The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto |
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CVII
A FABLE
In Aesop's Tales an honest Wretch we find,
Whose Years and Comforts equally declin'd;
He in two Wives had two domestick Ills,
For different Age they had and different Wills
One pluckt his Black Hairs out, and one his Grey,
The Man for quietness did both obey,
Till all his Parish saw his Head quite bare,
And thought he wanted Brains as well as Hair.
Whose Years and Comforts equally declin'd;
He in two Wives had two domestick Ills,
For different Age they had and different Wills
One pluckt his Black Hairs out, and one his Grey,
The Man for quietness did both obey,
Till all his Parish saw his Head quite bare,
And thought he wanted Brains as well as Hair.
The Moral
The Parties hen-peckt W---m, are they Wives,The Hairs they pluck are thy Prerogatives;
Tories thy Person hate, the Whigs thy Power,
Tho much thou yieldest, till they tug for more,
Till this poor Man, and thou, alike are shown,
He without Hair, and thou without a Crown.
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