SHALL Die because a woman's fair? Shall my cheeks look pale with care, 'Cause another's rofie are? Be fhe fairer than the day, Shall a woman's goodness move Be fhe good, or kind, or fair, So if fhe be not fit for me, AIR Amoret is gone aftray, Purfue, and feek her, ev'ry lover; I'll tell the figns by which you may The wandring fhepherdess discover. Coquet and coy at once her air, Both ftudy'd, tho' both feem neglected; Careless fhe is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. With skill her eyes dart ev'ry glance, Yet change fo foon you'd ne'er fufpect 'em; For fhe'd perfuade they wound by chance, She likes her felf, yet others hates For that which in her felf the prizes; And, while fhe laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that the despises. FAIR F AIR Iris and her fwain Were in a fhady bower, Had fought the happy hour; If you will make me bleft.. Ir. An eafy yielding maid Our fex is oft betray'd If you defire to gain me, Before you fall poffefs. Th. The little care you fhew Makes death appear too flow, Before it be too late. Ir. You Ir. You fondly court your blifs, And no advances.make; "Tis not for maids to give, But never kifs and tell. Th. And may I kiss you kindly? But do not kifs and tell, but do not kifs and tell. Th. No, no, I'll never kifs and tell; no, no, I'll never Both. Thus at the height we love and live, And fear not to be poor: (kifs and tell. We give and we give, we give and we give, Till we can give no more: But what to day shall take away, To-morrow will reftore. But what &c. How H ow do they err, who throw their love Whom only rants and flights can move, For how can pleasure folid be, Our fenfe then rightly we'll employ, Yet envying none the trifling joy, For wisdom's power (fince after all, BELINDA |