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MISCELLANIES.
The shining robes, rich jewels, beds of state,
And, to compleat her bliss, a fool for mate.
She glares in balls, front-boxes, and the ring,
A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched thing!
Pride, pomp, and state but reach her outward part,
She sighs, and is no Dutchess at her heart.
But, Madam, if the fates withstand, and you
Are destin'd Hymen's willing victim too,
Trust not too much your now resistless charms,
Those, age or sickness, soon or late, disarms;
Good humour only teaches charms to last,
Still makes new conquests, and maintains the part:
Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay,
Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day,
As flow'ry bands in wantonness are worn;
A morning's pleasure, and at evening torn:
This binds in ties more easy, yet more strong,
The willing heart, and only holds it long.
Thus [1]Voiture's early care still shone the same,
And Monthausier was only chang'd in name;
And, to compleat her bliss, a fool for mate.
She glares in balls, front-boxes, and the ring,
A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched thing!
Pride, pomp, and state but reach her outward part,
She sighs, and is no Dutchess at her heart.
But, Madam, if the fates withstand, and you
Are destin'd Hymen's willing victim too,
Trust not too much your now resistless charms,
Those, age or sickness, soon or late, disarms;
Good humour only teaches charms to last,
Still makes new conquests, and maintains the part:
Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay,
Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day,
As flow'ry bands in wantonness are worn;
A morning's pleasure, and at evening torn:
This binds in ties more easy, yet more strong,
The willing heart, and only holds it long.
Thus [1]Voiture's early care still shone the same,
And Monthausier was only chang'd in name;
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- ↑ Madamoiselle Paulet.
