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@@ -1,37 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl -of Rochester, by John Wilmot - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester - Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems - -Author: John Wilmot - -Release Date: February 13, 2014 [EBook #44891] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - - - - -Produced by Mark C. Orton, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from scanned images of public domain -material from the Google Print project.) - - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44891 *** Transcriber's Note: @@ -1345,7 +1312,7 @@ The ADVICE. All Things submit themselves to your Command, - Fair _Caelia_, when it does not Love withstand: + Fair _Cælia_, when it does not Love withstand: The Pow'r it borrows from your Eyes alone; All but the God must yield to, who has none. Were he not blind, such are the Charms you have, @@ -1374,7 +1341,7 @@ The ADVICE. Stop or molest them in their amorous Course; They swell, break down with Rage, and ravage o'er The Banks they kiss'd, and Flow'rs they fed before. - Submit then, _Caelia_, e'er you be reduc'd; + Submit then, _Cælia_, e'er you be reduc'd; For Rebels, vanquish'd once, are vilely us'd. Beauty's no more but the dead Soil, which Love Manures, and does by wise Commerce improve: @@ -1395,7 +1362,7 @@ The ADVICE. The DISCOVERY. - _Caelia_, that faithful Servant you disown, + _Cælia_, that faithful Servant you disown, Would in Obedience keep his Love his own: But bright Ideas, such as you inspire, We can no more conceal, than not admire. @@ -1464,7 +1431,7 @@ _To LOVE._ Has leave to be a Bawd, and take her Ease. For me then, who have truly spent my Blood (Love) in thy Service; and so boldly stood - In _Caelia_'s Trenches; were't not wisely done, + In _Cælia_'s Trenches; were't not wisely done, E'en to retire, and live in Peace at home? No--might I gain a Godhead to disclaim My glorious Title to my endless Flame: @@ -2061,7 +2028,7 @@ Upon his leaving his _MISTRESS_. To ev'ry Grain affords a Birth: On her no Show'rs unwelcom fall, Her willing Womb retains 'em all. - And shall my _Caelia_ be confin'd? } + And shall my _Cælia_ be confin'd? } No, live up to thy mighty Mind; } And be the Mistress of Mankind. } @@ -2400,362 +2367,4 @@ _FINIS._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester, by John Wilmot -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - -***** This file should be named 44891.txt or 44891.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/8/9/44891/ - -Produced by Mark C. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester - Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems - -Author: John Wilmot - -Release Date: February 13, 2014 [EBook #44891] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - - - - -Produced by Mark C. Orton, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from scanned images of public domain -material from the Google Print project.) - - - - - - - Transcriber's Note: - - Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as - possible. - - Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. - OE ligatures have been expanded. - - - - - THE WORKS OF THE - RIGHT HONOURABLE - _JOHN_ Earl of _Rochester_. - - Consisting of - SATIRES, SONGS, TRANSLATIONS, - AND OTHER - Occasional POEMS. - - [Illustration] - - _LONDON_: - Printed for the Booksellers of _London_ and - _Westminster_. 1718. Price 1 _s._ - - - - -[Illustration] - - - - -THE CONTENTS. - - - A _Satire against Mankind_. Page 3 - - _Tunbridge-Wells: A Satire._ p. 11 - - Horace_'s Nempe incomposita dixi pede, &c. imitated._ p. 19 - - _A Satire against Marriage._ p. 25 - - _A Letter from _Artemisa_ in the Town, to _Cloe_ in the - Country._ p. 29 - - _An Epistolary Essay from _M. G._ to _O. B._ upon their mutual - Poems._ p. 41 - - _The maim'd Debauchee._ p. 46 - - _Upon Nothing._ p. 49 - - _The Advice._ p. 53 - - _The Discovery._ p. 56 - - _The ninth Elegy in the second Book of _Ovid_'s Amours - translated._ To Love. p. 58 - - _Woman's Honour. A Song._ p. 62 - - _Grecian Kindness. A Song._ p. 64 - - _The Mistress. A Song._ p. 65 - - _A Song._ p. 67 - - _To _Corinna_. A Song._ p. 69 - - _A Young Lady to her antient Lover. A Song._ p. 71 - - _To a Lady, in a Letter. A Song._ p. 73 - - _The Fall. A Song._ p. 75 - - _Love and Life. A Song._ p. 77 - - _A Song._ p. 78 - - _A Song._ p. 79 - - _A Song._ p. 80 - - _Upon his leaving his Mistress._ p. 82 - - _Upon drinking in a Bowl._ p. 84 - - _A Song._ p. 86 - - _A Song._ p. 88 - - _The Answer._ p. 89 - - _A Song._ p. 91 - - _Constancy. A Song._ p. 94 - - _A Song._ p. 95 - -[Illustration] - -_FINIS._ - - - - -A SATIRE AGAINST MANKIND. - - - Were I, who to my Cost already am, - One of those strange, prodigious Creatures _Man_, - A Spirit free, to chuse for my own Share, } - What Sort of Flesh and Blood I pleas'd to wear, } - I'd be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear; } - Or any thing, but that vain Animal, - Who is so proud of being Rational. - The Senses are too gross; and he'll contrive - A sixth, to contradict the other five: - And before certain Instinct, will prefer - Reason, which fifty Times for one does err. - Reason, an _Ignis Fatuus_ of the Mind, - Which leaves the Light of Nature, Sense, behind. - Pathless, and dang'rous, wand'ring Ways it takes, - Thro Error's fenny Boggs, and thorny Brakes: - Whilst the misguided Follower climbs with Pain - Mountains of Whimseys heapt in his own Brain; - Stumbling from Thought to Thought, falls headlong down - Into Doubt's boundless Sea, where like to drown, - Books bear him up a while, and make him try - To swim with Bladders of Philosophy: - In hopes still to o'ertake the skipping Light, } - The Vapour dances in his dazzled Sight, } - Till spent, it leaves him to eternal Night. } - Then old Age and Experience, Hand in Hand, - Lead him to Death, and make him understand, - After a Search so painful, and so long, - That all his Life he has been in the wrong. - Huddled in Dirt the reas'ning Engine lies, - Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise: - Pride drew him in, as Cheats their Bubbles catch, - And made him venture to be made a Wretch: - His Wisdom did his Happiness destroy, - Aiming to know the World he should enjoy. - And Wit was his vain frivolous Pretence, - Of pleasing others at his own Expence. - For _Wits_ are treated just like _Common-Whores_; - First they're enjoy'd, and then kick'd out of Doors. - The Pleasure past, a threat'ning Doubt remains, - That frights th' Enjoyer with succeeding Pains. - Women, and Men of Wit are dang'rous Tools, - And ever fatal to admiring Fools. - Pleasure allures, and when the Fops escape, } - 'Tis not that they're belov'd, but fortunate; } - And therefore what they fear, at Heart they hate. } - But now methinks some formal Band and Beard - Takes me to Task, Come on, Sir, I am prepar'd: - Then by your favour, any thing that's writ - Against this gibing, gingling Knack call'd Wit, - Likes me abundantly; but you'll take Care - Upon this Point not to be too severe: - Perhaps my Muse were fitter for this Part; } - For I profess I can be very smart } - On Wit, which I abhor with all my Heart. } - I long to lash it in some sharp Essay, } - But your grand Indiscretion bids me stay, } - And turns my Tide of Ink another Way. } - What Rage ferments in your degen'rate Mind, - To make you rail at Reason and Mankind? - Blest glorious Man, to whom alone kind Heav'n - An everlasting Soul hath freely giv'n; - Whom his great Maker took such Care to make, - That from himself he did the Image take; - And this fair Frame in shining Reason drest, - To dignify his Nature above Beast. - Reason, by whose aspiring Influence, - We take a Flight beyond Material Sense, - Dive into Mysteries, then soaring pierce - The flaming Limits of the Universe; - Search Heav'n and Hell, find out what's acted there, - And give the World true Grounds of Hope and Fear. - - Hold, mighty Man, I cry; all this we know - From the pathetick Pen of _Ingelo_: - From _Patrick_'s Pilgrim, _Sibb_'s Soliloquies, - And 'tis this very Reason I despise; - This supernat'ral Gift, that makes a Mite - Think he's the Image of the Infinite; - Comparing his short Life, void of all Rest, - To the eternal and the ever-blest: - This busy, puzzling, Stirrer up of Doubt, - That frames deep Mysteries, then finds 'em out, - Filling with frantick Crouds of thinking Fools, - The rev'rend Bedlams, Colleges and Schools, - Born on whose Wings each heavy Sot can pierce - The Limits of the boundless Universe. - So charming Ointments make an old Witch fly, - And bear a crippl'd Carcase thro' the Sky. - 'Tis this exalted Pow'r whose Bus'ness lies - In Nonsense and Impossibilities: - This made a whimsical Philosopher, - Before the spacious World his Tub prefer: - And we have many modern Coxcombs who - Retire to think, 'cause they have nought to do. - But Thoughts were giv'n for Action's Government; - Where Action ceases, Thought's impertinent. - Our Sphere of Action is Life's Happiness, - And he that thinks beyond, thinks like an Ass. - Thus whilst against false Reas'ning I inveigh, - I own right Reason, which I would obey; - That Reason which distinguishes by Sense, - And gives us Rules of Good and Ill from thence; - That bounds Desires with a reforming Will, - To keep them more in Vigour, not to kill: - Your Reason hinders, mine helps to enjoy, - Renewing Appetites yours would destroy. - My Reason is my Friend, yours is a Cheat, - Hunger calls out, my Reason bids my eat; - Perversly yours your Appetite do's mock; - This asks for Food, that answers what's't a Clock. - - This plain Distinction, Sir, your Doubt secures; - 'Tis not true Reason, I despise but yours. - Thus, I think Reason righted: But for Man, - I'll ne'er recant, defend him if you can. - For all his Pride, and his Philosophy, } - 'Tis evident Beasts are, in their Degree, } - As wise at least, and