The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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The Mis-grounded Compassion.
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The Mis-grounded Compassion.
You've heard it, and read it, a million of times,That men are made up of delusions, and crimes.
Look over old stories, and search all the new,
You'll find, in love-trusts, not a man of us, true.
Then, why this reproachful, and termagant face?
Why so feelingly fierce, for another's disgrace?
Oh! I learn, by your blush, the true cause of your pain,
You were bit, by the tooth against which you complain.
What a pity, this sense of a sufferer's fate,
Came a little too home, and a good deal too late!
Had you felt, for a friend, e'er yourself was betray'd,
Such a well-tim'd concern might have made you afraid;
And the caution your own, tho' another's, the evil,
You had safely defy'd love, old apes, and the devil.
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