Major Pack's Poetical Remains Published from his Original Manuscripts. To which are Added, translations from Catullus, Tibullus, and Ovid. With an Essay on the Roman elegiac poets, &c. [by Richardson Pack] |
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I
How curs'd is his Fate, who at One time does prove,The Fetters of Wedlock, and Bondage of Love;
Who chain'd to a Gally that's running a-drift,
Meets no friendly Sail that will give him a Lift.
II
What fantastical Notions in Women we find'Cause One is unjust, all the Rest are unkind.
Their Honour, they tell you, prescribes these Reserves.
For their Honour (Gadzooks) an honest Man Starves.
III
Methinks the Two Sexes might better agree;(I wish, faith for once, they'd be Counsell'd by me)
Let all Parties aggriev'd, e'en make an Exchange,
Then Husbands, and Wives, might have each their Revenge.
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