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Her sweet smile, and her then majestic figure,

Her plumpness, her imperial condescension,

Her preference of a boy to men much bigger

(Fellows whom Messalina’s self would pension),

Her prime of life, just now in juicy vigour,

With other extras, which we need not mention⁠—

All these, or any one of these, explain

Enough to make a stripling very vain.