"Yet we have Reason, to supply / What nature did to man deny: / Weak viceroy! Who thy power will own, / When Custom has usurped thy throne?"
Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches [from Poems on Several Occasions]
At least 3 entries in ESTC (1734, 1735, 1736).<br>
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See Mary Barber, <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u> (London: Printed [by Samuel Richardson] for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42622">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Roger Lonsdale's <u>Eighteenth Century Women Poets</u> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).