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Indeed, my, if to find That gold a female's vow can gain, If this had e'er disturb'd your mind, Or cost one serious moment's pain, I should have said that all the rules You learnt of moralists and schools, Were very useless, very vain.

Yet I perhaps mistake the case; And tho' with this heroic air, Like one that holds a nobler chace, You seem the lady's loss to bear, Perhaps your heart bely'd your tongue, And thinks my censure mighty wrong To count it such a slight affair. Rh