"Who fell the forest, or who mow the mead, "Or drag in little boats the finny breed: "Her wide-mouth'd fons low-feated Henley fends, "And fmoky Okingham it's tribute lends. "But far did MARIAN all the rest outvie, "No check fo ruddy, nor fo black an eye; "Scarce DOLLY C----K the daughter of the may'r, "With all the flaxen ringlets of her hair, "With all the fnowy fulness of her breast, "In blithsome features might with me contest. "All youths ambitiously around me ftrove, "Each gave some chosen emblem of his love; "One queintly bought the garters for my thighs, "While fimple archness sparkled in his eyes. "But all their fairings unfuccefsful prove, "Still true to COLIN CLOUT I held my love. -Ah! fly deceiver ! you enclafp'd my arm, "And feem'd my faviour, while you meant my harm; "Far too unequal was the high reward, My maidenhead must pay thee for thy guard; "Already warm'd with joy you win my heart, "And ftamp a little COLIN e'er we part. -Yet now, when nature fills my womb, to fly"Nor yet one tear to iffue from thine eye 66 My flighted love to quick refentment turns ; "Lo my blood rises, and my cheek all burns! “O I could tear thee as I tear this glove"Go, horrid monfter! I defpife thy love, Thy oaths I quit, thy fairings I refign, Forget, renounce thee, hate whate'er was thine. "No chriftian mother bound thy infant head, "Some Turk begat thee, or fome Papist bred; "Or dropt on Cambrian hills, a fquallid brat, "Some fhe-goat fuckled thee with savage teat. "+-Go to thy drab, whoe'er has won thy heart, "And may the pox devouring make thee fmart; My vengeful ghost shall haunt thee o'er the plain, "Yes, thou fhalt fuffer, villain, for my pain. -But ah! my rage relents, my forrow flows ; "Come COLIN! faithless fhepherd! ease my woes. "And muft I in the sheet opprobrious stand? 66 66 Thy plight is troth'd, ah! come and give thy hand: My conscience starts, whene'er I hear a knell, "And is a little love deferving hell? "Too hard a penance for a fin fo flight! * Nec tibi diva parens, generis nec Dardanus auctor, Perfide, fed duris genuit te cautibus horrens Caucafus, Hyrcanaque admorunt ubera tigres. + I, fequere Italiam ventis, &c. Spero equidem mediis, fiquid pia numina, &c. ↑ Omnibus umbra locis adero, dabis, improbe, pœnas. En. 4 "When fleep has clos'd my forrow-ftreaming eyes, "Then ghaftly dreams, and hateful thoughts arise : "All unaccompany'd methinks I go "O'er Irish bogs, a wilderness of woe! "Ah! my wits turn! ftrange phantoms round me fly! "Lo! I am chang'd into a goofb❜ry pye! Forbear to eat me up, inhuman rabble! "Cocks crow, ducks quake, hens cackle, turkies gabble." Thus as fhe rav'd, her womb with rueful throes Did to the light a lufty babe disclose : Long while fhe doubted of the fmirking boy, Love prompted her to fave, and Pride to drown, * Semperque relinqui Sola fibi, femper longam incomitata videtur Eumenidum veluti demens videt agmina Pentheus, &c. Æn. 4 WHAT fears, what terrors does thy gift create! Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate! The myrtle, enfign of fupreme command, ΤΟ A YOUNG LADY WITH FONTENELLE'S PLURALITY OF WORLDS. IN N this fmall work all nature's wonders fee, On empty novels, or fome new-born play. |