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Poem by Mary Wortley Montagu


A Summary of Lord Lyttleton's Advice to a Lady


Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet,
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.



Mary Wortley Montagu


Mary Wortley Montagu's other poems:
  1. Ballad, on a Late Occurrence
  2. Impromptu, to a Young Lady Singing
  3. Town Eclogues: Saturday; the Small-Pox
  4. Answered, for Lord William Hamilton
  5. The Fifth Ode of the First Book of Horace Imitated


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