better far than he. } - Those Creatures are the wisest, who attain - By surest Means, the Ends at which they aim. - If therefore _Jowler_ finds, and kills his Hare, - Better than _Meres_ supplies Committee Chair; - Tho' one's a Statesman, t'other but a Hound; - _Jowler_ in Justice will be wiser found. - You see how far Man's Wisdom here extends: - Look next if Human Nature makes amends; - Whose Principles are most generous and just, - And to whose Morals you wou'd sooner trust. - Be judge your self, I'll bring it to the Test, - Which is the basest Creature, Man, or Beast: - Birds feed on Birds, Beasts on each other prey, - But savage Man alone do's Man betray. - Prest by Necessity, _They_ kill for Food; - Man undoes Man, to do himself no good. - With Teeth and Claws, by Nature arm'd, _They_ hunt - Nature's Allowance, to supply their Want: - But Man with Smiles, Embraces, Friendships, Praise, - Inhumanly his Fellow's Life betrays; - With voluntary Pains works his Distress; - Not thro' Necessity, but Wantonness. - For Hunger, or for Love, _They_ bite, or tear, - Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for Fear; - For Fear he arms, and is of Arms afraid; - From Fear to Fear successively betray'd. - Base Fear, the Source whence his best Passions came, - His boasted Honour, and his dear-bought Fame: - The Lust of Pow'r, to which he's such a Slave, - And for the which alone he dares be brave: - To which his various Projects are design'd, - Which makes him gen'rous, affable, and kind: - For which he takes such Pains to be thought wise, - And scrues his Actions in a forc'd Disguise: - Leads a most tedious Life in Misery, - Under laborious, mean Hypocrisy. - Look to the Bottom of his vast Design, - Wherein Man's Wisdom, Pow'r, and Glory join; - The Good he acts, the Ill he do's endure, - 'Tis all from Fear, to make himself secure. - Meerly for Safety, after Fame they thirst; - For all Men would be Cowards, if they durst: - And Honesty's against all common Sense, - Men must be Knaves; 'tis in their own Defence - Mankind's dishonest: If they think it fair, - Amongst known Cheats, to play upon the Square, - You'll be undone-- - Nor can weak Truth your Reputation save; - The Knaves will all agree to call you Knave. - Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, - Who dares be less a Villain than the rest. - Thus here you see what Human Nature craves, - Most Men are Cowards, all Men shou'd be Knaves. - The Difference lies, as far as I can see, - Not in the thing it self, but the Degree; - And all the Subject Matter of Debate, - Is only who's a Knave of the first Rate. - - - - -_Tunbridge-WELLS_: - -A SATIRE. - - - At Five this Morn, when _Phoebus_ rais'd his Head - From _Thetis_ Lap, I rais'd my self from Bed; - And mounting Steed, I trotted to the Waters, } - The Rendezvous of Fools, Buffoons, and Praters, } - Cuckolds, Whores, Citizens, their Wives and Daughters. } - My squeamish Stomach I with Wine had brib'd, - To undertake the Dose that was prescrib'd; - But turning Head, a sudden cursed Crew, } - That innocent Provision overthrew, } - And without drinking, made me purge and spew; } - From Coach and Six, a Thing unwieldy roll'd, - Whom Lumber-Cart more decently would hold, - As wise as Calf it look'd, as big as Bully, - But handled, prov'd a meer Sir _Nich'las Cully_: - A bawling Fop, a _Nat'ral Nokes_, and yet - He dar'd to censure, to be thought a Wit. - To make him more ridiculous in Spite, - Nature contriv'd the Fool should be a Knight. - How wise is Nature when she does dispense - A large Estate to cover Want of Sense. - The Man's a Fool, 'tis true, but that's no Matter, } - For he's a mighty Wit with those that flatter, } - But a poor Blockhead is a wretched Creature. } - _Grant the unlucky Stars, this o'ergrown Boy - To purchase some aspiring pretty Toy, - That may his Want of Sense and Wit supply, - As Buxom Crab-fish doth his Lechery._ - Tho' he alone was dismal Sight enough, } - His Train contributed to set him off; } - All of his Shape, all of the self-same Stuff: } - No Spleen or Malice could on them be thrown, } - Nature had done the Bus'ness of Lampoon, } - And in their Looks their Characters were shewn. } - Endeavouring this irksome Sight to baulk, } - And a more irksom Noise, their silly Talk; } - I silently slunk down to'th Lower Walk. } - But often when one would _Charybdis_ shun, - Down upon _Scylla_ 'tis our Fate to run: - For there it was my cursed Luck to find - As great a Fop, tho' of another kind; - A tall, stiff Fool, that walk'd in _Spanish_ Guise, } - The Buckram Poppet never stirrd his Eyes, } - But grave as Owl he look'd, as Woodcock wise. } - He scorns the empty Talk of this made Age, - And speaks all Proverb, Sentence, and Adage: - Can with as much Solemnity buy Eggs, - As a Cabal can talk of their Intrigues: - Master of Ceremonies, yet can't dispense - With the Formality of Talking Sense. - From whence unto the Upper Walk I came, - Where a new Scene of Foppery began; - A Tribe of Curates, Priests, Canonical Elves, - Fit Company for none besides themselves, - Were got together; each his Distemper told, - Scurvy, Stone, Strangury; some were so bold, - To charge the Spleen to be their Misery, - And on that wise Disease lay Infamy: - But none had Modesty enough t'explain } - His Want of Learning, Honesty, or Brain, } - The general Diseases of that Train. } - These call themselves Ambassadors of Heaven, - And sawcily pretend Commissions given: - But should an _Indian_ King, whose small Command - Seldom extends beyond ten Miles of Land, - Send forth such wretched Fools on an Embassage. - He'd find but small Effects of such a Message. - List'ning, I found the Cob of all this Rabble, - Pert _Bayes_ with his Importance comfortable; - He being rais'd to an Archdeaconry, - By trampling on Religion, Liberty, - Was grown so great, and look'd too fat and jolly } - To be disturb'd with Care and Melancholly, } - Tho' _Marvel_ had enough expos'd his Folly. } - He drank to carry off some old Remains - His lazy dull Distemper left in's Brains; - Let him drink on; but 'tis not a whole Flood } - Can give sufficient Sweetness to his Blood, } - To make his Nature, or his Manners good. } - _Importance_ drank too, _tho' she had been no Sinner, - To wash away some Dregs he had spew'd in her_. - Next after these, a fulsom _Irish_ Crew - Of silly _Macks_ were offer'd to my View; - The things did talk, but hearing what they said, - I hid my self the Kindness to evade. - Nature had plac'd these Wretches beneath Scorn, - They can't be call'd so vile as they are born. - Amidst the Crowd, next I my self convey'd, - For now there comes, White-Wash and Paint being laid, - Mother and Daughter, Mistress and the Maid, - And Squire with Wig and Pantaloons display'd. - But ne'er could Conventicle, Play, or Fair, - For a true Medly with this Herd compare, - Here Lords, Knights, Squires, Ladies, and Countesses, - Chandlers, and barren Women, Sempstresses, - Were mix'd together; nor did they agree - More in their Humours, than their Quality. - Here waiting for Gallant young Damsel stood - Leaning on Cane, and muffl'd up in Hood. - The Wou'd-be-wit, whose Bus'ness was to woe, - With Hat remov'd, and solemn Scrape of Shoe, - Advances bowing, then gentilely shrugs, - And ruffl'd Fore-top into Order tugs; - And thus accosts her: _Madam, methinks the Weather - Is grown much more serene, since you came hither: - You influence the Heav'ns; but shou'd the Sun - Withdraw himself, to see his Rays outdone - By your bright Eyes, they could supply the Morn, - And make a Day, before the Day be born._ - With Mouth screw'd up, conceited winking Eyes, - And Breast thrust forward, _Lard Sir_, she replies, - _It is your Goodness, and not my Deserts, - Which makes you shew this Learning, Wit, and Parts._ - He puzzled, bites his Nails, both to display - The sparkling Ring, and think what next to say, - And thus breaks forth afresh; _Madam, Egad, - Your Luck at Cards, last Night, was very bad; - At Cribbidge Fifty Nine, and the next Shew, - To make the Game, and yet to want these Two. - G--D--me, Madam, I'm the Son of a Whore, - If, in my Life, I saw the like before._ - To Pedlar's Stall he drags her, and her Breast - With Hearts, and such like foolish Toys he drest, - And then, more smartly to expound the Riddle - Of all his Prattle, gives her a _Scotch_ Fiddle. - Tir'd with this dismal Stuff, away I ran, } - Where were two Wives, with Girl just fit for Man, } - Short-breath'd, and palled Lips, and Visage wan. } - Some Court'sies past, and the old Compliment - Of being glad to see each other, spent, - With Hand in Hand they lovingly did walk, - And one began thus to renew the Talk: - _I pray, Good Madam, if it mayn't be thought - Rudeness in me, what Cause has hither brought - Your Ladyship?