"There is no lover that is wife "Pretends to win at cards or dice: 1125 "'Tis for his mistress all is thrown; "Melanion, whilom lovely youth, "Fam'd for his valour and his truth, "Whom ev'ry beauty did adorn, "Fresh as Aurora's blushing morn, 1130 1135 "But muft his filent penance do "For once not buckling of her fhoe: "A good example, Child! for you; 1140 "Which fhews you when we have our fool "We've policy enough to rule. "I might have made you fuch a fellow Nay, been a helper in the ftable. "To my commands obedience pay "At dead of night or break of day. Volume I, 1145 1150 0 Speed is your province: if it is I "That bid you run you ought to fly. "} "He that Love's nimble paffion feels 1160 Bright Phœbus took Admetus' pay, "All this he did for fear of Jove; "And who would not do more for Love? 1165 "If entrance is by locks deny'd, "Then thro' the roof or window flide, "Leander each night swam the feas Perhaps I may be pleas'd to see "Your life in danger when for me. My porter, woman, fav'rite page, My dog, my parrot, monkey, black, "Or any thing that does partake "Of that admittance which you lack. 1170 } 1175 } "But after all you may n't prevail, "And your most glitt'ring hopes may fail; "For Ceres does not always yield 1180 "The crop entrusted to the field. "Fair gales may bring you to a coast "Where you'll by hidden rocks be lost. 1185 "Love is tenacious of its joys, "Gives small reward for great employs, "And when his angry arrows fall "They're not found ting'd with common gall. "You 're told I'm not at home, it is true : I may be there but not for you, "And I may let you fee it too. Perhaps I bid you come at night: "If the door is fhut ftay till it is light. "Perhaps my maid shall bid you go, "A thing fhe knows you dare not do. "Your rival fhall adniiffion gain, "And laugh to fee his foe in pain. "All this and more you must endure "If you from me expect a cure. "'Tis fitting I should search the wound "Left all your danger be not found." 1190 1195 } 1200 1205 When eafy fondness meets with woman's pride, Nothing which that can ask must be deny'd. He that enjoy'd the names of great and brave Is pleas'd to feem a female and a flave. The hero number'd with the gods before Is fo debas'd as to be man no more. PART IX. 1210 NoT by the fail with which you put to fea Daily till midnight let kind looks or fong, Or tales of Love, the pleafing hours prolong. [friends. Whom marriage-vows have render'd more than So Philomels of equal mates poffeft With a congenial heat and downy reft And care inceffant hover o'er their neft; 1227 Hence from their eggs (fmall worlds whence all things Produce a race by Nature taught to fing, [fpring) Who ne'er to this harmonious air had come Had their parental love ftray'd far from home. By a fhort abfence mutual joys increase : 'Tis from the toils of war we value peace. 1232 1235 When Jove a while the fruitful fhow'r restrains, Who did his death by oracles foreknow. 1240 And Hymen's altars with fresh incense burn. 1245 1250 They measure all their time by months and years. Poets are always virtue's friends; 'Tis what their Mufe ftill recommends; But then the fatal track it fhows They tell us how a husband's care 1255 In hands of a young spark call'd Paris, |