A dialogue between Moon and flowers
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AS the Design of these Dialogues carries them naturally into the Patronage of the Fair Sex; so your own Merit, and my Duty, determine them to your Ladyship.
To you Madam! who are blest with all those Natural Graces and Genteel Accomplishments, which justly commands universal Esteem; while Persons of true Taste and thorough Knowledge of Life, with Pleasure see even <ii> those exceeded by intellectual Beauties, and such as claim Addresses of this Nature. For what can be more engaging than to find at Lady Cairne's Table, the greatest Liberality and Elegance of Entertainment, outdone by improving conversation; and the Understanding more regaled than the Senses?
But I know I must forbear; and not offend such a Modesty as your's, even with Truth: However, I can't help shewing that I am neither insensible of what all the World admires, nor ungrateful for the Obligations you have so generously conferr'd on,