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NP.775.061
31 Jul-7 Aug 1775:41 (2/97)
THE PLAY-THING CHANGED.
Kitty's charming voice and face,
Syren-like, first caught my fancy;
Wit and humour next took place,
And now I doat on sprightly Nancy.
Kitty tunes her pipe in vain,
With airs most languishing and dying;
Calls me false ungrateful swain,
And tries in vain to shoot me flying.
Nancy, with resistless art,
Always hum'rous, gay, and witty,
Has talk'd herself into my heart,
And quite excluded tuneful Kitty.
Ah Kitty! Love, a wanting boy,
Now pleas'd with song, and now with prattle,
Still longing for the newest toy,
Has chang'd his whistle for a rattle.
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