Pastorals Epistles Odes (1748)/Song: "From White's and Will's"

by Ambrose Philips

 

ODES.

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SONG.

I.
ROM While's and Will's
 To purling rills
The love sick Strephon flies;
  There, full of woe,
  His numbers flow,
And all in rhyme he dies.

II.
  The fair coquett,
   With feign'd regret,
 Invites him back to town;
   But, when in tears
   The youth appears,
 She meets him with a frown.

III.
  Full oft' the maid
  This prank had play'd,
'Till angry Strephon swore,
  And, what is strange,
  Tho' loth to change,
Would never see her more.