ON THE LADY MANCHESTER

by: Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

HILE haughty Gallia's dames, that pread

O'er their pale cheeks, an artful red,

Beheld this beauteous stranger there

In native charms, divinely fair;

Confusion in their looks they show'd;

And with unborrow'd blushes glow'd.

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