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Ah, sweet Lucinda, best of girls, / How quick to take advice. / Behold her with unpapered curls, / And frock so rich and nice!
Her haughty stare! Who would suppose / That dress would change her so / Oh, blessed influence of fine clothes, / How much to thee we owe!