I.

Tell me, oh tell!, what kind of Thing is _WIT_,

Thou who _Master_ art of it;

For the _first Matter_ loves Variety _less_;

Less _Women_ love't, either in _Love_ or _Dress_.

A thousand diff'rent Shapes it bears,

Comely in thousand Shapes appears;

Yonder we saw it plain, and here 'tis now,

Like _Spirits_ in a Place, we know not _how_.

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