303:01,000@@@@@| 303:01,000[' ]| 303:01,001[A ]| When first the world from the black chaos rose, 303:01,002[A ]| And infant-beauty did the frame compose; 303:01,003[A ]| When Heaven and man possessed one state of mind, 303:01,004[A ]| And the pure globe, like$4$ its creator, shined: 303:01,005[A ]| When free from sin the noble mortal strove 303:01,006[A ]| To$9$ rival God in$4$ his return of love. 303:01,007[A ]| When damning pride, that$6#2$ architect of Hell, 303:01,008[A ]| Made not, as yet, his tempted soul rebel. 303:01,009[A ]| When plunging avarice no$2$ birth had found, 303:01,010[A ]| Nor tore the precious entrails of the ground; 303:01,011[A ]| Then then the new inhabitant was blessed, 303:01,012[A ]| Ease watched his heart, and peace secured his breast; 303:01,013[A ]| No$2$ earthy thought tainted his generous mind, 303:01,014[A ]| That$6#2$ world the Almighty gave him, he declined; 303:01,015[A ]| His God-like image made him upwards move; 303:01,016[A ]| He lived below while his soul dwelt above. 303:01,017[A ]| Riches were things too weak to$9$ enslave his sense, 303:01,018[A ]| The dazzling diamond wanted influence. 303:01,019[A ]| Pearls, like$4$ the common gravel, he condemned, 303:01,020[A ]| And what we count a God, he thought no$2$ friend. 303:01,021[A ]| With heat of love he flamed upon$4$ his mate, 303:01,022[A ]| And on$4$ the green swath without dowry sate: 303:01,023[A ]| Circling her snowy neck, he sought her heart; 303:01,024[A ]| A fiery lover, free from fraud, or art. 303:01,025[A ]| The object of his restless thoughts, was bliss, 303:01,026[A ]| And that$6#2$ he found in$4$ one embrace, one kiss: 303:01,027[A ]| One clasp, one hug, one eager glance was more, 303:01,028[A ]| Than worlds of pearl, or heaps of golden ore. 303:01,029[A ]| He praised his prized affection next his God, 303:01,030[A ]| And thought his wife the second chiefest good; 303:01,031[A ]| The Heaven-born dame brought to$4$ his longing arms 303:01,032[A ]| Her soul, her beauty, and resistless charms. 303:01,033[A ]| Her breast an equal active fire did move, 303:01,034[A ]| She lost the thoughts of empire in$4$ his love. 303:01,035[A ]| The splendid style of empress she despised, 303:01,036[A ]| The world a cipher to$4$ the man she prized: 303:01,037[A ]| Her crowding wishes him alone pursued, 303:01,038[A ]| No$2$ separate greatness could her love delude: 303:01,039[A ]| Her intellectuals pure, knew how to$9$ scan 303:01,040[A ]| That$6#2$ great and independent monarch, man; 303:01,041[A ]| That$6#2$ little, but more weighty world refined, 303:01,042[A ]| More apt, and suited to$4$ her heavenly mind. 303:01,043[A ]| She understood, that$3$ all the good we name, 303:01,044[A ]| Was nicely wrapped and folded up$5$ in$4$ him. 303:01,045[A ]| Oh Fate! from whence proceeds the hidden cause, 303:01,046[A ]| That$3$ we at love, that$6#2$ glorious passion, pause! 303:01,047[A ]| Was it with Adam's innocence betrayed, 303:01,048[A ]| Or, by$4$ his lapse, a malefactor made? 303:01,049[A ]| Or have our own acquired excesses been 303:01,050[A ]| So$5#1$ daring, to$9$ determine it a sin? 303:01,051[A ]| What should at once proclaim us blessed and great, 303:01,052[A ]| We fly, and court the landmark of our fate. 303:01,053[A ]| Like$4$ murmuring full-mouthed Israelites we stand, 303:01,054[A ]| And run on$4$ rocks, to$9$ shun the Holy Land. 303:01,055[A ]| From hence the baffled world has been inversed, 303:01,056[A ]| Princes involved in$4$ war, and people cursed; 303:01,057[A ]| Friends to$4$ their confidants estranged, and those 303:01,058[A ]| Whom fathers got, to$4$ tender fathers foes. 303:01,059[A ]| Hence lands united to$4$ themselves, divide, 303:01,060[A ]| And cease their strict alliance, though allied. 303:01,061[A ]| Hence hot debates grow in$4$ domestic powers, 303:01,062[A ]| The man is unkind, the cheated woman lowers. 