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Rh In lofty style to make replies, Which he had taught her to despise? But when her tutor will affect Devotion, duty, and respect. He fairly abdicates the throne; The government is now her own; He has a forfeiture incurr'd; She vows to take him at his word, And hopes he will not think it strange, If both should now their stations change; The nymph will have her turn to be The tutor; and the pupil, he: Though she already can discern Her scholar is not apt to learn; Or wants capacity to reach The science she designs to teach: Wherein his genius was below The skill of every common beau, Who, though he cannot spell, is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes, And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance. But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantick strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphick ends; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold. Meantime the mournful Queen of Love Led but a weary life above. She