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 Constancy in love, even under scorns and repulses, is much extolled by Lord Surrey, as in the following lines:

P. 193. This poem, I imagine, contains an allusion to the misfortunes and abdication of James II.

The opinion expressed in these lines, is well illustrated by the following passage from Swift: "Those entertainments and pleasures we most value in life, are such as dupe, and play the wag with the senses. For if we Lake an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding, or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: That it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.