_ She soon replying, smil'd, - _We've got a good Estate, but have no Child; - And I'm inform'd, these Wells will make a barren - Woman as fruitful as a Coney-Warren._ - The first return'd, _For this Cause I am come, - For I can have no Quietness at Home; - My Husband grumbles, tho' we have got one, - This poor young Girl, and mutters for a Son: - And this is griev'd with Head-ach, Pangs, and Throws, - Is full Sixteen, and never yet had Those._ - She soon reply'd, _Get her a Husband, Madam; - I marry'd about that Age, and ne'er had had 'em - Was just like her, Steel Waters let alone, - A Back of Steel will better bring Them down. - And Ten to one, but they themselves will try - The same Means to increase the Family._ - Poor silly Fribble! who by Subtilty, - Of Midwife, truest Friend to Lechery, - Perswaded art to be at Pains and Charge, - To give thy Wife Occasion to enlarge - Thy silly Head: For here walks _Cuff_ and _Kick_, - With Brawny Back, and Legs, and potent P----, - Who more substantially can cure thy Wife, - And on her half-dead Womb bestow new Life; - From these the Waters got their Reputation - Of good Assistants unto Propagation. - Some warlike Men were now got into th' Throng, - With Hair ty'd back, singing a bawdy Song; - Not much afraid, I got a nearer View, - And 'twas my Chance to know the dreadful Crew; - They were Cadets, that seldom can appear, - Damn'd to the Stint of Thirty Pounds a Year; - With Hawk on Fist, and Grey-Hound led in Hand, - The Dog and Foot-Boys sometimes to command, - And now having trimm'd a Cast of spavin'd Horse, } - With Three Half-Pence for Guineas in their Purse, } - Two rusty Pistols, Scarf about their Arse, } - Coat lin'd with Red, they here presume to swell, - This goes for Captain, that for Collonel. - So the Bear-Garden Ape, on his Steed mounted, - No longer is a Jackanapes accounted; - And is, by virtue of his Trump'ry, then - Call'd by the Name of the young Gentleman: - Bless me! thought I, what thing is Man, that thus - In all his Shapes is so ridiculous? - Our selves with Noise of Reason we do please, - In vain Humanity is our worst Disease; - Thrice happy Beasts are, who because they be - Of Reason void, are so of Foppery. - _Faith, I was so asham'd, that with Remorse, - I us'd the Insolence to mount my Horse; - For he doing only Things fit for his Nature, - Did seem to me by much the wiser Creature._ - - - - -_HORACE_'s _Nempe incomposito dixi pede_, &c. IMITATED. - - - Well, Sir, 'tis granted, I said _Dryden_'s Rhimes - Were stoll'n, unequal, nay, dull many Times: - What foolish Patron is there found of his - So blindly partial to deny me this? - But that his Plays embroider'd up and down } - With Wit and Learning, justly please the Town, } - In the same Paper I as freely own. } - Yet having this allow'd, the heavy Mass - That stuffs up his loose Volumes, must not pass: - For by that Rule, I might as well admit - _Crown_'s tedious Sense for Poetry and Wit. - 'Tis therefore not enough, when your false Sense - Hits the false Judgment of an Audience - Of clapping Fools assembling, a vast Crowd, - Till the throng'd Play-House crack with the dull Load; - Tho' ev'n that Talent merits, in some sort, - That can divert the Rabble and the Court; - Which blund'ring _Settle_ never could attain, - And puzz'ling _Otway_ labours at in vain: - But within due Proportion circumscribe - Whate'er you write, that with a flowing Tide - The Stile may rise, yet in its Rise forbear - With useless Words t'oppress the weary'd Ear. - Here be your Language lofty, there more light, - Your Rhet'rick with your Poetry unite: - For Elegance sake, sometimes allay the Force - Of Epithets, 'twill soften the Discourse - A Jest in Scorn points out, and hits the Thing - More home, than the morosest Satyr's Sting. - _Shakespear_ and _Johnson_ did in this excel, - And might herein be imitated well; - Whom refin'd _Etherege_ copies not at all, - But is himself a meer Original; - Nor that slow Drudge in swift Pindarick Strains, } - _Flatman_, who _Cowley_ imitates with Pains, } - And rides a jaded Muse, whipt, with loose Reins. } - When _Lee_ makes temp'rate _Scipio_ fret and rave, - And _Hannibal_ a whining am'rous Slave, - I laugh, and wish the hot-brain'd Fustian Fool - In _Busby_'s Hands, to be well lash'd at School. - Of all our modern Wits, none seem to me } - Once to have touch'd upon true _Comedy_, } - But hasty _Shadwell_, and slow _Wycherley_. } - _Shadwell_'s unfinish'd Works do yet impart - Great Proofs of Force of Nature, none of Art; - With just bold Stokes he dashes here and there, - Shewing great Mastery with little Care; - Scorning to varnish his good Touches o'er, - To make the Fools and Women praise him more: - But _Wycherley_ earns hard whate'er he gains; - He wants no Judgment, and he spares no Pains: - He frequently excells, and at the least, - Makes fewer Faults than any of the rest. - _Waller_, by Nature for the Bays design'd, } - With Force, and Fire, and Fancy, unconfin'd, } - In Panegyrick do's excel Mankind: } - He best can turn, enforce, and soften things, - To praise great Conquerors, and flatter Kings. - For pointed Satyr I would _Buckhurst_ choose, - The best Good Man with the worst-natur'd Muse. - For Songs and Verses mannerly obscene, } - That can stir Nature up by Springs unseen, } - And, without forcing Blushes, warm the Queen; } - _Sedley_ has that prevailing, gentle Art, } - That can with a resistless Pow'r impart } - The loosest Wishes to the chastest Heart; } - Raise such a Conflict, kindle such a Fire - Betwixt declining Virtue and Desire, - Till the poor vanquish'd Maid dissolves away - In Dreams all Night, in Sighs and Tears all Day. - _Dryden_ in vain try'd this nice Way of Wit, - For he to be a tearing Blade thought fit; - But when he would be sharp, he still was blunt, - To frisk and frolick Fancy he'd cry ---- - Wou'd give the Ladies a dry bawdy Bob; - And thus he got the Name of Poet Squab: - But to be just, 'twill to his Praise be found, - His Excellences more than Faults abound; - Nor dare I from his sacred Temples tear - The Laurel, which he best deserves to wear; - But do's not _Dryden_ find ev'n _Johnson_ dull? - _Beaumont_ and _Fletcher_ incorrect and full - Of _Lewd Lines_, as he calls 'em? _Shakespear_'s Stile - Stiff and affected? To his own the while, - Allowing all the Justice that his Pride - So arrogantly had to these deny'd? - And may not I have Leave impartially - To search and censure _Dryden_'s Works, and try - If those gross Faults his choice Pen doth commit, - Proceed from Want of Judgment, or of Wit? - Or if his lumpish Fancy do's refuse - Spirit and Grace to his loose slattern Muse? - Five Hundred Verses ev'ry Morning writ - Prove him no more a Poet than a Wit: - Such scribb'ling Authors have been seen before, } - _Mustapha_, the _Island Princess_, Forty more, } - Were things, perhaps, compos'd in Half an Hour. } - To write, what may securely stand the Test - Of being well read over, thrice at least; - Compare each Phrase, examine ev'ry Line, - Weigh ev'ry Word, and ev'ry Thought refine; - Scorn all Applause the vile Rout can bestow, - And be content to please those few who know. - Canst thou be such a vain mistaken Thing, - To wish thy Works might make a Play-house ring - With the unthinking Laughter and poor Praise - Of Fops and Ladies factious for thy Plays? - Then send a cunning Friend to learn thy Doom - From the shrewd Judges in the Drawing Room. - I've no Ambition on that idle Score, } - But say with _Betty Morris_ heretofore, } - When a Court Lady call'd her _Buckhurst_'s Whore: } - I please one Man of Wit, am proud on't too, - Let all the Coxcombs dance to Bed to you. - Should I be troubled when the purblind Knight, } - Who squints more in his Judgment, than his Sight, } - Picks silly Faults, and censures what I write? } - Or when the poor-fed Poets of the Town, - For Scraps and Coach-room cry my Verses down? - I loath the Rabble; 'tis enough for me; - If _Sedley_, _Shadwell_, _Sheppard_, _Wycherley_, - _Godolphin_, _Butler_, _Buckhurst_, _Buckingham_, } - And some few more, whom I omit to name, } - Approve my Sense, I count their Censure Fame. } - - - - -A SATIRE AGAINST MARRIAGE. - - - Husband, thou dull unpitied Miscreant, - Wedded to Noise, to Misery and Want: - Sold an eternal Vassal for thy Life, - Oblig'd to cherish, and to hate thy Wife: - Drudge on till Fifty at thy own Expence, - Breathe out thy Life in one Impertinence: - Repeat thy loath'd Embraces every Night, - Prompted to act by Duty, not Delight: - Christen thy froward Bantling once a Year, - And carefully thy spurious Issue rear: - Go once a Week to see the Brat at Nurse, - And let the young Impostor drain thy Purse: - Hedge-Sparrow-like, what Cuckows have begot, - Do thou maintain, incorrigible Sot. - O! I could curse the Pimp, (who could do less?) - He's beneath Pity, and beyond Redress. - Pox on him, let him go, what can I say? - _Anathema_'s on him are thrown away: - The Wretch is marry'd and hath known the worst; - And his great Blessing is, he can't be curst. - _Marriage!_ O Hell and Furies! name it not; - Hence, ye holy Cheats, a Plot, a Plot! - _Marriage!_ 'Tis but a licens'd Way to sin; - A Noose to catch religious Woodcocks in: - Or the Nick-Name of Love's malicious Fiend, - Begot in Hell to persecute Mankind: - 'Tis the Destroyer of our Peace and Health, - Mispender of our Time, our Strength and Wealth; - The Enemy of Valour, Wit, Mirth, all - That we can virtuous, good, or pleasant call: - By Day 'tis nothing but an endless Noise, - By Night the Eccho of forgotten Joys: - Abroad the Sport and Wonder of the Crowd, - At Home the hourly Breach of what they vow'd: - In Youth it's _Opium_ to our lustful Rage, - Which sleeps awhile, but wakes again in Age: - It heaps on all Men much, but useless Care; - For with more Trouble they less happy are. - Ye Gods! that Man, by his own Slavish Law, - Should on himself such Inconvenience draw. - If he would wiser Nature's Laws obey, - Those chalk him out a far more pleasant Way, - When lusty Youth and fragrant Wine conspire - To fan the Blood into a gen'rous Fire. - We must not think the Gallant will endure - The puissant Issue of his Calenture, - Nor always in his single Pleasures burn, - Tho' Nature's Handmaid sometimes serves the Turn: - No: He must have a sprightly, youthful Wench, - In equal Floods of Love his Flames to quench: - One that will hold him in her clasping Arms, - And in that Circle all his Spirits charms; - That with new Motion and unpractis'd Art, - Can raise his Soul, and reinsnare his Heart. - Hence spring the Noble, Fortunate, and Great, - Always begot in Passion and in Heat: - But the dull Offspring of the Marriage-Bed, - What is it! but a human Piece of Lead; - A sottish Lump ingender'd of all Ills; - Begot like Cats against their Fathers Wills. - If it be bastardis'd, 'tis doubly spoil'd, - The Mother's Fear's entail'd upon the Child. - Thus whether illegitimate, or not, - Cowards and Fools in Wedlock are begot. - Let no enabled Soul himself debase - By lawful Means to bastardise his Race; - But if he must pay Nature's Debt in Kind, - To check his eager Passion, let