The Maidens Choice

Genteel in personage,

Conduct, and equipage;

Noble in heritage;

Generous and free;

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Brave, not romantic;

Learned, not pedantic;

Frolic, not frantic,-

This must he be.

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Honor maintaining,

Meanness disdaining,

Still entertaining,

Engaging and new;

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Neat, but not finical;

Sage, but not cynical;

Never tyrannical,

But ever true.

~

Henry Fielding