LOVE AND REASON
Love once in Heaven reigned and Reason reigned on earth,
But Reason now has gone above since Love had here her birth.
BEAUTY WITHOUT WIT
Phillis! a deaf man you should wed,
Because your beauty he would see,
And, hearing not the things you said,
Would never disenchanted be.
ON A VERY FAT LADY
They say I take no exercise,—but that is idle talk,—
Around Emilia, fair and fat, three times a day I walk.
TO THE BEAUTIFUL HORTENSE, ABSENT
Return, dear maid, my longing heart to bless;
I'm dying of desire to die of happiness.
ON A COQUETTE
Blanche says she loves me: that is true no doubt:
She loves all men—and doesn't leave me out.
TO THE VICIOUS CLARICE
Nothing you love but evil—tell us why
You show to virtue such antipathy?
Why when you see it show so much alarm?
Virtue has never done you any harm.
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