him find - Some willing Female out, who, tho' she be - The very Dregs and Scum of Infamy: - Tho' she be Linsey-Woolsey, Bawd, and Whore, - Close-stool to _Venus_, Nature's Common-Shore, - Impudent, Foolish, Bawdy, and Disease, - The Sunday Crack of Suburb-Prentices; - What then! She's better than a Wife by half; - And if thour't still unmarried, thou art safe. - With Whores thou canst but venture; what thou'st lost, - May be redeem'd again with Care and Cost; - But a damn'd Wife, by inevitable Fate, - Destroys Soul, Body, Credit, and Estate. - - - - -A LETTER FROM _Artemisa_ in the Town, TO _CLOE_ in the Country. - - - _Cloe_, by your Command, in Verse I write: - Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: - Such Talents better with our Sex agree, - Than lofty Flights of dangerous Poetry. - Among the Men, I mean the Men of Wit, - (At least, they past for such before they writ) - How many bold Advent'rers for the Bays, - Proudly designing large Returns of Praise; - Who durst that stormy, pathless World explore, } - Were soon dash'd back, and wreck'd on the dull Shore, } - Broke of that little Stock they had before. } - How wou'd a Woman's tott'ring Bark be tost, - Where stoutest Ships, (the Men of Wit) are lost? - When I reflect on this, I streight grow wise, - And my own self I gravely thus advise. - - Dear _Artemisa_! Poetry's a Snare: - _Bedlam_ has many Mansions; have a Care: - Your Muse diverts you, makes the Reader sad: - You think your self inspir'd, he thinks you mad: - Consider too, 'twill be discreetly done, - To make your self the Fiddle of the Town: - To find th' ill-humour'd Pleasure at their Need; - Curst when you fail, and scorn'd when you succeed. - Thus, like an arrant Woman, as I am, } - No sooner well convinc'd Writing's a Shame, } - That _Whore_ is scarce a more reproachful Name } - Than Poetess-- - Like Men that marry, or like Maids that woo, - because 'tis th' very worst thing they can do: - Pleas'd with the Contradiction, and the Sin, - Methinks I stand on Thorns till I begin. - - Y'expect to hear, at least, what Love has past - In this lewd Town, since you and I saw last; - What Change has happen'd of Intrigues, and whether - The old ones last, and who and who's together. - But how, my dearest _Cloe_, shou'd I set - My Pen to write, what I wou'd fain forget? - Or name that lost thing Love without a Tear, - Since so debauch'd by ill-bred Customs here? - Love, the most gen'rous Passion of the Mind; - The softest Refuge Innocence can find; - The safe Director of unguided Youth; - Fraught with kind Wishes, and secur'd by Truth: - That Cordial-drop Heav'n in our Cup has thrown, - To make the nauseous Draught of Life go down: - On which one only Blessing God might raise, - In Lands of Atheists, Subsidies of Praise: - For none did e'er so dull and stupid prove, - But felt a God, and bless'd his Pow'r in Love: - This only Joy, for which poor we are made, - Is grown, like Play, to be an arrant Trade: - The Rooks creep in, and it has got of late, - As many little Cheats and Tricks as that. - But, what yet more a Woman's Heart wou'd vex, - 'Tis chiefly carry'd on by our own Sex. - Our silly Sex, who, born like Monarchs, free, } - Turn Gypsies for a meaner Liberty; } - And hate Restraint, tho' but from Infamy: } - They call whatever is not common nice, } - And, deaf to Nature's Rule, or Love's Advice, } - Forsake the Pleasure to pursue the Vice. } - To an exact Perfection they have brought - The Action Love; the Passion is forgot. - 'Tis below Wit, they tell you, to admire; - And ev'n without approving, they desire. - Their private Wish obeys the publick Voice, - 'Twixt Good and Bad, Whimsey decides, not Choice. - Fashions grow up for Taste, at Forms they strike; - They know not what they wou'd have, nor what they like. - _Bovy_'s a Beauty, if some few agree } - To call him so, the rest to that Degree } - Affected are, that with their Ears they see. } - - Where I was visiting the other Night, - Comes a fine Lady with her humble Knight, - Who had prevail'd with her, thro' her own Skill, - As his Request, tho' much against his Will, - To come to _London_-- - As the Coach stopt, I heard her Voice, more loud - Than a great bellied Woman's in a Crowd; - Telling the Knight that her Affairs require - He, for some Hours, obsequiously retire. - I think she was asham'd he shou'd be seen, } - Hard Fate of Husbands! the Gallant has been, } - Tho' a diseas'd, ill-favour'd Fool, brought in. } - Dispatch, says she, the Business you pretend, - Your beastly Visit to your drunken Friend. - A Bottle ever makes you look so fine; - Methinks I long to smell you stink of Wine. - Your Country-drinking Breath's enough to kill: - Sour Ale corrected with a Lemon-Pill. - Prithee, farewel: We'll meet again anon. - The necessary Thing bows, and is gone. - She flies up Stairs, and all the Haste does show - That fifty antick Postures will allow, - And then burst out--Dear Madam, am not I - The strangest, alter'd Creature: Let me die - I find my self ridiculously grown, - Embarrast with my being out of Town - Rude and untaught like any _Indian_ Queen; - My Country Nakedness is plainly seen. - How is Love govern'd? Love that rules the State; - And pray who are the Men most worn of late? - When I was marry'd, Fools were a-la-mode; - The Men of Wit were held then incommode. - Slow of Belief, and fickle in Desire, } - Who, e'er they'll be persuaded, must enquire; } - As if they came to spy, and not to admire. } - With searching Wisdom, fatal to their Ease, - They still find out why, what may, shou'd not please: - Nay, take themselves for injur'd, when we dare - Make 'em think better of us than we are: - And, if we hide our Frailties from their Sights, - Call us deceitful Jilts, and Hypocrites: - They little guess, who at our Arts are griev'd, - The perfect Joy of being well deceiv'd. - Inquisitive, as jealous Cuckolds, grow; } - Rather than not be knowing, they will know, } - What being known, creates their certain Woe. } - Women should these, of all Mankind, avoid; - For Wonder, by clear Knowledge, is destroy'd. - Woman, who is an arrant Bird of Night, } - Bold in the dusk, before a Fool's dull sight, } - Must fly, when Reason brings the glaring Light. } - But the kind easie Fool, apt to admire } - Himself, trusts us, his Follies all conspire } - To flatter his, and favour our Desire. } - Vain of his proper Merit, he, with ease, - Believes we love him best, who best can please: - On him our gross, dull, common Flatteries pass; - Ever most happy when most made an Ass: - Heavy to apprehend; tho' all Mankind } - Perceive us false, the Fop, himself, is blind. } - Who, doating on himself,-- } - Thinks every one that sees him of his Mind. } - These are true Womens Men--here, forc'd to cease - Thro' want of Breath, not will, to hold her Peace; - She to the Window runs, where she had spy'd - Her much-esteem'd, dear Friend, the Monkey ty'd: - With forty Smiles, as many antick Bows, - As if't had been the Lady of the House - The dirty, chatt'ring Monster she embrac'd; - And made it this fine tender Speech at last. - - Kiss me, thou curious Miniature of Man; - How odd thou art, how pretty, how japan: - Oh! I could live and die with thee: Then on, - For half an Hour, in Complements she ran. - I took this Time to think what Nature meant, } - When this mixt Thing into the World she sent, } - So very wise, yet so impertinent. } - One that knows ev'ry Thing that God thought fit - Shou'd be an Ass thro' Choice, not want of Wit. - Whose Foppery, without the help of Sense, - Cou'd ne'er have rose to such an Excellence. - Nature's as lame in making a true Fop - As a Philosopher, the very Top - And Dignity of Folly we attain - By studious Search, and Labour of the Brain: - By Observation, Counsel, and deep Thought: - God never made a Coxcomb worth a Groat. - We owe that Name to Industry and Arts; - An eminent Fool must be a Fool of Parts. - And such a one was she; who had turn'd o'er - As many Books as Men; lov'd much, read more: - Had discerning Wit; to her was known - Every one's Fault, or Merit, but her own. - All the good Qualities that ever blest } - A Woman so distinguish'd from the rest, } - Except Discretion only, she possest. } - But now _Mon Cher_, dear Pug, she crys, adieu, - And the Discourse broke off, does thus renew: - You smile to see me, who the World perchance, - Mistakes to have some Wit, so far advance - The Interest of Fools, that I approve - Their Merit more than Men of Wit in Love. - But in our Sex too many Proofs there are - Of such whom Wits undo and Fools repair. - This, in my Time, was so observ'd a Rule, - Hardly a Wench in Town but had her Fool. - The meanest, common Slut, who long was grown - The Jest and Scorn of ev'ry Pit-Buffoon; - Had yet left Charms enough to have subdu'd - Some Fop or other; fond to be thought lewd. - _Foster_ could make an _Irish_ Lord a _Nokes_; - And _Betty Morris_ had her City Cokes. - A Woman's ne'er so ruin'd but she can - Be still reveng'd on her Undoer, Man: - How lost soe'er, she'll find some Lover more, - A more abandon'd Fool than she a Whore. - That wretched Thing _Corinna_, who has run - Thro' all th' several Ways of being undone: - Cozen'd at first by Love, and living then - By turning the too dear-bought Cheat on Men: - Gay were the Hours, and wing'd with Joy they flew, - When first the Town her early Beauties knew: - Courted, admir'd, and lov'd, with Presents fed; - Youth in her Looks, and Pleasure in her Bed: - 'Till Fate, or her ill Angel, thought it fit - To make her doat upon a Man of Wit: - Who found 'twas dull to love above a Day; - Made his ill-natur'd Jest, and went away. - Now scorn'd of all, forsaken and oppress'd, - She's a _Memento Mori_ to the rest: - Diseas'd, decay'd, to take up half a Crown - Must mortgage her long Scarf, and Manto Gown; - Poor Creature, who unheard of, as a Fly, - In some dark Hole must all the Winter lie: - And Want and Dirt endure a whole half Year, - That