The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke ... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition |
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AIR XXVI.
Jack.Humility, her crown aside,
Here stoops to wash the feet of Pride.
Averse from all the world calls great,
She fain would fall, and sink from state!
But sink or fall, howe'er she will,
She finds the world beneath her still.
Lady.
Your pleasure for this Gem so bright and strange?
I barter all my fortune in exchange!
Jack.
Demand some other time.—You offer well.—
The price, in public, I'm right loth to tell.
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