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When I in the net by young Duphie was caught,
I ]y'd and I ilatter'd, as cuftoni had taught,
I preft her to'bJifs, which ihe granted full foon,
But the date of my paflion expir'd with the moon.
She faid ihe was ruin'd, I faid it might be,
I'm forrow my dear, but by Jov;, ^c.
The next was young Phillis as bright as the morn,
The love that I profer'd (he treated with fcorn,
I laugh'd at her folly, and told her my mind,
That none can be handfome but fuch as are kind.
Her pride and ill-nature were bft upon me,
Vox, in Ipiglit of fair faces, by Jcve, ^c.
Let others call marriage the harbour of joys,
Calm peace I delight in, and fly from all noife.
Some chufe to be hamper'd^ it is a ftrange rage,
And like birds they ^mg beft when confin'd in a cage j
Confinement's the Devil, 'twas ne'er made for me,
Let who will be flaves bound,- (6"<?.
Then let each brisk bumper run over the glafs.
In a toaft to the young and the beautiful lafs,
"Who yielding and eafy prefcribes no dull rule.
Nor thinks it a wonder a lover Ihould cool :
Let us bill like the fparrow, and rove like the bee>
For, in fpite of grave leiTons, by Jove I'll be free.
*HE blytheft bird that fmgs in May,
"\^as ne'er more blythe, was ne'er mote gay
Than I, ah weli-a-day,
Than I, ah well-a-day.
Ere Colin yet had learnt to figh,
Or 1 to guefs the reafon why,.
Oh love, ah well a-day.
Oh love, ah wcli-a-day.
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