Citation - Independent Advertiser: 1749.02.13

IA.749.014
13 Mar 1749:12 (63)
BEAUTY'S VALUE.
by William Shakespear.
From a very correct manuscript.
  Beauty is but a vain and fleeting good,
  A shining gloss, that fadeth suddenly;
  A flower that dies, when almost in the bud,
  A brittle glass that breaketh presently. 
  A fleeting good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
  Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
. . . [1 more verse]