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Rh 7.

Two whom I lov'd had eyes of Blue,

To which I hope you've no objection;

The Rest had eyes of darker Hue—

Each Nymph, of course, was all perfection,

8.

But here I'll close my chaste Description,

Nor say the deeds of animosity;

For silence is the best prescription,

To physic idle curiosity.

9.

Of Friends I've known a goodly Hundred—

For finding one in each acquaintance,

By some deceived by others plunder'd,

Friendship, to me, was not Repentance.

10.

At School I thought like other Children;

Instead of Brains, a fine Ingredient,

Romance, my youthful Head bewildering,

To Sense had made me disobedient.

11.

A victim, nearly from affection,

To certain very precious scheming,

The still remaining recollection

Has cured my boyish soul of Dreaming.