 | Poems on several occasions |  |
To a KINSWOMAN.
Receiving some Eels through Mistake, occasioned the following Lines
As slipp'ry as an eel, we oftimes say,
Don't wonder then five eels should slip away;
Slipt from the father to a slipp'ry son,
Dear Poll forgive the slip that I have done.
Don't wonder then five eels should slip away;
Slipt from the father to a slipp'ry son,
Dear Poll forgive the slip that I have done.
To frame excuses, and on them to plead,
I might enlarge, did not my heart upbraid
Me with base falshood; but the whole direction
Too plainly told me of my own defection.
It was entitled: how dar'd I pretend
To violate the presents of a friend.
I might enlarge, did not my heart upbraid
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Too plainly told me of my own defection.
It was entitled: how dar'd I pretend
To violate the presents of a friend.
Oh! Flatt'ry curst, that my base heart did greet,
And Int'rest worse, when they together meet;
Sway'd by the one, to t'other quite a slave,
I fear I've prov'd myself both f--- and k---.
And Int'rest worse, when they together meet;
Sway'd by the one, to t'other quite a slave,
I fear I've prov'd myself both f--- and k---.
| Poems on several occasions | |