Chapter V: COURT TALES: Or, MODERN AMOURS. Being the ADVENTURES of some Persons

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When Am’rous CHARLES _Britannia_’s Scepter bore,
Such were our Pleasures in the Days of yore,
The Nightly Scene of Joy the _Park_ was made,
And Love, in Couples, peopled ev’ry Shade:
But since at COURT the _Rural-Taste_ is lost,
What mighty Sums have _Velvet-Couches_ cost? GAY.

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