First Line	Nature, perversly to your wish, has given
Author	Thomas Hervey
Addressee	Arabella Morton
Date	1725
Description	Answer [Courtship, marriage; Women]. In response to (and usually preceded by) Arabella Morton's "I Ask not Wit, nor Beauty do I crave..." Transcribed from "Answer by T.H—, second Son to the E— of B—" The gentleman's miscellany, In Verse and Prose... ed. Sir Butterfly Maggot, 1730, p. 44. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE\|CW0117223459.
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Nature, perversly to your Wish, has given

The choicest Blessings of indulgent Heav'n.

Equivocating Fair! you ask not Wit,

You ask not Beauty, neither is it fit:

Your Mind were slavish, did you love Excess,

For Misers only want what they possess.

Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40

f. 6; item #41

Local title: An answer by...second son to the earl of Bristol on Miss Morton.

Attributed author: second son to the earl of Bristol.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Follows Morton's "The Wish."

Clark MS 1976.014

Title	Poems on Several Occasions. /By Different Hands.
Period	1731-1760
Archive	Clark Library

p. 115

Local title: The Answer

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: Nature to thy Wish has given...

Other: Following Morton's "The humble Wish."

p. 79

Local title: The Answer

Attributed author: T. Harvey

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Included in a series of poems called "Bathinalia" in the Table of Contents. Following The Wish by Morton.