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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)
Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)