10 Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, Come then, the colours and the ground prepare Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air; Chufe a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere the change, the Cynthia of this minute. Rufa, whofe eye quick-glancing o'er the Park, Attracts each light gay meteor of a Spark, Agrees as ill with Rufa ftudying Locke, As Sappho's di'monds with her dirty smock; 19 tain-Leda with a fwan.-Magdalen-Cecilia-] Attitudes in which feveral ladies affected to be drawn, and fometimes one lady in them all. The poet's politeness and complaisance to the fex is obfervable in this inftance, amongst others, that, whereas in the Characters uf Men, he has fometimes made ufe of real names, in the Characters of Women always fictitious. VER. 20. Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.] Alluding to the precept of Fresnoy, formæ veneres captando fugaces. VER. 21. Instances of contrarieties, given even from fuch Characters as are most strongly mark'd, and seemingly therefort moft confiftent: As, I. In the Affected, ✈ 21, etc. r Sappho at her toilet's greazy task, 25 'he frail one's advocate, the Weak one's friend. 30 udden, she ftorms! fhe raves! You tip the wink, Papillia, wedded to her am'rous fpark, 35 Sighs for the fhades" How charming is a Park!" A Park is purchas'd, but the Fair he fees All bath'd in tears" Oh odious, odious Trees !" Tis to their Changes half their charms we owe; Their happy Spots the nice admirer take. 41 Twas thus Calypfo once each heart alarm'd, Aw'd without Virtue, without Beauty charm'd; VER. 29, and 37. II. Contrarieties in the Soft-natured. 45 50 Yet ne'er fo fure our paffion to create, As when the touch'd the brink of all we hate. бо To make a wash, would hardly stew a child; A very Heathen in the carnal part, Yet ftill a fad, good Christian at her heart. 66 VER. 52. As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.] Her charms confifted in the fingular turn of her vivacity; confequently the ftronger fhe exerted this vivacity, the more forcible must be her attraction. But the point, where it came to excefs, would destroy all the delicacy, and expofe all the coarseness of fenfuality. VER. 53. IV. In the Whimsical. VER. 57. in a Chriftian trim,] This is finely expreffed, implying that her very charity was as much an exterior of Religion, as the ceremonies of the feafon. It was not even in a Chriftian bumour, it was only in a Christian trim. See Sin in State, majestically drunk; 70 Proud as a Peeress, prouder as a Punk ; What then? let Blood and Body bear the fault, She fins with Poets thro' pure Love of Wit. Flavia's a Wit, has too much sense to Pray; VER. 69. V. In the Lewd and Vicious. VER. 87. Contrarieties in the Witty and Refin'd. VARIATIONS. VER. 77. What has not fir'd, etc.] In the MS. 75 80 85 Nor asks of God, but of her Stars, to give 96 100 Turn then from Wits; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obflinate. Or her, that owns her Faults, but never mends, Of Mirth and Opium, Ratafie and Tears, 110 VER. 89. Nor afks of God, but of her Stars.Death, that Opiate of the foul!] See Note on 90. of Ep. to Lord Cobbam. VER. 107. Or ber, who laughs at Hell, but (like her Grace) -Cries, "Ah! bow charming, if there's no fuch place !"'] i. e. Her who affects to laugh out of fashion, and ftrives to disbelieve out of fear. |