Cupid and Hymen a Voyage to the Isles of love and matrimony. Containing A most Diverting Account of the Inhabitants of those Two Vast and Populous Countries, their Laws, Customs, and Government. Interspersed With many useful Directions and Cautions how to avoid the dangerous Precipices and Quicksands that these Islands abound with, and wherein so many Thousands, who have undertaken the Voyage, have miserably perished. By the Facetious H. C. [i.e. Henry Carey] and T. B.: To which are added, a map of the Island of Marriage; The Batchelor's Estimate of the Expences attending a Married Life. The Married Man's Answer to it; None but Fools Marry, a Vindication of the Estimate; and a Boulster Lecture, &c. By Simon Single ... The Fourth Edition |
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[Despair's dire Lake, where Nymphs and Swains forlorn]
Despair's dire Lake, where Nymphs and Swains forlorn,
Cease to be Objects of their Victor's Scorn;
Hopeless to be belov'd, worn out with Pain,
And having languish'd Months and Years in vain,
Finding their Loves inexorable quite,
And listless without them to bear the Light,
Thither they come, resolv'd to end the Strife,
And put an End at once to Love and Life.
Birds of ill Omen hover in the Air,
And by their croaking Noise inspire Despair;
Whilst Thousands of wild Swans a Consort make,
And sing their mournful Dirges on the Lake;
Whose plaintive Harmony, and dying Strains,
Seem to lament th'expiring Lovers Pains.
Cease to be Objects of their Victor's Scorn;
Hopeless to be belov'd, worn out with Pain,
And having languish'd Months and Years in vain,
Finding their Loves inexorable quite,
And listless without them to bear the Light,
Thither they come, resolv'd to end the Strife,
And put an End at once to Love and Life.
Birds of ill Omen hover in the Air,
And by their croaking Noise inspire Despair;
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And sing their mournful Dirges on the Lake;
Whose plaintive Harmony, and dying Strains,
Seem to lament th'expiring Lovers Pains.
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