Rhymes, And All Her Gestures Were Lampoons. At Six Years Old, The Subtle Jade Stole To The Pantry-Door, And Found The Butler With My Lady'S Maid: And You May Swear The Tale Went Round. She Made A Song, How Little Miss Was Kiss'D And Slobber'D By A Lad: And How, When Master Went To P - , Miss Came, And Peep'D At All He Had. At Twelve, A Wit And A Coquette; Marries For Love, Half Whore, Half Wife; Cuckolds, Elopes, And Runs In Debt; Turns Authoress, And Is Curll'S For Life. Her Common-Place Book All Gallant Is, Of Scandal Now A Cornucopia; She Pours It Out In Atalantis Or Memoirs Of The New Utopia.
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