303:01,063[A ]| Man, like$4$ the sordid earth, from which$6#1$ he sprung, 303:01,064[A ]| Corrupts his soul by$4$ a base heap of dung: 303:01,065[A ]| Forgetting the celestial form he bore, 303:01,066[A ]| He values not the woman, but her store: 303:01,067[A ]| Extends his treacherous pledge to$4$ golden charms, 303:01,068[A ]| And joins his hands to$4$ none but spangled arms. 303:01,069[A ]| He weds her jewels, and her amber-chains 303:01,070[A ]| But her rich self (that$6#1$ merits all) disdains: 303:01,071[A ]| Her face he praises, but he courts her ears, 303:01,072[A ]| Catching the glittering pendants that$6#1$ she wears: 303:01,073[A ]| Each eye no$2$ longer he esteems a star, 303:01,074[A ]| Than flaming rubies hung upon$4$ her hair: 303:01,075[A ]| And judging love, without her gold, a curse, 303:01,076[A ]| He scorns her virtue, and adores her purse. 303:01,077[A ]| The woman too no$2$ less debased than he, 303:01,078[A ]| Gives not her self, but for$4$ gratuity; 303:01,079[A ]| Soothes like$4$ a merchant, with inveigling art, 303:01,080[A ]| Demands her jointure, and keeps back her heart. 303:01,081[A ]| On$4$ terms and articles, with pride proceeds, 303:01,082[A ]| And seals her cold affections to$4$ her deeds: 303:01,083[A ]| Stands off and treats like$4$ an imperious state, 303:01,084[A ]| And baulks her happiness, to$9$ be made great: 303:01,085[A ]| Proclaims her fortune of a goodly size, 303:01,086[A ]| And he that$6#1$ offers most, obtains the prize. 303:01,087[A ]| Both sexes now deprave their noble kind, 303:01,088[A ]| While sordid avarice corrupts the mind. 303:01,089[A ]| Never consult poor virtue when they choose. 303:01,090[A ]| But for$4$ a painted cloud, the goddess lose. 303:01,091[A ]| Divine content they count a finer cheat, 303:01,092[A ]| A dish for$4$ ornament, but no$2$ true meat: 303:01,093[A ]| A mere romance, an idle dream of those, 303:01,094[A ]| Who$6#1$ wanting wealth, think to$9$ disguise their woes. 303:01,095[A ]| A Mountebank, that$6#1$ only boasts of cures; 303:01,096[A ]| But can not work the effects his cant assures. 303:01,097[A ]| The vain deluded atheist thus denies 303:01,098[A ]| A supreme essence, hid from human eyes: 303:01,099[A ]| Because his sense can not apprehend a god, 303:01,100[A ]| Religion is Scottish and her zealots mad. 303:01,101[A ]| But look, a married and a happy pair, 303:01,102[A ]| Are now like$4$ revelations, strange and rare: 303:01,103[A ]| But if we reason from the ages gone, 303:01,104[A ]| There scarcely was a happy match, but one. 303:01,105[A ]| We mind not now the merits of our kind, 303:01,106[A ]| Curious in$4$ gold, but to$4$ the persons blind. 303:01,107[A ]| The man ne'er minds his love, for$4$ money still 303:01,108[A ]| Is the base thirsted object of his will$0$. 303:01,109[A ]| Upon$4$ condition of a promised store, 303:01,110[A ]| He will$1$ hug a thing that$6#1$ crawls upon$4$ all four. 303:01,111[A ]| Bring him an old rich corpse with grim death's head, 303:01,112[A ]| He will$1$ swear she is young, and her complexion red. 303:01,113[A ]| Or if you could bring one without a face, 303:01,114[A ]| He will$1$ praise her conquering eyes, and charming grace. 303:01,115[A ]| The woman too, by$4$ such affections led, 303:01,116[A ]| Condemns the living, to$9$ embrace the dead. 303:01,117[A ]| And rather than not covet, basely bold, 303:01,118[A ]| Would wed a coffin, were the hinges gold. 303:01,119[A ]| Nature's apostate, active youth she scorns, 303:01,120[A ]| Will$1$ long for$4$ oxen, if you gild their horns. 303:01,121[A ]| Say he is deformed, has neither eyes nor nose, 303:01,122[A ]| Nay, nothing to$9$ bespeak him man, but clothes, 303:01,123[A ]| Straight she replies he is rich, so$3$ passes down; 303:01,124[A ]| There is nothing ugly, but a poor baboon. 303:01,125[A ]| Thus might she clasp a loathsome toad in$4$ bed, 303:01,126[A ]| Because he bears a pearl within his head. 303:01,127[A ]| And gilded pills, though bitter, may delight 303:01,128[A ]| The lickerish lust of wavering appetite. 