for one Month she tawdry may appear. - In _Easter_ Term she gets her a new Gown; - When my young Master's Worship comes to Town: - From Pedagogue and Mother just set free; - The Heir and Hopes of a great Family: - Who with strong Beer and Beef the Country rules; - And ever since the Conquest have been Fools: - And now with careful Prospect to maintain - This Character, lest crossing of the Strain - Shou'd mend the Booby-breed; his Friends provide - A Cousin of his own to be his Bride: - And thus set out-- - With an Estate, no Wit, and a young Wife: - The sole Comforts of a Coxcomb's Life: - Dunghil and Pease forsook, he comes to Town, - Turns Spark, learns to be lewd, and is undone: - Nothing suits worse with Vice than want of Sense: - Fools are still wicked at their own Expence. - This o'er-grown School-Boy lost _Corinna_ wins; - At the first dash to make an Ass begins: - Pretends to like a Man that has not known - The Vanities or Vices of the Town: - Fresh in his Youth, and faithful in his Love, - Eager of Joys which he does seldom prove: - Healthful and strong, he does no Pains endure, - But what the Fair One he adores can cure. - Grateful for Favours does the Sex esteem, - And libels none for being kind to him. - Then of the Lewdness of the Town complains, - Rails at the Wits and Atheists, and maintains - 'Tis better than good Sense, than Pow'r or Wealth, - To have a Blood untainted, Youth and Health. - The unbred Puppy who had never seen - A Creature look so gay, or talk so fine; - Believes, then falls in Love, and then in Debt: - Mortgages all, ev'n to the ancient Seat, - To buy his Mistress a new House for Life: - To give her Plate and Jewels robs his Wife. - And when to th' Heighth of Fondness he is grown, - 'Tis Time to poison him, and all's her own. - Thus meeting in her common Arms his Fate, - He leaves her Bastard-Heir to his Estate: - And as the Race of such an Owl deserves, - His own dull lawful Progeny he starves. - Nature (that never made a Thing in vain, - But does each Insect to some End ordain) - Wisely provokes kind-keeping Fools, no doubt, - To patch up Vices Men of Wit wear out. - - Thus she ran on two Hours, some Grains of Sense - Still mixt with Follies of Impertinence. - But now 'tis Time I shou'd some Pity show } - To _Cloe_, since I cannot chuse but know, } - Readers must reap what dullest Writers sow. } - By the next Post I will such Stories tell, - As, join'd to these, shall to a Volume swell; - As true as Heaven, more infamous than Hell: - But you are tir'd, and so am I. - - _Farewel._ - - - - -An EPISTOLARY ESSAY From _M.G._ to _O.B._ Upon their mutual POEMS. - - -Dear Friend, - - I hear this Town does so abound - With saucy Censurers, that Faults are found - With what of late we (in poetick Rage) - Bestowing threw away on the dull Age. - But (howsoe'er Envy their Spleens may raise, - To rob my Brows of the deserved Bays) - Their Thanks at least I merit; since thro' me - They are Partakers of your Poetry: - And this is all I'll say in my Defence, } - T'obtain one Line of your well-worded Sence, } - I'll be content t'have writ the _British_ Prince. } - I'm none of those who think themselves inspir'd - Nor write with the vain Hope to be admir'd; - But from a Rule I have (upon long Trial) - T'avoid with Care all sort of Self-denial. - Which way soe'er Desire and Fancy lead, - (Contemning Fame) that Path I boldly tread; - And if exposing what I take for Wit, } - To my dear self a Pleasure I beget, } - No Matter tho' the cens'ring Criticks fret. } - These whom my Muse displeases are at Strife, - With equal Spleen against my Course of Life, - The least Delight of which I'll not forego, - For all the flatt'ring Praise Man can bestow. - If I design'd to please, the Way were then - To mend my Manners, rather than my Pen: - The first's unnatural, therefore unfit; } - And for the second, I despair of it, } - Since Grace is not so hard to get as Wit. } - Perhaps ill Verses ought to be confin'd - In meer good Breeding, like unsav'ry Wind, - Were reading forc'd, I shou'd be apt to think, - Men might no more write scurvily than stink: - But 'tis your Choice, whether you'll read, or no. - If likewise of your Smelling it were so, - I'd fart just as I write, for my own Ease, - Nor shou'd you be concern'd unless you please. - I'll own that you write better than I do, - But I have as much need to write as you. - What tho' the Excrements of my dull Brain, - Flows in a harsh and an insipid Strain; - While your rich Head eases it self of Wit, - Must none but Civet Cats have leave to shit? - In all I write, shou'd Sense, and Wit, and Rhime - Fail me at once, yet something so sublime, - Shall stamp my Poem, that the World may see, - It cou'd have been produc'd by none but me. - And that's my End; for Man can wish no more - Than so to write, as none e'er writ before. - Yet why am I no Poet of the Times? - I have Allusions, Similes, and Rhimes, - And Wit; or else 'tis hard that I alone, - Of the whole Race of Mankind shou'd have none. - Unequally the partial Hand of Heav'n, - Has all but this one only Blessing giv'n. - The World appears like a great Family, - Whose Lord, oppress'd with Pride and Poverty, - (That to a few great Bounty he may show) - Is fain to starve the num'rous Train below: - Just so seems Providence, as poor and vain, - Keeping more Creatures than it can maintain: - Here 'tis profuse, and there it meanly saves, - And for one Prince it makes ten thousand Slaves. - In Wit, alone, 't has been Magnificent, } - Of which so just a Share to each is sent, } - That the most avaricious are content. } - For none e'er thought (the due Division's such) - His own too little, or his Friends too much. - Yet most Men shew, or find, great want of Wit, - Writing themselves, or judging what is writ. - But I who am of sprightly Vigour full, - Look on Mankind, as envious, and dull. - Born to my self, I like my self alone; - And must conclude my Judgment good, or none: - For cou'd my Sense be naught, how shou'd I know - Whether another Man's were good or no, - Thus I resolve of my own Poetry, - That 'tis the best; and there's a Fame for me. - If then I'm happy, what does it advance - Whether to Merit due, or Arrogance? - Oh! but the World will take Offence hereby: - Why then the World shall suffer for't, not I. - Did e'er this saucy World and I agree, - To let it have its beastly Will on me? - Why shou'd my prostituted Sense be drawn, - To ev'ry Rule their musty Customs spawn? - But Men may censure you, 'tis two to one - Whene'er they censure they'll be in the wrong. - There's not a thing on Earth, that I can name, - So foolish, and so false, as common Fame: - It calls the Courtier Knave; the plain Man rude; - Haughty the Grave; and the Delightful lewd; - Impertinent the Brisk; morose the Sad; - Mean the Familiar; the Reserv'd one mad. - Poor helpless Woman, is not favour'd more, - She's a sly Hypocrite, or publick Whore. - Then who the Dev'l wou'd give this to be free - From th' innocent Reproach of Infamy. - These Things consider'd, make me, in despite - Of idle Rumour, keep at home and write. - - - - -THE _Maim'd Debauchee_. - - - I. - - As some brave Admiral in former War - Depriv'd of Force, but prest with Courage still, - Two rival Fleets appearing from afar, - Crawls to the Top of an adjacent Hill. - - - II. - - From whence (with Thoughts full of Concern) he views - The wise, and daring Conduct, of the Fight: - And each bold Action to his Mind renews, - His present Glory, and his past Delight. - - - III. - - From his fierce Eyes flashes of Rage he throws, - As from black Clouds when Lightning breaks away, - Transported thinks himself amidst his Foes, - And absent yet enjoys the bloody Day. - - - IV. - - So when my Days of Impotence approach, - And I'm by Love and Wine's unlucky Chance, - Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of Debauch, - On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance. - - - V. - - My Pains at last some Respite shall afford, - While I behold the Battels you maintain; - When Fleets of Glasses sail around the Board, - From whose Broad-sides Vollies of Wit shall rain. - - - VI. - - Nor shall the Sight of honourable Scars, - Which my too forward Valour did procure, - Frighten new-listed Soldiers from the Wars, - Past Joys have more than paid what I endure. - - - VII. - - Shou'd some brave Youth (worth being drunk) prove nice, - And from his fair Inviter meanly shrink, - 'Twould please the Ghost of my departed Vice, - If at my Counsel he repent and drink. - - - VIII. - - Or shou'd some cold complexion'd Sot forbid, - With his dull Morals, our Nights brisk Alarms, - I'll fire his Blood by telling what I did, - When I was strong, and able to bear Arms. - - - IX. - - I'll tell of Whores attack'd their Lords at home, - Bawds Quarters beaten up, and Fortress won; - Windows demolish'd, Watches overcome, - And handsome Ills by my Contrivance done. - - - X. - - With Tales like these I will such Heat inspire. - As to important Mischief shall incline; - I'll make him long some ancient Church to fire, - And fear no Lewdness they're call'd to by Wine. - - - XI. - - Thus Statesman-like I'll saucily impose, - And safe from Danger valianly advise; - Shelter'd in Impotence urge you to Blows, - And being good for nothing else be wise. - - - - -Upon _NOTHING_. - - - I. - - _Nothing!