 | Beasts at law, or zoologian jurisprudence |  |
It will, your honors, be our duty
To impeach the credit of this beauty;
To open to your comprehension,
The nature of the fears I mention.
It is, your honors of the jury,
The merciless, unrelenting fury,
Which does and always will arise,
When we a female's love despise.
Of all the furies we could mention,
Of earth, or hell, or fiend's invention;
Dragons, vipers, scorpions, adders,
Rattle-snakes with poison bladders;
Crocodiles and alligators,
With the worst of fiend-like natures;
Can never be compared, for harms,
To females with neglected charms.
It will, of course, become your duty,
With this exasperated beauty,
To watch, with scrutinizing eye,
Her arts and machinations sly.
Vengeance is rankling in her heart,
And summons all her motionless art;
Her poison'd tongue can sting the soul,
And nothing can its power controul;
Deep is perdition's baseless pit,
But her revenge is deeper yet.
To impeach the credit of this beauty;
To open to your comprehension,
The nature of the fears I mention.
It is, your honors of the jury,
The merciless, unrelenting fury,
Which does and always will arise,
When we a female's love despise.
Of all the furies we could mention,
Of earth, or hell, or fiend's invention;
Dragons, vipers, scorpions, adders,
Rattle-snakes with poison bladders;
Crocodiles and alligators,
With the worst of fiend-like natures;
Can never be compared, for harms,
To females with neglected charms.
It will, of course, become your duty,
With this exasperated beauty,
To watch, with scrutinizing eye,
Her arts and machinations sly.
Vengeance is rankling in her heart,
And summons all her motionless art;
Her poison'd tongue can sting the soul,
And nothing can its power controul;
Deep is perdition's baseless pit,
But her revenge is deeper yet.
| Beasts at law, or zoologian jurisprudence | |