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 You may know very well that I mean; it is good to be merry and wise.

I have been a father to you, and so I will to your wife; Nothing shall be wanting in me, to the longest day of my life: And if you amend what's amiss, and not my good counsel despise. Then will I conclude all with this, dear son you’ll be merry and wise.

E virgin powers, defend my heart, from amorous looks and smiles; From fancy love, or nicer art, which most our sex beguiles.

From sighs and vows, and awful fears, that do to pity move; From speaking sileucesilence [sic], and from tears, those springs that water love.

But if through passion I grow blind, let honour be my guide; And when frail nature seems inclin’d, there place a guard of pride.

An heart, whose flames are seen, tho’ pure, needs every virtue’s aid; And she who thinks herself secure, the soonest is betray’d.

Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1802.