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  • Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
    With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
    She trembled when a Man drew near;
    Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
    If o'er against her you were plac'd
    She durst not look above your Waist

    Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay (1742). “Miscellanies. In Four Volumes”, p.183