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675. DENIAL IN WOMEN NO DISHEARTENING TO MEN.
Women, although they ne'er so goodly make it,
Their fashion is, but to say no, to take it.
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676. ADVERSITY.
Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.
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677. TO FORTUNE.
Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruins, smiling yet;
Tear me to tatters, yet I'll be
Patient in my necessity.
Laugh at my scraps of clothes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection;
Yet, scare-crow-like, I'll walk as one
Neglecting thy derision.
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678. TO ANTHEA.
Come, Anthea, know thou this,
Love at no time idle is;
Let's be doing, though we play
But at push-pin half the day;
Chains of sweet bents let us make
Captive one, or both, to take:
In which bondage we will lie,
Souls transfusing thus, and die.
Push-pin, a childish game in which one player placed a pin and the other pushed it.
Bents, grasses.
