Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilmot Earl of Rochester John & Paul Davis

Author:Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John & Paul Davis [Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

That frights th’enjoyer with succeeding pains:

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Women and men of wit are dangerous tools,

And ever fatal to admiring fools.

Pleasure allures, and when the fops escape,

’Tis not that they’re belov’d, but fortunate;

And therefore what they fear, at heart they hate.

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But now methinks some formal band and beard°

Takes me to task. Come on, sir, I’m prepar’d.

‘Then, by your favour, any thing that’s writ

Against this gibing, jingling knack called wit,

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