303:01,129[A ]| But still though wealth their griping senses feasts, 303:01,130[A ]| At most, they are but concatenated beasts. 303:01,131[A ]| For$3$ as they scorn all consonance of soul, 303:01,132[A ]| A mutual hatred must their peace control. 303:01,133[A ]| And this stands fixed, what with my love will$1$ not suit, 303:01,134[A ]| Appears deformed, and straight commences bruit. 303:01,135[A ]| To$4$ various climes of tempers each are thrown, 303:01,136[A ]| The frigid coupled to$4$ the torrid zone; 303:01,137[A ]| Like$4$ curs of different nature, in$4$ a chain, 303:01,138[A ]| They are linked in$4$ fear, and wear their bonds in$4$ pain. 303:01,139[A ]| Perhaps a cold respect they both may show, 303:01,140[A ]| As impious men to$4$ a kind demon do. 303:01,141[A ]| Who$6#1$ when some skulking wealth he does unfold, 303:01,142[A ]| Honour and dread him for$4$ their new-found gold. 303:01,143[A ]| But view, unrobe the bosom of disguise, 303:01,144[A ]| Observe the strange aversion of their eyes: 303:01,145[A ]| With palpitations of regret they twine, 303:01,146[A ]| Like$4$ oil and water their false loves combine. 303:01,147[A ]| With feigned embrace they seem love's joys to$9$ crave, 303:01,148[A ]| But with their bed, converted to$4$ a grave: 303:01,149[A ]| And whilst their backward hearts like$4$ loadstones meet, 303:01,150[A ]| They wish their linen were their winding-sheet. 303:01,151[A ]| He, like$4$ the bear of love, her body clips, 303:01,152[A ]| Instead of pressing, bites her glowing lips. 303:01,153[A ]| She, like$4$ a wounded otter, flings and rails, 303:01,154[A ]| Fires with her tongue, and combats with her nails. 303:01,155[A ]| Hell and confusion seize the place around, 303:01,156[A ]| Nothing but mutual frenzy is to$9$ be found. 303:01,157[A ]| They both launch out into a sea of strife, 303:01,158[A ]| A clamorous husband, and a brawling wife. 303:01,159[A ]| The whole armada of their thoughts combine, 303:01,160[A ]| On$4$ each side summoned, they in$4$ consort join. 303:01,161[A ]| He arms Revenge, she meets him with Disdain, 303:01,162[A ]| And to$4$ it they rush, like$4$ storms upon$4$ the Main. 303:01,163[A ]| She to$4$ her shrill loud clamours, takes recourse, 303:01,164[A ]| Stamps, and invokes the clergy for$4$ divorce; 303:01,165[A ]| Detests the light by$4$ which$6#1$ his face she saw, 303:01,166[A ]| Curses the bands, and execrates the law. 303:01,167[A ]| Directs to$4$ Heaven her folded hands with prayers, 303:01,168[A ]| And pouring down a flood of briny tears; 303:01,169[A ]| Hopes that$3$ kind justice would her grief behold, 303:01,170[A ]| Pity an injured lover, though a scold: 303:01,171[A ]| That$3$ Death would snatch him from the loathsome bed, 303:01,172[A ]| And Heaven restore the will$0$ which$6#1$ she betrayed, 303:01,173[A ]| He with distraction and with rage grows blind, 303:01,174[A ]| Curses the sex, and damns all womankind: 303:01,175[A ]| Accuses Heaven that$6#1$ such a monster made, 303:01,176[A ]| A fury in$4$ deceitful masquerade. 303:01,177[A ]| A gaudy phantom, that$6#1$ deludes the sight, 303:01,178[A ]| A devil with the coverture of light; 303:01,179[A ]| Blasphemes, and by$4$ his passion cast so$5#1$ far, 303:01,180[A ]| Destroys himself by$4$ persecuting her: 303:01,181[A ]| Abjures his faith sworn to$4$ a legal bed, 303:01,182[A ]| Hates her, and lays another by$4$ his side; 303:01,183[A ]| Profusely lavishes, her right, each kiss, 303:01,184[A ]| And wracks her with the sight of wrongful bliss. 303:01,185[A ]| She grows provoked upon$4$ the dismal change, 303:01,186[A ]| And turns dishonest, to$9$ retort revenge: 303:01,187[A ]| The breach of chastity she makes her play, 303:01,188[A ]| Plagues him all night, and cuckolds him all day. 303:01,189[A ]| This must be then the issue, where our love, 303:01,190[A ]| Does not together with our nuptials move. 303:01,191[A ]| Possessions can not for$4$ fickle joy provide. 