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THE GENTLE SHEPHERD. 75
Nor age, nor the changes of life.
Can quench the fair fire ot" love.
If virtue's ingraiu'd in the wife.
And the hulband ha'e fenfe to approve.
Tatis. ' That's wifely faid.
And what he wares that way (hail be wiel paid.
Tho' without a' the little helps of art.
Thy native fweets might gain a prince's heart ;
Yet now, kit in our iiation we offend.
We niuft learn modes to innocence unkend ;
Affcdl att-times to like the thing we hate.
And drap ferenity to keep up ftate ; (fay.
Laugh when we're fad, fpeak when we've nought tm
And, for the fafhion, when we're blyth feem wae;
ray compliments to them we aft ha'e fcorn'd,
Then fcandalize them when their backs are tarn'd»
Piggy- If this is gentry, I had rather be
What I am dill— but I'll be ought wi' thee.
Patie. Na, na, my Peggy, Ibut onlyjelt
Wi' gentry's apes ; for ftill amangft the bell.
Good manners gi'e integrity a bleeze.
When native virtues join the arts to pleafe.
Pff^gy. Since wi' nae hazard, and fae fma' expence!.
My lad frae books can gather ficcan fenfe.
Then why, ah ! why Ihou'd the tempeftuous fea
Endanger thy dear life and frighten me ?
Sir William's cruel, that wad force his fon.
For watna what's, fae greata rifque to run.
Patie. There is nae doubt but travelling does im-
Yet I would fhun it for thy fake, my love : (prove |
But foon as I've fhook aff my landwart caft
In foreign cities, hame to thee t'U hafte.