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"Poetry"
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Work title:
"A Petition to a Steel Thimble, which a Lady usually wore in her Bosom; wrote at the Request of a Gentleman. [from Poems on Several Occasions]"
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Metaphor Category:
"Population"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1733
"Steal softly to her Heart, and see, / If any Room be left for me; / And if one Place be unpossess'd, / Fit to receive so true a Guest"
preview | full record— Masters, Mary (1694-1771)