TO E-*, 1. LET Folly smile, to view the names 2. And though unequal is thy fate, Yet envy not this gaudy state; Thine is the pride of modest worth. 3. Our souls at least congenial meet, Since worth of rank supplies the place. November, 1802. * Only printed in the private volume.-ED. REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J. M. B. PIGOT, ESQ., ON THE CRUELTY OF HIS MISTRESS *. Would you teach her to love? But leave her awhile, She shortly will smile, And then you may kiss your coquette. 3. For such are the airs Of these fanciful fairs, Yet a partial neglect Soon takes an effect, And humbles the proudest coquette. * Printed in the private volume only.-ED. If still, from false pride, Your pangs she deride, This whimsical virgin forget; Some other admire, Who will melt with your fire, And laugh at the little coquette. For me, I adore 6. Some twenty or more, I'd abandon them all, Did they act like your blooming coquette. No longer repine, 7. Adopt this design, And break through her slight-woven net; Away with despair, No longer forbear, To fly from the captious coquette. Ere quite with her snares you're beset: October 27th, 1806. TO THE SIGHING STREPHON*. 1. YOUR pardon, my friend, Your pangs to remove, 2. Since your beautiful maid Your flame has repaid, No more I your folly regret; She's now most divine, And I bow at the shrine Of this quickly reformed coquette. * These stanzas were only printed in the private volume.-ED. 3. Yet still, I must own, I should never have known From your verses, what else she deserved; Your pain seem'd so great, I pitied your fate, As your fair was so devilish reserved. 4. Since the balm-breathing kiss Can such wonderful transports produce; 5. You say, when "I rove, I've loved a good number, Yet there's pleasure, at least, in a change. 6. I will not advance, By the rules of romance, Or drive me to dreadful despair. |