 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 256 pages
...lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, To forfake the/ fine folk of the town ? E z T. To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind and fo conftant...maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have (kill to complain, Though the Mufes my temples have crown'd What though, when they hear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 248 pages
...a clown, Or that her fond he.:rt would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town ? To flunk that a beauty fo gay, So kind and fo conftant would...maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have fkill to complain, Though the Mufes my temples have crown'd; What though, when they hear... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...She could doat on fo lowly a clown ; Or that her fond heart would not grieve To forfake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind...maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have flcill to complain, Though the Mufes my temples have crown'd; What though when they hear... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - Ballads, Scots - 1788 - 502 pages
...-She could doat en fo lowly a clown, Or that her fend heart would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town > To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind and fo conltant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or lire in a cottage on lave ? What though... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 358 pages
...She could doat on fo lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind...maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have fkill to complain, Though the Mufes my temples have crown'd; What though, when they hear... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...could doat on fo lowly л clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind and fo confiant would prevé; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or live in a cottage on love Í What though... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...She could dote on fo lowly a clovru. Orthat her fond heart would not grieve To forfakc the fine folk of the town ! To think that a beauty fo gay So kind and fo confiant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or live in a cottage on love ! What though... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...the plain. Aid see me lay low in the ground. to think that a heauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove ', Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temple have crown'd ; What though when they hear... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1808 - 228 pages
...think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or live in a cottage on love ? What tho' I have skill to complain ! Tho' the muses my temples have crown'd ! What tho', when they hear my soft strain, The virgins sit weeping around... | |
 | 438 pages
...She could doat on fo lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve To forfake the fine folk of the town ; To think that a beauty fo gay So kind and fo conflant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or live in a cottage on love ! What thougli... | |
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To forsake the fine folk of the town ! To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant... 
