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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345343" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mr. F. Now Earl of W</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, <br>But, your Injunction thought upon,<br> ARDELIA took the Pen; <br>Designing to perform the Task,<br>Her FLAVIO did so kindly ask,<br> Ere he returned agen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto Parnassus strait she sent, <br>And bid the Messenger, that went<br> Unto the Muses Court,<br>Assure them, she their Aid did need,<br>And begg'd they'd use their utmost Speed,<br> Because the Time was short. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hasty Summons was allow'd;<br>And being well-bred, they rose and bow'd,<br> And said, they'd poste away;<br>That well they did ARDELIA know,<br>And that no Female's Voice below<br> They sooner wou'd obey: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That many of that rhiming Train,<br>On like Occasions, sought in vain<br> Their Industry t'excite;<br>But for ARDELIA all they'd leave:<br>Thus flatt'ring can the Muse deceive,<br> And wheedle us to write. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, since there was such haste requir'd;<br>To know the Subject 'twas desir'd,<br> On which they must infuse;<br>That they might temper Words and Rules,<br>And with their Counsel carry Tools,<br> As Country-Doctors use. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore to cut off all Delays,<br>'Twas soon reply'd, a Husband's Praise<br> (Tho' in these looser Times)<br>ARDELIA gladly wou'd rehearse<br>A Husband's, who indulg'd her Verse,<br> And now requir'd her Rimes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Husband! eccho'd all around:<br>And to Parnassus sure that Sound<br> Had never yet been sent;<br>Amazement in each Face was read,<br>In haste th'affrighted Sisters fled, <br> And unto Council went. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Erato cry'd, since Grizel's Days,<br>Since Troy-Town pleas'd, and Chivey-chace,<br> No such Design was known;<br>And 'twas their Bus'ness to take care,<br>It reach'd not to the publick Ear,<br> Or got about the Town: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor came where Evening Beaux were met<br>O'er Billet-doux and Chocolate,<br> Lest it destroy'd the House;<br>For in that Place, who cou'd dispence<br>(That wore his Cloaths with common Sense)<br> With mention of a Spouse? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas put unto the Vote at last,<br>And in the Negative it past,<br> None to her Aid shou'd move;<br>Yet since ARDELIA was a Friend,<br>Excuses 'twas agreed to send,<br> Which plausible might prove: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That Pegasus of late had been <br>So often rid thro' thick and thin,<br> With neither Fear nor Wit;<br>In Panegyrick been so spurr'd <br>He cou'd not from the Stall be stirr'd,<br> Nor wou'd endure the Bit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Melpomene had given a Bond, <br>By the new House alone to stand,<br> And write of War and Strife;<br>Thalia, she had taken Fees,<br>And Stipends from the Patentees,<br> And durst not for her Life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Urania only lik'd the Choice; <br>Yet not to thwart the publick Voice,<br> She whisp'ring did impart:<br>They need no Foreign Aid invoke,<br>No help to draw a moving Stroke,<br> Who dictate from the Heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enough! the pleas'd ARDELIA cry'd;<br>And slighting ev'ry Muse beside,<br> Consulting now her Breast,<br>Perceiv'd that ev'ry tender Thought,<br>Which from abroad she'd vainly sought,<br> Did there in Silence rest: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And shou'd unmov'd that Post maintain,<br>Till in his quick Return again,<br> Met in some neighb'ring Grove,<br>(Where Vice nor Vanity appear)<br>Her FLAVIO them alone might hear,<br> In all the Sounds of Love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For since the World do's so despise<br>Hymen's Endearments and its Ties, <br> They shou'd mysterious be;<br>Till We that Pleasure too possess<br>(Which makes their fancy'd Happiness)<br> Of stollen Secrecy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Kingsmill+Finch">Anne Kingsmill Finch</a><div class=q>
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But, your Injunction thought upon,
 ARDELIA took the Pen; 
Designing to perform the Task,
Her FLAVIO did so kindly ask,
 Ere he returned agen. 

Unto Parnassus strait she sent, 
And bid the Messenger, that went
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