303:01,192[A ]| When love the end of living, is destroyed. 303:01,193[A ]| Alas! we are all mistaken in$4$ the kind, 303:01,194[A ]| A happy man is measured by$4$ the mind. 303:01,195[A ]| Suppose him born to$4$ all the pomp of life; 303:01,196[A ]| Admit he is matched to$4$ beauty in$4$ a wife, 303:01,197[A ]| These are but pageants, which$6#1$ a while may please, 303:01,198[A ]| They may divert him, but procure no$2$ ease. 303:01,199[A ]| That$3$ grandeur is no$2$ compound of our bliss, 303:01,200[A ]| The rugged bosoms of the great confess. 303:01,210[A ]| The gilded monarch's sable stands within, 303:01,202[A ]| His glory to$4$ his troubles, but a shrine: 303:01,203[A ]| His cares, his jealousies, nocturnal frights, 303:01,204[A ]| Embitter all his joys and false delights. 303:01,205[A ]| His toiling head with grief a crown must bear, 303:01,206[A ]| Whilst he still starts and gasps, to$9$ hold it there. 303:01,207[A ]| And thus all princes to$4$ this Hell we trace, 303:01,208[A ]| They reign without, and are but kings by$4$ place. 303:01,209[A ]| But lest ambitious maids in$4$ scorn relate, 303:01,210[A ]| This is the utmost tyranny of fate; 303:01,211[A ]| That$3$ such seditious disagreeing pairs, 303:01,212[A ]| Are scarcely known in$4$ centuries of years, 303:01,213[A ]| We will$1$ grant (which$6#1$ yet no$2$ less misfortune breeds) 303:01,214[A ]| The woman loves the golden man she weds. 303:01,215[A ]| We will$1$ think she brings with her estate a mind, 303:01,216[A ]| Pure as her sterling, from its dross refined. 303:01,217[A ]| Yet this is so$5#1$ unlikely to$9$ succeed, 303:01,218[A ]| It murders what it first designed to$9$ feed. 303:01,219[A ]| He straight concludes her passion a pretence, 303:01,220[A ]| Condemns her soul, and lays the crime on$4$ sense. 303:01,221[A ]| Argues, she only chose to$9$ be his bride, 303:01,222[A ]| To$9$ serve and gratify her costly pride. 303:01,223[A ]| But still we will$1$ give this topic larger law, 303:01,224[A ]| We will$1$ say an equal passion both does draw. 303:01,225[A ]| We will$1$ suppose them both inclined to$9$ love. 303:01,226[A ]| We will$1$ call her Venus, and we will$1$ style him Jove; 303:01,227[A ]| Yet through the tides of business in$4$ his head, 303:01,228[A ]| He must neglect, and at length slight her bed. 303:01,229[A ]| His peeping passion, like$4$ a feeble sun, 303:01,230[A ]| Mingled with showers of rain, will$1$ soon be gone. 303:01,231[A ]| And if perhaps there is left some poor remains, 303:01,232[A ]| Like$4$ northern gold, it is in$4$ penurious veins, 303:01,233[A ]| Diffused and scattered o'er the barren land, 303:01,234[A ]| Amidst vast heaps of lead and worthless sand. 303:01,235[A ]| This must be then a sad reward of love, 303:01,236[A ]| When he thus senseless of her choice does prove. 303:01,237[A ]| Her amorous courage ne'er can long be bold, 303:01,238[A ]| That$6#1$ finds herself out-rivalled by$4$ her gold. 303:01,239[A ]| Both their affections to$4$ the deep are sent, 303:01,240[A ]| He sinks through weight, and she through discontent. 303:01,241[A ]| Their riches then show their defect of power, 303:01,242[A ]| That$6#1$ can not create what want does oft procure. 303:01,243[A ]| In$4$ thought of wealth, he can not entomb his smart, 303:01,244[A ]| When sullen love preys on$4$ his stubborn heart. 303:01,245[A ]| If crowded chests and glutted coffers can 303:01,246[A ]| Restore contentment to$4$ the anxious man; 303:01,247[A ]| Possessed of those, if he from pain is free, 303:01,248[A ]| A troubled, may be called a quiet sea: 303:01,249[A ]| Because there is pearl and amber on$4$ the shores, 303:01,250[A ]| And thus it is strangely silenced when it roars. 303:01,251[A ]| But it were, methinks, an easy task to$9$ prove 303:01,252[A ]| There is no$2$ such curse, as mercenary love; 303:01,253[A ]| True fire the hearts of the wealthy seldom breed, 303:01,254[A ]| They may through care, but not affection bleed. 