How many pictures of one Nymph we view, 5 All how unlike each other, all how true! Arcadia's Countess, here, in ermin'd pride, Is there, Paftora by a fountain fide. Here Fannia, leering on her own good man, And there, a naked Leda with a Swan. Let then the Fair one beautifully cry, In Magdalen's loofe hair and lifted eye, Or dreft in fmiles of fweet Cecilia fhine, With fimp'ring Angels, Palms, and Harps divine; Whether the Charmer finner it, or faint it, 15 Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! If Folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air; Chufe a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it 19 Catch, e'er fhe change, the Cynthia of this minute. Rufa, whofe eye quick-glancing o'er the Park, 25 The Frail one's advocate, the Weak one's friend : 30 To her Calista prov'd her conduct nice; And good Simplicius afks of her advice. Sudden, she storms! fhe raves! You tip the wink, But fpare your cenfure; Silia does not drink. NOTES. VER. 21. Inftances of contrarieties, given even from fuch Characters as are moft ftrongly mark'd, and feemingly therefore moft con fiftent: As, I. In the Affected, † 21, &c. P. VER. 23. Agrees as ili with Rufa ftudying Locke,] This thought is expreffed with great humour in the following stanza : Tho' Artemefia talks, by fits, VER.29 and 37. II. Contrarieties in the Soft-natured.P. All eyes may fee from what the change arose, 35 Papillia, wedded to her am'rous spark, Sighs for the fhades-" How charming is a Park!" A Park is purchas'd, but the Fair he fees All bath'd in tears-" Oh odious, odious Trees !" Ladies, like variegated Tulips, fhow; 'Tis to their Changes half their charms we owe; Fine by defect, and delicately weak. Their happy Spots the nice admirer take, As when the touch'd the brink of all we hate. NOTES. 41 45 50 VER. 45. III. Contrarie | ftronger fhe exerted this vities in the Cunning and Art-vacity the more forceable ful. P. must be her attraction. But the point, where it came to excèfs, would deftroy all the delicacy, and expofe all the coarfnefs of fenfuality. VER 52. As when he touch'd the brink of all we bate.] Her charms confifted in the fingular turn of her vivacity; confequently the Narciffa's nature, tolerably mild, To make a wash, would hardly stew a child; Has ev'n been prov'd to grant a Lover's pray'r, 55 And paid a Tradesman once to make him stare; Gave alms at Eafter, in a Christian trim, And made a Widow happy, for a whim. 60 ; 66 A fool to Pleasure, yet a flave to Fame: 79 A teeming Mistress, but a barren Bride. NOTES. VER. 53. IV. In the Whimsical. P. VER. 69. V. In the Lewd and Vicious. P. |