_ thou elder Brother ev'n to Shade, - Thou hadst a Being e'er the World was made, - And (well fix'd) art alone, of ending not afraid. - - - II. - - E'er Time and Place were, Time and Place were not, - When primitive _Nothing_ something straight begot, - Then all proceeded from the great united--What. - - - III. - - Something the gen'ral Attribute of all, - Sever'd from thee, it's sole Original, - Into thy boundless self must undistinguish'd fall. - - - IV. - - Yet something did thy mighty Pow'r command, - And from thy fruitful Emptiness's Hand, - Snatch'd Men, Beasts, Birds, Fire, Air, and Land. - - - V. - - Matter, the wicked'st Off-spring of thy Race, - By Form assisted, flew from thy Embrace, - And rebel Light obscur'd thy rev'rend dusky Face. - - - VI. - - With Form and Matter, Time, and Place did join, - Body, thy Foe, with thee did Leagues combine - To spoil thy peaceful Realm, and ruin all thy Line. - - - VII. - - But turn-coat Time assists the Foe in vain, - And, brib'd by thee, assists thy short-liv'd Reign. - And to thy hungry Womb drives back thy Slaves again. - - - VIII. - - Tho' Mysteries are barr'd from Laick Eyes, - And the Divine alone, with Warrant, pries - Into thy Bosom, where the Truth in private lies. - - - IX. - - Yet this of thee the Wise may freely say, - Thou from the Virtuous nothing tak'st away, - And to be part with thee the Wicked wisely pray. - - - X. - - Great Negative, how vainly wou'd the Wise - Enquire, define, distinguish, teach, devise? - Didst thou not stand to point their dull Philosophies. - - - XI. - - _Is_, or _is not_, the two great Ends of Fate, - And, true or false, the Subject of Debate, - That perfect, or destroy, the vast Designs of Fate. - - - XII. - - When they have rack'd the Politician's Breast, - Within thy Bosom most securely rest, - And, when reduc'd to thee, are least unsafe and best. - - - XIII. - - But, _Nothing_, why does _Something_ still permit, - That sacred Monarchs should at Council sit, - With Persons highly thought at best for nothing fit. - - - XIV. - - Whilst weighty _Something_ modestly abstains, - From Princes Coffers, and from Statesmens Brains, - And nothing there like stately _Nothing_ reigns. - - - XV. - - _Nothing_, who dwell'st with Fools in grave Disguise, - For whom they rev'rend Shapes and Forms devise, - Lawn Sleeves, and Furs, and Gowns, when they like thee look wise. - - - XVI. - - _French_ Truth, _Dutch_ Prowess, _British_ Policy, - _Hibernian_ Learning, _Scotch_ Civility, - _Spaniards_ Dispatch, _Danes_ Wit, are mainly seen in thee. - - - XVII. - - The Great Man's Gratitude to his best Friend, - King's Promises, Whores Vows tow'rds thee they bend, - Flow swiftly into thee, and in thee ever end. - - - - -The ADVICE. - - - All Things submit themselves to your Command, - Fair _Cælia_, when it does not Love withstand: - The Pow'r it borrows from your Eyes alone; - All but the God must yield to, who has none. - Were he not blind, such are the Charms you have, - He'd quit his Godhead to become your Slave: - Be proud to act a mortal Hero's Part, - And throw himself for Fame on his own Dart. - But Fate has otherwise dispos'd of Things, - In different Bands subjected Slaves and Kings: - Fetter'd in Forms of Royal State are they, - While we enjoy the Freedom to obey. - That Fate like you resistless does ordain, - To Love, that over Beauty he shall reign. - By Harmony the Universe does move, - And what is Harmony but mutual Love? - Who would resist an Empire so divine, - Which universal Nature does enjoin? - See gentle Brooks, how quietly they glide, - Kissing the rugged Banks on either Side. - While in their Crystal Streams at once they show, - And with them feed the Flow'rs which they bestow: - Tho' rudely throng'd by a too near Embrace, - In gentle Murmurs they keep on their Pace - To the lov'd Sea; for Streams have their Desires; - Cool as they are, they feel Love's powerful Fires; - And with such Passion, that if any Force - Stop or molest them in their amorous Course; - They swell, break down with Rage, and ravage o'er - The Banks they kiss'd, and Flow'rs they fed before. - Submit then, _Cælia_, e'er you be reduc'd; - For Rebels, vanquish'd once, are vilely us'd. - Beauty's no more but the dead Soil, which Love - Manures, and does by wise Commerce improve: - Sailing by Sighs, thro' Seas of Tears, he sends - Courtships from foreign Hearts, for your own Ends: - Cherish the Trade, for as with _Indians_ we - Get Gold and Jewels for our Trumpery: - So to each other for their useless Toys, - Lovers afford whole Magazines of Joys. - But if you're fond of Baubles, be, and starve, - Your Guegaw Reputation still preserve: - Live upon Modesty and empty Fame, - Foregoing Sense for a fantastick Name. - - - - -The DISCOVERY. - - - _Cælia_, that faithful Servant you disown, - Would in Obedience keep his Love his own: - But bright Ideas, such as you inspire, - We can no more conceal, than not admire. - My Heart at home in my own Breast did dwell, - Like humble Hermit in a peaceful Cell. - Unknown and undisturb'd it rested there, - Stranger alike to Hope and to Despair. - Now Love with a tumultuous Train invades - The sacred Quiet of those hollow'd Shades. - His fatal Flames shine out to ev'ry Eye, - Like blazing Comets in a Winter Sky. - How can my Passion merit your Offence, - That challenges so little Recompence? - For I am one, born only to admire; - Too humble e'er to hope, scarce to desire. - A Thing whose Bliss depends upon your Will, - Who wou'd be proud you'd deign to use him ill. - Then give me leave to glory in my Chain, - My fruitless Sighs, and my unpitied Pain. - Let me but ever Love, and ever be - Th' Example of your Pow'r and Cruelty. - Since so much Scorn does in your Breast reside, - Be more indulgent to its Mother Pride. - Kill all you strike, and trample on their Graves; - But own the Fates of your neglected Slaves: - When in the Croud yours undistinguish'd lies, - You give away the Triumph of your Eyes. - Perhaps (obtaining this) you'll think I find - More Mercy than your Anger has design'd: - But Love has carefully design'd for me, - The last Perfection of Misery. - For to my State the Hopes of Common Peace, - Which ev'ry Wretch enjoys in Death, must cease: - My worst of Fates attend me in my Grave, - Since, dying, I must be no more your Slave. - - - - -THE NINTH ELEGY, In the Second Book of _Ovid_'s Amours, translated. - -_To LOVE._ - - - O Love! how cold and slow to take my part? - Thou idle Wanderer about my Heart: - Why, thy old faithful Soldier, wilt thou see - Oppress'd in thy own Tents? They murther me. - Thy Flames consume, thy Arrows pierce thy Friends: - Rather on Foes pursue more noble Ends. - _Achilles_ Sword would certainly bestow - A Cure, as certain as it gave the Blow. - Hunters, who follow flying Game, give o'er - When the Prey's caught, Hopes still lead on before. - We thine own Slaves feel thy tyrannick Blows, - Whilst thy tame Hand's unmov'd against thy Foes. - On Men disarm'd, how can you gallant prove? - And I was long ago disarm'd by Love. - Millions of dull Men live, and scornful Maids: - We'll own Love valiant when he these invades. - _Rome_ from each Corner of the wide World snatch'd - A Laurel, or't had been to this Day thatch'd. - But the old Soldier has his resting Place; - And the good batter'd Horse is turn'd to Grass: - The harrass'd Whore, who liv'd a Wretch to please, - Has leave to be a Bawd, and take her Ease. - For me then, who have truly spent my Blood - (Love) in thy Service; and so boldly stood - In _Cælia_'s Trenches; were't not wisely done, - E'en to retire, and live in Peace at home? - No--might I gain a Godhead to disclaim - My glorious Title to my endless Flame: - _Divinity_ with Scorn I wou'd forswear - Such sweet, dear, tempting Devils _Women_ are. - Whene'er those Flames grow faint, I quickly find - A fierce, black Storm pour down upon my Mind: - Headlong I'm hurl'd like Horsemen, who, in vain, - Their (Fury-flaming) Coursers would restrain. - As Ships, just when the Harbour they attain, - Are snatch'd by sudden Blasts to Sea again: - So Love's fantastick Storms reduce my Heart - Half rescu'd, and the God resumes his Dart. - Strike here, this undefended Bosom wound, - And for so brave a Conquest be renown'd. - Shafts fly so fast to me from ev'ry Part, - You'll scarce discern the Quiver from my Heart. - What Wretch can bear a live-long Night's dull Rest? - Fool--is not Sleep the Image of pale Death? - There's time for Rest, when Fate hath stopt your Breath. - Me may my soft deluding Dear deceive; - I'm happy in my Hopes while I believe. - Now let her flatter, then as fondly chide: - Often may I enjoy; oft be deny'd. - With doubtful Steps the God of War does move - By the Example, in ambiguous Love. - Blown to and fro like Down from thy own Wing; - Who knows when Joy or Anguish thou wilt bring: - Yet at thy Mother's and thy Slave's Request, - Fix an eternal Empire in my Breast: - And let th' inconstant, charming, Sex, - Whose wilful Scorn does Lovers vex, - Submit their Hearts before thy Throne: - The Vassal World is then thy own. - - - - -_Woman's HONOUR._ - -A SONG. - - - I. - - _Love_ bid me hope, and I obey'd; - _Phillis_ continu'd still unkind: - Then you may e'en despair, he said, - In vain I strive to change her Mind. - - - II. - - _Honour's_ got in, and keeps her Heart; - Durst he but venture once abroad, - In my own Right I'd take your part, - And shew my self a mightier _God_. - - - III. - - This huffing _Honour_ domineers - In Breasts, where he alone has place: - But if true gen'rous _Love_ appears, - The Hector dares not shew his Face. - - - IV. - - Let me still languish, and complain, - Be most inhumanly deny'd: - I have some Pleasure in my Pain, - She can have none with all her Pride. - - - V. - - I fall a Sacrifice to _Love_, - She lives a Wretch for _Honour_'s sake; - Whose Tyrant does most cruel prove, - The Difference is not hard to make. - - - VI. - - Consider _Real Honour_ then, - You'll find _Hers_ cannot be the same, - 'Tis noble Confidence in Men, - In Women mean mistrustful Shame. - - - - -_Grecian_ KINDNESS. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - The utmost Grace the _Greeks_ could shew, - When to the _Trojans_ they grew kind, - Was with their Arms to let 'em go, - And leave their lingring Wives behind. - They beat the Men, and burnt the Town, - Then all the Baggage was their own. - - - II. - - There the kind Deity of Wine - Kiss'd the soft wanton God of Love; - This clapt his Wings, that press'd his Vine, - And their best Pow'rs united move. - While each brave _Greek_ embrac'd his Punk, - Lull'd her asleep, and then grew drunk. - - - - -The MISTRESS. