The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon].

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1774
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Credit: The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Still hear me, Lovers *, all whole roving Hearts No facred nuptial Chains have yet confin’d:' 196 Attentive hear; and daily, nightly, weigh The Counfels fage, which, thro’ my raptur’d Breaft^ To you th’ aufpicious heavenly Mufe conveys: The Mufe, no Toothing Minifter of Vice 5 200 Tho’ now in fportive Vein to youthful Ears She tunes her Song, to give Inftruftion Grace. \ Attend, ye Wife !—No frantic Bacchanal, No fhamelefs Bard of the licentious Rout I £ ; Of flufh’d Silenus, Tings.—What Nature bids 205 Is good, is wife ; and faultlefs we obey. We muft obey ; howe’er hard Stoick Dreams Of Jpathy^ much vaunted, feldom prov’d. For
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