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Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale..

..consulting with a Friend about a Gown and Hat she was inclined to Wear.

Wear the gown, and wear the hat,
Snatch thy pleasures while they last;
Hadst thou nine lives, like a cat,
Soon those nine lives would be past.

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