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Nought but Love doth border near it,
Goose and Hen will Witness bear it.

Now to Natland, where choice Beauty,
And a Shepherd do salute me;
Lips I relish richly Roseack,
Purely Nectar and Ambrosiak;
But I'm chaste, as doth become me,
For the Country's Eyes are on me.

Now to Kirkland, truly by it
May that Say be verified:
"Far from God, but near the Temple,
Tho' their Pastor gave Example,
They are such a kind of Vermin,
Pipe they'd rather hear than Sermon.

Now to Kendall for * Cloth-making,
Sight, site, † Alderman awaking;
Beauteous Damsels, modest Mothers,
And her four and twenty Brothers;
Ever in her Honour spreading,
Where I had my Native Breeding.
Where
*   A Town so highly renown'd for her commodius Cloathing, and industrious Trading, as her Name is become famus in that kind. Camb. in Brit.
Cloth is my Bread. Mot.
†  
Now hast thou chang'd thy Title unto May'r,
Let Life, State, Style, improve thy Charter there.
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button -- "Kendall" -- Kendal
button -- "Kirkland" -- Kirkland
button -- "Natland" -- Natland
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