Poems upon Several Occasions/9

For other versions of this work, see On the Queen's Picture, given in Exchange for Another (Granville).
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On the Queen’s Picture, given in
Exchange for another.

OF the rude Indians, artless and untaught,
So brightest Jewels are with Trifles bought:
Deceiv’d Ixion's Fate revers’d is show’d,
Imperial Juno given for a Cloud.

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