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - An Age in her Embraces past, - Would seem a Winter's Day; - Where Life and Light with envious haste, - Are torn and snatch'd away. - - - II. - - But, oh! how slowly Minutes roul, - When absent from her Eyes; - That fed my Love, which is my Soul, - It languishes and dies. - - - III. - - For then no more a Soul but Shade, - It mournfully does move; - And haunts my Breast, by Absence made - The living Tomb of Love. - - - IV. - - You wiser Men despise me not; - Whose Love-sick Fancy raves, - On Shades of Souls, and Heav'n knows what; - Short Ages live in Graves. - - - V. - - Whene'er those wounding Eyes, so full - Of Sweetness, you did see; - Had you not been profoundly dull, - You had gone mad like me. - - - VI. - - Nor censure us, you who perceive - My best belov'd and me, - Sigh and lament, complain and grieve, - You think we disagree. - - - VII. - - Alas! 'tis sacred Jealousie, - Love rais'd to an Extream; - The only Proof 'twixt them and me, - We love, and do not dream. - - - VIII. - - Fantastick Fancies fondly move; - And in frail Joys believe: - Taking false Pleasure for true Love; - But Pain can ne'er deceive. - - - IX. - - Kind jealous Doubts, tormenting Fears, - And anxious Cares, when past; - Prove our Hearts Treasure fix'd and dear, - And make us blest at last. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - Absent from thee I languish still; - Then ask me not, When I return? - The straying Fool 'twill plainly kill, - To wish all Day, all Night to mourn. - - - II. - - _Dear_, from thine Arms then let me fly, - That my fantastick Mind may prove, - The Torments it deserves to try, - That tears my fix, Heart from my Love. - - - III. - - When wearied with a World of Woe, - To thy safe Bosom I retire, - Where Love and Peace and Truth does flow, - May I contented there expire. - - - IV. - - Left once more wandring from that Heav'n, - I fall on some base Heart unblest; - Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, - And lose my everlasting Rest. - - - - -To _CORINNA_. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - What cruel Pains _Corinna_ takes, - To force that harmless Frown: - When not one Charm her Face forsakes, - Love cannot lose his own. - - - II. - - So sweet a Face, so soft a Heart, - Such Eyes so very kind, - Betray, alas! the silly Art - Virtue had ill design'd. - - - III. - - Poor feeble Tyrant! who in vain - Would proudly take upon her, - Against kind Nature to maintain - Affected Rules of Honour. - - - IV. - - The Scorn she bears so helpless proves, - When I plead Passion to her, - That much she fears, (but more she loves,) - Her Vassal should undo her. - - - - -_A young Lady to her ancient Lover._ - -A SONG. - - - I. - - Ancient Person, for whom I - All the flatt'ring Youth defie; - Long be it e're thou grow old, - Aking, shaking, crasie, cold. - But still continue as thou art, - _Ancient Person of my Heart_. - - - II. - - On thy withered Lips and dry, - Which like barren Furrows lie; - Brooding Kisses I will pour, - Shall thy youthful Heart restore. - Such Kind Show'rs in Autumn fall, - And a second Spring recal: - Nor from thee will ever part, - _Ancient Person of my Heart_. - - - III. - - Thy nobler Part, which but to name, - In our Sex wou'd be counted Shame, - By Ages frozen grasp possess'd - From their Ice shall be releas'd: - And, sooth'd by my reviving Hand, - In former Warmth and Vigour stand. - All a Lover's Wish can reach, - For thy Joy my Love shall teach: - And for thy Pleasure shall improve - All that Art can add to Love, - Yet still I love thee without Art, - _Ancient Person of my Heart_. - - - - -To a LADY: IN A LETTER. A SONG. - - - I. - - Such perfect Bliss, fair _Chloris_, we - In our Enjoyment prove: - 'Tis pity restless Jealousie - Should mingle with our Love. - - - II. - - Let us, since Wit has taught us how, - Raise Pleasure to the top: - You rival Bottle must allow, - I'll suffer rival Fop. - - - III. - - Think not in this that I design - A Treason 'gainst Love's Charms, - When following the God of Wine, - I leave my _Chloris_ Arms. - - - IV. - - Since you have that, for all your Haste, - At which I'll ne'er repine, - Its Pleasure can repeat as fast, - As I the Joys of Wine. - - - V. - - There's not a brisk insipid Spark, - That flutters in the Town: - But with your wanton Eyes you mark - Him out to be your own. - - - VI. - - Nor do you think it worth your Care, - How empty, and how dull, - The Head of your Admirers are, - So that their Veins be full. - - - VII. - - All this you freely may confess, - Yet we ne'er disagree: - For did you love your Pleasure less, - You were no Match for me. - - - - -The FALL. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - How blest was the Created State - Of Man and Woman e're they fell, - Compar'd to our unhappy Fate, - We need not fear another Hell! - - - II. - - Naked, beneath cool Shades, they lay, - Enjoyment waited on Desire: - Each Member did their Wills obey, - Nor could a Wish set Pleasure higher. - - - III. - - But we, poor Slaves, to Hope and Fear, - Are never of our Joys secure; - They lessen still, as they draw near, - And none but dull Delights endure. - - - IV. - - Then, _Chloris_, while I Duty pay, - The nobler Tribute of my Heart, - Be not you so severe to say, - You love me for a frailer Part. - - - - -_LOVE_ and _LIFE_. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - All my past Life is mine no more, - The flying Hours are gone: - Like transitory Dreams giv'n o'er, - Whose Images are kept in store, - By Memory alone. - - - II. - - The Time that is to come is not; - How can it then be mine? - The present Moment's all my Lot; - And that, as fast as it is got, - _Phillis_, is only thine. - - - III. - - Then talk not of Inconstancy, - False Hearts, and broken Vows; - If I, by Miracle, can be - This live long Minute true to thee, - 'Tis all that Heav'n allows. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - While on those lovely Looks I gaze, - To see a Wretch pursuing; - In Raptures of a blest Amaze, - His pleasing happy Ruin; - 'Tis not for pity that I move; - His Fate is to aspiring, - Whose Heart, broke with a Load of Love, - Dies wishing and admiring. - - - II. - - But if this Murder you'd forego, - Your Slave from Death removing; - Let me your Art of Charming know, - Or learn you mine of loving. - But whether Life, or Death, betide, - In Love it's equal Measure, - The Victor lives with empty Pride; - The Vanquish'd die with Pleasure. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - Love a Woman! you're an Ass, - 'Tis a most insipid Passion; - To chuse out for your Happiness, - The silliest Part of God's Creation. - - - II. - - Let the Porter, and the Groom, - Things design'd for dirty Slaves; - Drudge in fair _Aurelia_'s Womb, - To get Supplies for Age and Graves. - - - III. - - Farewel, Woman, I intend, - Henceforth, ev'ry Night to sit - With my lewd well-natur'd Friend, - Drinking to engender Wit. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - To this moment a Rebel, I throw down my Arms, - Great _Love_, at first Sight of _Olinda_'s bright Charms: - Made proud, and secure by such Forces as these, - You may now play the Tyrant as soon as you please. - - - II. - - When Innocence, Beauty, and Wit do conspire, - To betray, and engage, and inflame my Desire, - Why should I decline what I cannot avoid, - And let pleasing Hope by base Fear be destroy'd? - - - III. - - Her Innocence cannot contrive to undo me, - Her Beauty's inclin'd, or why shou'd it pursue me? - And Wit has to Pleasure been ever a Friend, - Then what room for Despair since Delight is _Love_'s End. - - - IV. - - There can be no danger in Sweetness and Youth, - Where Love is secur'd by Good-nature and Truth: - On her Beauty I'll gaze, and of Pleasure complain; - While every kind Look adds a Link to my Chain. - - - V. - - 'Tis more to maintain, than it was to surprize, - But her Wit leads in Triumph the Slave of her Eyes: - I beheld, with the Loss of my Freedom before, - But hearing, for ever must serve and adore. - - - VI. - - Too bright is my Goddess, her Temple too weak: - Retire, Divine Image! I feel my Heart break. - Help, _Love_, I dissolve in a Rapture of Charms; - At the thought of those Joys I shou'd meet in her Arms. - - - - -Upon his leaving his _MISTRESS_. - - - I. - - 'Tis not that I am weary grown - Of being yours, and yours alone: - But with what Face can I incline, - To damn you to be only mine? - You, whom some kinder Pow'r did fashion, } - By Merit, and by Inclination, } - The Joy at least of a whole Nation. } - - - II. - - Let meaner Spirits of your Sex, - With humble Aims their Thoughts perplex: - And boast, if, by their Arts they can - Contrive to make _one_ happy Man. - While, mov'd by an impartial Sense, } - Favours, like Nature you dispense, } - With universal Influence. } - - - III. - - See the kind Seed-receiving Earth, - To ev'ry Grain affords a Birth: - On her no Show'rs unwelcom fall, - Her willing Womb retains 'em all. - And shall my _Cælia_ be confin'd? } - No, live up to thy mighty Mind; } - And be the Mistress of Mankind. } - - - - -Upon drinking in a BOWL. - - -I. - - _Vulcan_ contrive me such a Cup - As _Nestor_ us'd of old: - Shew all thy Skill to trim it up; - Damask it round with Gold. - - - II. - - Make it so large that, fill'd with Sack - Up to the swelling Brim, - Vast Toasts on the delicious Lake, - Like Ships at Sea, may swim. - - - III. - - Engrave not Battel on his Cheek; - With War I've nought to do: - I'm none of those that took _Mastrick_, - Nor _Yarmouth_ Leaguer knew. - - - IV. - - Let it no Name of Planets tell, - Fixt Stars, or Constellations: - For I am no Sir _Sindrophel_, - Nor none of his Relations. - - - V. - - But carve thereon a spreading Vine; - Then add two lovely Boys; - Their Limbs in amorious Folds intwine, - The Type of future Joys. - - - VI. - - _Cupid_ and _Bacchus_ my Saints are; - May Drink and Love still reign: - With Wine I wash away my Cares, - And then to Love again. