"Nature, my friend, profuse in vain, / May every gift impart; / If unimprov'd, they ne'er can gain / An empire o'er the heart."
Letter III. Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. [from The New Bath Guide]]
At least 28 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1766, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1779, 1784, 1788, 1791, 1794, 1797, 1800).<br> 
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See <u>The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-r-d family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles.</u> ([London]: sold by J. Dodsley; J. Wilson & J. Fell; and J. Almon, London; W. Frederick, at Bath; W. Jackson at Oxford; T. Fletcher & F. Hodson, at Cambridge; W. Smith, at Dublin; and the booksellers of Bristol, York and Edinburgh, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T91304">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq. with Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by his Son, John Anstey, Esq.</u> (London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1808). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr  i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z400262959:4">Link to LION</a>&gt;