Page:Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea 1903.djvu/350

212 THE POEMS OP ANNE �The bouzy Spell dilated and inhans'd, �Ripe for Description, and sett Turns of Speech, �Which to Conjugal Spouse were thus addrest. �My Wife (acknowledg'd such thro' maunding Tribes, �As long as mutual Love, the only Law, 61 �Of Hedge or Barn, can bind our easy Faiths) �Be thou observant of thy Husband's Voice, �Sole Auditor of Flights and Figures bold; �Know, that the Valley which we hence descry �Richly adorn'd, is Fanscomb-Bottom call'd: �But whether from these Walls it takes the Name, �Or they from that, let Antiquaries tell, �And Men, well-read in Stories obsolete, �Whilst such Denomination either claims, 70 �As speaks Affinity contiguous �Thence let thy scatter'd Sight, and oft-griev'd Smell �Engulf the Sweets, and Colours free dispos'd �To Flowers promiscuous, and redundant Plants. �And (if the drouzy Vapour will admit, �Which from the Bowl soon triumphs o'er thy Lidds, �And Thee the weaker Vessel still denotes) �With Looks erect observe the verdant Slope �Of graceful Hills, fertile in Bush and Brake, �Whose Height attain' d, th' expatiated Downs 80 �Shall wider Scenes display of rural Glee ; �Where banner'd Lords, and fair escutcheon'd Knights, �With gentle Squires, and the Staff -griping Clown, �Pursue the trembling Prey impetuous; �Which yet escaping, when the Night returns, �And downy Beds enfold their careless Limbs, �More wakeful Trundle (Knapsack-bearing Cur) �Follows the Scent untrac'd by nobler Hounds, �And brings to us the Fruit of all their Toil. ��� �