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - As _Chloris_ full of harmless Thoughts - Beneath a Willow lay, - Kind Love a youthful Shepherd brought, - To pass the Time away. - - - II. - - She blusht to be encounter'd so, - And chid the amorous Swain: - But as she strove to rise and go, - He pull'd her down again. - - - III. - - A sudden Passion seized her Heart, - In spight of her Disdain; - She found a Pulse in ev'ry Part, - And Love in ev'ry Vein. - - - IV. - - Ah, Youth! (said she) what Charms are these, - That conquer and surprize? - Ah! let me--for unless you please, - I have no Power to rise. - - - V. - - She fainting spoke, and trembling lay, - For fear he should comply - Her lovely Eyes her Heart betray, - And give her Tongue the Lye. - - - VI. - - Thus she whom Princes had deny'd, - With all their Pomp and Train; - Was, in the lucky Minute, try'd, - And yielded to a Swain. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - Give me leave to rail at you, - I ask nothing but my due; - To call you false, and then to say - You shall not keep my Heart a Day: - But, alas! against my Will, - I must be your Captive still. - Ah! be kinder then; for I - Cannot change, and would not die. - - - II. - - Kindness has resistless Charms, - All besides but weakly move; - Fiercest Anger it disarms, - And clips the Wings of flying Love. - Beauty does the Heart invade, - Kindness only can persuade; - It gilds the Lover's servile Chain, - And makes the Slaves grow pleas'd again. - - - - -The _ANSWER_. - - - I. - - Nothing adds to your fond Fire - More than Scorn, and cold Disdain: - I, to cherish your Desire, - Kindness us'd, but 'twas in vain. - - - II. - - You insisted on your Slave, - Humble Love you soon refus'd: - Hope not then a Pow'r to have, - Which ingloriously you us'd. - - - III. - - Think not, _Thirsis_, I will e're, - By my Love my Empire lose: - You grow constant through Dispair, - Love return'd you wou'd abuse. - - - IV. - - Though you still possess my Heart, - Scorn and Rigour I must feign: - Ah! forgive that only Art, - Love has left your Love to gain. - - - V. - - You that could my Heart subdue, - To new Conquests ne'er pretend: - Let the Example make me true, - And of a conquer'd Foe a Friend. - - - VI. - - Then, if e'er I should complain - Of your Empire, or my Chain, - Summon all the powerful Charms, - And kill the Rebel in your Arms. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - Fair _Chloris_ in a Pig-Sty lay, - Her tender Herd lay by her: - She slept, in murmuring Gruntlings they, - Complaining of the scorching Day, - Her Slumbers thus inspire. - - - II. - - She dreamt, while she with careful Pains, - Her snowy Arms employ'd, - In Ivory Pails to fill out Grains, - One of her Love-convicted Swains, - Thus hastning to her cry'd: - - - III. - - Fly, Nymph, oh! fly, e're 'tis too late, - A dear-lov'd Life to save: - Rescue your Bosom Pig from Fate, - Who now expires, hung in the Gate - That leads to yonder Cave. - - - IV. - - My self had try'd to set him free, - Rather than brought the News: - But I am so abhorr'd by thee, - That ev'n thy Darling's Life from me, - I know thou wou'dst refuse. - - - V. - - Struck with the News, as quick she flies - As Blushes to her Face: - Not the bright Lightning from the Skies, - Nor Love, shot from her brighter Eyes, - Move half so swift a pace. - - - VI. - - This Plot, it seems, the lustful Slave - Had laid against her Honour: - Which not one God took care to save, - For he persues her to the Cave, - And throws himself upon her. - - - VII. - - Now pierced is her Virgin Zone, - She feels the Foe within it; - She hears a broken amorous Groan, - The panting Lover's fainting Moan, - Just in the happy Minute. - - - VIII. - - Frighted she wakes, and waking sighs, - Nature thus kindly eas'd, - In Dreams rais'd by her murm'ring Pigs, - And her own Th--b between her L--gs, - She's innocently pleas'd. - - - - -CONSTANCY. - -A SONG. - - - I. - - I cannot change, as others do, - Though you unjustly scorn: - Since that poor Swain that sighs for you, - For you alone was born. - No, _Phillis_, no, your Heart to move - A surer way I'll try: - And to revenge my slighted Love, - Will still love on, will still love on, and die. - - - II. - - When, kill'd with Grief, _Amintas_ lies; - And you to mind shall call, - The Sighs that now unpitied rise, - The Tears that vainly fall. - That welcome Hour that ends this Smart, - Will then begin your Pain; - For such a faithful tender Heart - Can never break, can never break in vain. - - - - -A SONG. - - - I. - - My dear Mistress has a Heart - Soft as those kind Looks she gave me, - When with Love's resistless Art, - And her Eyes, she did enslave me. - But her Constancy's so weak, - She's so wild, and apt to wander; - That my jealous Heart wou'd break, - Should we live one Day asunder. - - - II. - - Melting Joys about her move, - Killing Pleasures, wounding Blisses; - She can dress her Eyes in Love, - And her Lips can arm with Kisses. - Angels listen when she speaks, - She's my Delight, all Mankind wonder: - But my jealous Heart would break, - Should we live one Day asunder. - - -_FINIS._ - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of the Right Honourable John -Earl of Rochester, by John Wilmot - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - -***** This file should be named 44891-8.txt or 44891-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/8/9/44891/ - -Produced by Mark C. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester - Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems - -Author: John Wilmot - -Release Date: February 13, 2014 [EBook #44891] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - - - - -Produced by Mark C. Orton, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -book was produced from scanned images of public domain -material from the Google Print project.) - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44891 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p>Transcriber's Note:</p> @@ -1554,7 +1515,7 @@ Upon their mutual POEMS.</a></h2> <div class="center"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">All Things submit themselves to your Command,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Fair <i>Cælia</i>, when it does not Love withstand:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fair <i>Cælia</i>, when it does not Love withstand:<br /></span> <span class="i0">The Pow’r it borrows from your Eyes alone;<br /></span> <span class="i0">All but the God must yield to, who has none.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Were he not blind, such are the Charms you have,<br /></span> @@ -1583,7 +1544,7 @@ Upon their mutual POEMS.</a></h2> <span class="i0">Stop or molest them in their amorous Course;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> <span class="i0">They swell, break down with Rage, and ravage o’er<br /></span> <span class="i0">The Banks they kiss’d, and Flow’rs they fed before.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Submit then, <i>Cælia</i>, e’er you be reduc’d;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Submit then, <i>Cælia</i>, e’er you be reduc’d;<br /></span> <span class="i0">For Rebels, vanquish’d once, are vilely us’d.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Beauty’s no more but the dead Soil, which Love<br /></span> <span class="i0">Manures, and does by wise Commerce improve:<br /></span> @@ -1605,7 +1566,7 @@ Upon their mutual POEMS.</a></h2> <h2><a name="Poem_10" id="Poem_10">The DISCOVERY.</a></h2> <div class="center"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><i>Cælia</i>, that faithful Servant you disown,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Cælia</i>, that faithful Servant you disown,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Would in Obedience keep his Love his own:<br /></span> <span class="i0">But bright Ideas, such as you inspire,<br /></span> <span class="i0">We can no more conceal, than not admire.<br /></span> @@ -1677,7 +1638,7 @@ Amours, translated.</a><br /> <span class="i0">Has leave to be a Bawd, and take her Ease.<br /></span> <span class="i0">For me then, who have truly spent my Blood<br /></span> <span class="i0">(Love) in thy Service; and so boldly stood<br /></span> -<span class="i0">In <i>Cælia</i>’s Trenches; were’t not wisely done,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In <i>Cælia</i>’s Trenches; were’t not wisely done,<br /></span> <span class="i0">E’en to retire, and live in Peace at home?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> <span class="i0">No—might I gain a Godhead to disclaim<br /></span> <span class="i0">My glorious Title to my endless Flame:<br /></span> @@ -2233,7 +2194,7 @@ A SONG.</h2> <span class="i0">To ev’ry Grain affords a Birth:<br /></span> <span class="i0">On her no Show’rs unwelcom fall,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Her willing Womb retains ’em all.<br /></span> -<div><div class="linegroup"><span class="i0">And shall my <i>Cælia</i> be confin’d?<br /></span> +<div><div class="linegroup"><span class="i0">And shall my <i>Cælia</i> be confin’d?<br /></span> <span class="i0">No, live up to thy mighty Mind;<br /></span> <span class="i0">And be the Mistress of Mankind.<br /></span></div> <div class="brace"><div>⎫</div><div>⎬</div><div>⎭</div></div></div> @@ -2548,384 +2509,6 @@ A SONG.</h2> <p class="center p2 large"><i>FINIS.</i></p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Works of the Right Honourable John -Earl of Rochester, by John Wilmot - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN EARL OF ROCHESTER *** - -***** This file should be named 44891-h.htm or 44891-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/8/9/44891/ - -Produced by Mark C. 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