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Jeft and youthful Jollity, re

Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,

And love to live in dimple fleek;

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Sport that wrinkled Care derides,

And Laughter holding both his fides.
Come, and trip it as you go

On the light fantastic toe,

And in thy right hand lead with thee,

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The mountain nymph, fweet Liberty;
And if I give thee honor due,
Mirth, admit, me of thy crew

To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleafares free;
To hear the lark begin his flight,
And finging ftartle the dull night,
From his watch-tower in the flies,
Till the dappled dawn doth rife
Then to come in fpite of forrow,

e;

And at my window bid good-morrow,

Or the twisted eglantine ;

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Through the fweet-briar, or the vine,

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And to the ftack, or the barn- door,

Stoutly ftruts his dames before:

Oft liftening how the hounds and horn
Chearly roule the flumbering morn,
From the fide of fome hoar hill,
Through the high wood echoing thrill:
Some time walking not unfeen

By hedge- -row elms, on hillocs green,
Right against the eastern gate,

Where the great fun begins his state,
Rob'd in flames and amber light,
The clouds in thoufand liveries dight,
While the plow-man near at hand
Whistles o'er the furrow'd land,
And the milkmaid fingeth blithe,
And the mower whets his fithe,
And every fhepherd tells his tale

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Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasures
Whilft the landfkip-round it measures,

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Ruffet lawns, and fallows gray,

Where the nibbling flocks do ftray,

Mountains on whofe barren breast
The lab'ring clouds do often rèft,
Meadows trin with daifies pied,
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
Towers and battlements it fees

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Bofom'd high in tufted trees,
Where perhaps fome beauty lies,
The Cynofure of neighb'ring eyes.
Hard by, a cottage chimney fmokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks,
Where Corydon and Thyrfis inet,

Are at their favory dinner fet

Of herb

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Which the neat-handed Phillis dreffes;

And then in hafte her bow'r the leaves,

With Theltylis to bind the fheaves;

Or if the earlier feafon lead

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To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
Sometimes with fecure delight
The upland hamlets will invite,

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When the merry bells ring round,

And the jocond rebecs found

To many a youth, and many a maid,
Dancing in the chequer'd fhade;

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And young and old come forth to play
On a funfhine holy-day,

Till the live-long day-light fail;
Then to the fpicy nut-brown ale,
With stories told of inany a feat,
How faery Mab the junkets eat,
She was pincht and pull'd, the faid,
And he by frier's lanthorn led

Tells how the drudging Goblin fwet,
To earn his cream-bowl duly fer,
When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His fhadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn,
That ten day laborers could not end;
Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,

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And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length,

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Basks at the fire his hairy itrength,

And crop-full out of doors he flings,

Ere the first cock his matin rings.

Thus done the tales, to bed they creep,

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By whispering winds foon lull'd afleep.
Towred cities please us then,

And the bufy hum of men,

Where throngs of knights and barons bold
In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,
With store of ladies, whofe bright eyes

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Rain influence, and judge the prize

Of wit, or arms, while both contend

To win her grace, whom all commend,
There let Hymen oft appear

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In faffron robe, with taper clear,

And pomp, and feat, and revelry,
With mafk and antique pageantry,
Such fights as youthful poets dream,
On fummer eves by haunted fream.

Then to the well-trod ftage anon,
If Jonfon's learned fock be on,
Or fweetest Shakespear, faucy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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And ever against eating cares,
Lap me in foft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal verfe,
Such as the meeting foul may pierce
In notes, with many a winding bout
Of linked fweetnefs long drawn out,
With wanton heed, and giddy cunning,
The melting voice through mazes running,
Untwisting all the chains that ty

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XIV.

IL PENSER OS O.

ENCE, vain deluding joys, "

HENCE,

The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted,

Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in fome idle brain,

And fancies fond with gaudy fhapes poffefs, As thick and nuinberlefsi

As the gay motes that people the fun-beams,
dreams

Or likelieft hovering of Morpheus' train.
The fickle penfioners

But hail, thou Goddefs, fage and holy!

Hail, divinest Melancholy!

Whofe faintly vifage is too bright

To hit the fenfe of human fight,

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And therefore to our weaker view

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O'erlaid with black, ftaid wifdom's hue;

Black, but fuch as in efteem

Prince Memnon's fifter might befeem,

Or that ftarr'd Ethiop queen that ftrove

To fet her beauties' praife above

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The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended:

Yet thou art higher far, defcended,

Thee bright-hair'd Vefta long of yore

To folitary Saturn bore;

His daughter fhe (in Saturn's reign,

Such mixture was not held a ftain).
Oft in glimmering bowers and glades

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He met her, and in fecret fhades
Of woody Ida's inmost grove,
While yet there was no fear of Jove.

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Come,

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