Matthew Prior. Poems on Several Occasions | ||
Forma Bonum Fragile.
What a frail Thing is Beauty, says Baron Le Cras,Perceiving his Mistress had one Eye of Glass:
And scarcely had He spoke it;
When She more confus'd, as more angry She grew,
By a negligent Rage prov'd the Maxim too true:
She dropt the Eye, and broke it.
Matthew Prior. Poems on Several Occasions | ||