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Show [ 53 J They're able Workmen, and compleatly skill'd in The deepest- Arts and Myftcries of building 3 They'll build up Families, and, as rnoft fit is, Not only will erect but-People Cities : They'll fill, as well as fabricate, your Houfes. And; found a lasting Race of strong built Spoufes. What's m o r e - you'll find, whenever you befriend 'em;, They've Faith and Secrecy to recommend''em. If. fuch their Parts, fuch, Ladies, is their Merit, So great their Skill, and Strength, their Life, and Spirit;. What Female Heart can be fo very hard,. As to refufe them their deferv'd Reward ? Once on a Time, I've heard old Stories fay, Two Mafon Gods to Troy'Town took their Way,, Arriv'd, and hir'd to work, to work they fell 3 Hard was their Task, but executed well : With more than human Art, thefe Heav'nly Pow'rs, Rais?d Such prodigious Walls fuch f winging Tow'rs, As ftill defy'd all Greece's open Force, Nor fell,, but to let in their Wooden Horfe 3 • Gratis they did it, whatfoe'er was done, Kefus'd their Pay by King Laomedcn,- They talk of Mafon Kings, but Purely he was none.- Well was the Craft reveng'd for this Difgrace, | Dryden's Virgil I can fhow the Place, That tells us how this God-built T o w n was fir'd,'. And in the Mafons Quarrel Trqy^expir'd. Ladies, this Story is well worth your Learning, 6 hideous !' an't you all afraid of Burnm:*?. Let it this Truth, in each fai* Breaft inipire, That ev'ry Workman's worthy of his liue,;- J F ^ And M |