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The lighteft leaf can leave its gl...
The strongest form is scatter'd by the air.
So yielding the warm temper of your mind,
So touch'd by ev'ry eye, so tofs'd by wind;
Oh! how unlike the heav'n my foul defign'd!
Unfeen, unheard, the throng around me move;
Not wishing praise, infenfible of love:

No whispers foften, nor no beauties fire;
Careless I fee the dance, and coldly hear the lyre.
So num'rous herds are driven o'er the rock;
No print is left of all the paffing flock:
So fings the wind around the solid stone:
So vainly beat the waves with fruitless moan.
Tedious the toil, and great the workman's care,
Who dare attempt to fix impreffions there:
But fhould fome swain more skilful than the reft,
Engrave his name upon this marble breast,
Not rolling ages cou'd deface that name;

Thro' all the storms of life 'tis ftill the fame :

Tho' length of years with mofs may shade the ground,
Deep, tho' unfeen, remains the fecret wound.

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EPILOGUE

To MARY, Queen of SCOTS.

Defign'd to be spoken by Mrs. OLD FIELD.

W

[By the Same.]

'HAT cou'd luxurious woman wish for more,

To fix her joys, or to extend her pow'r?
Their ev'ry wish was in this Mary feen,

Gay, witty, youthful, beauteous, and a queen!
Vain useless bleffings with ill conduct join'd!
Light as the air, and fleeting as the wind.
Whatever poets write, and lovers vow,

Beauty, what poor omnipotence haft thou!

Queen Befs had wiidom, council, power, and laws:

How few efpous'd a wretched beauty's caufe!

Learn thence, ye fair, more folid charms to prize,
Contemn the idle flatt'rers of your eyes.

The brighteft object shines but while 'tis new:
That influence leffens by familiar view.
Monarchs and beauties rule with equal fway,
All strive to ferve, and glory to obey ;
Alike unpitied when depos'd they grow,
Men mock the idol of their former vow.

Two

Two great examples have been shown to-day,
To what fure ruin paflion does betray;

What long repentance to fhort joys is due ;
When reafon rules, what glory does enfue!
If you will love, love like Eliza then;
Love for amusement, like those traytors men.
Think that the paftime of a leisure hour
She favour'd oft-but never shar'd her pow'r.
The traveller by defart wolves pursu'd,
If by his art the favage foe's fubdu'd,
The world will still the noble act applaud,
Tho' victory was gain'd by needful fraud.

Such is, my tender fex, our helpless cafe ;
And fuch the barbarous heart, hid by the begging face.
By paffion fir'd, and not with-held by shame,
They cruel hunters are; we, trembling game.
Truft me, dear ladies, (for I know 'em well,
They burn to triumph, and they figh to tell:
Cruel to them that yield, cullies to them that fell.
Believe me, 'tis by far the wifer course,

Superior art should meet fuperior force:

Hear, but be faithful to your int'rest still:

Secure your hearts-then fool with whom you

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Once again confult your toilet,

In the glass your face review:
So much weeping soon will spoil it,
And no fpring your charms renew.

IV. I like

IV.

I like you was born a woman,
Well I know what vapours mean:
The disease, alas! is common,
Single, we have all the spleen.

V.

All the morals that they tell us,
Never cur'd the sorrow yet:
Chufe, among the pretty fellows,
One of humour, youth, and wit.
.VI.

Prithee hear him every morning,
At the leaft an hour or two;
Once again at night returning,
I believe the dose will do.

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