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Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

— William Shenstone Verses to a Lady (1736)

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Source: "Verses to a Lady" (1736), in Poems upon Various Occasions (Oxford: Leon Lichfield, 1737), p. 65.
Work: Verses to a Lady, 1736
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