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,

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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

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Catch, e'er fhe change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Rufa, whofe eye quick-glancing o'er the Park,
Attracts each light gay meteor of a Spark,
Agrees as ill with Rufa ftudying Locke,
As Sappho's di'monds with her dirty smock;
Or Sappho at her toilet's greazy task,
With Sappho fragrant at an ev'ning Mask:
So morning Infects that in muck begun,
Shine, buzz, and fly-blow in the setting-fun.
How foft is Silia! fearful to offend;

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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,
Of councils, claffics, fathers, wits;
Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke:
Yet in fome things, methinks, she fails,
'Twere well if he wou'd pare her nails,
And wear a cleaner fmock.

VER.29 and 37. II. Contrarieties in the Soft-natured.P.

All eyes may fee from what the change arose,
All eyes may fee-a Pimple on her nose.

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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,
'Twas thus Calypfo once each heart alarm'd,
Aw'd without Virtue, without Beauty charm'd;
Her Tongue bewitch'd as odly as her Eyes,
Lefs Wit than Mimic, more a Wit than wife;
Strange graces ftill, and ftranger flights fhe had,
Was juft not ugly, and was just not mad ;
Yet ne'er fo fure our paffion to create,

As when the touch'd the brink of all we hate.

NOTES.

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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.
Why then declare Good-nature is her fcorn,
When 'tis by that alone she can be born?
Why pique all Mortals, yet affect a name;

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;

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A fool to Pleasure, yet a flave to Fame:
Now deep in Taylor and the Book of Martyrs,
Now drinking citron with his Grace and Chartres :
Now Conscience chills her, and now Paffion burns
And Atheism and Religion take their turns ;
A very Heathen in the carnal part,
Yet ftill a fad, good Christian at her heart.
See Sin in State, majeftically drunk;
Proud as a Peerefs, prouder as a Punk ;
Chafte to her Husband, frank to all befide,

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A teeming Mistress, but a barren Bride.
What then? let Blood and Body bear the fault,
Her Head's untouch'd, that noble Seat of Thought:

NOTES.

VER. 53. IV. In the Whimsical. P.

VER. 69. V. In the Lewd and Vicious. P.