303:01,255[A ]| Their tenures, lands, their rents, and quarter-days, 303:01,256[A ]| In$4$ their distracted heads strong factions raise. 303:01,257[A ]| And whensoe'er poor simpering Love peeps in$5$, 303:01,258[A ]| He is by$4$ that$6#2$ boisterous crowd beat out again: 303:01,259[A ]| Croesus is still perplexed to$9$ guard his store; 303:01,260[A ]| Fears it will$1$ be less, labours to$9$ make it more. 303:01,261[A ]| Thus what he hoards by$4$ the excess of gain, 303:01,262[A ]| Starves his lean joy, but feeds his pampered pain. 303:01,263[A ]| When Love with kind caresses he should please, 303:01,264[A ]| He forms indentures, draws a cautious lease; 303:01,265[A ]| On$4$ nasty acres all his speeches run, 303:01,266[A ]| His heart is a tumult, like$4$ a market-town, 303:01,267[A ]| And when in$4$ bed he should embrace his spouse, 303:01,268[A ]| Like$4$ a dull ox, he is still amongst the cows; 303:01,269[A ]| Chews all the night upon$4$ the next fair day, 303:01,270[A ]| How much this horse, how much that$6#2$ load of hay. 303:01,271[A ]| No$2$ thought but that$6#2$ of cattle, yokes his heart, 303:01,272[A ]| His soul is the driver, and himself the cart. 303:01,273[A ]| Nothing but buzz and noise, his fancy seize, 303:01,274[A ]| His head is the hive, his busy thoughts the bees. 303:01,275[A ]| In$4$ vain the wife does for$4$ the husband mourn, 303:01,276[A ]| Whilst she is the burden, and her love the drone. 303:01,277[A ]| Love, like$4$ a cautious fearful bird, ne'er builds, 303:01,278[A ]| But where the place silence and calmness yields: 303:01,279[A ]| He slyly flies to$4$ copses, where he finds 303:01,280[A ]| The snugging woods secure from blasts and winds. 303:01,281[A ]| Shuns the huge boughs of a more stately form, 303:01,282[A ]| And laughs at trees tore up$5$ with every storm. 303:01,283[A ]| The pleasant nightingale can ne'er be won, 303:01,284[A ]| To$9$ quit a temperate shade, to$9$ scorch in$4$ the sun; 303:01,285[A ]| In$4$ some low grove, he sings his charming note, 303:01,286[A ]| And on$4$ a thorn tunes the sweet warbling throat. 303:01,287[A ]| We will$1$ take a rustic couple for$4$ our scenes, 303:01,288[A ]| Who$6#1$ love, and know not what ambition means: 303:01,289[A ]| Who$6#1$ such an even competence possess, 303:01,290[A ]| What may support, but not disturb their bliss. 303:01,291[A ]| See how unmoved they at all changes stand, 303:01,292[A ]| Shipwrecks at sea, and earthquakes on$4$ the land: 303:01,293[A ]| The fraud of courts, the knavish toil of clowns, 303:01,294[A ]| A monarch's favour, or his pointed frowns, 303:01,295[A ]| Concern them not; they but themselves abuse, 303:01,296[A ]| In$4$ valuing that$6#2$ they ne'er intend to$9$ use. 303:01,297[A ]| Each to$4$ the other proves a solid bliss, 303:01,298[A ]| Rich in$4$ themselves no$2$ want of happiness. 303:01,299[A ]| Like$4$ Egypt, in$4$ whose land all plenty grows, 303:01,300[A ]| Each others bottom is their best repose. 303:01,301[A ]| When clamorous storms, and pitchy tempests rise, 303:01,302[A ]| Cheek clings to$4$ cheek, and swimming eyes to$4$ eyes: 303:01,303[A ]| When jarring winds and dreadful thunders roar, 303:01,304[A ]| It serves to$9$ make them press, and love the more. 303:01,305[A ]| Immortal beings thus themselves cajole, 303:01,306[A ]| Spurn stinking sense, and feed upon$4$ the soul. 303:01,307[A ]| Here let us leave them bathing in$4$ pure joy, 303:01,308[A ]| Whom envious man, nor fate can e'er destroy. 303:01,309[A ]| Here let them live to$9$ share all wealth and power, 303:01,310[A ]| As greatness can not love less, they can not love more. 303:01,311[A ]| To$4$ the divinest state of things they drive, 303:01,312[A ]| Like$4$ pilgrim-angels, on$4$ the earth they live, 303:01,313[A ]| Kind Nature gave them, Fortune bore no$2$ part, 303:01,314[A ]| Love joined their souls, and Heaven sealed each heart.