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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,<br>When men are duped by artful women's eves;<br>Though death his weapon freely will unfold;<br>Love's pranks, we find, are ever ruled by gold.<br>To vain coquettes I doubtless here allude;<br>But spite of arts with which they're oft endued;<br>I hope to show (our honour to maintain,)<br>We can, among a hundred of the train,<br>Catch one at least, and play some cunning trick:--<br>For instance, take blithe Gulphar's wily nick,<br>Who gained (old soldier-like) his ardent aim,<br>And gratis got an avaricious dame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOOK well at this, ye heroes of the sword,<br>Howe'er with wily freaks your heads be stored,<br>Beyond a doubt, at court I now could find,<br>A host of lovers of the Gulphar kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Gasperin's so often went our wight,<br>The wife at length became his sole delight,<br>Whose youth and beauty were by all confessed;<br>But, 'midst these charms, such av'rice she possessed,<br>The warmest love was checked--a thing not rare,<br>In modern times at least, among the FAIR.<br>'Tis true, as I've already said, with such<br>Sighs naught avail, and promises not much;<br>Without a purse, who wishes should express,<br>Would vainly hope to gain a soft caress.<br>The god of love no other charm employs,<br>Then cards, and dress, and pleasure's cheering joys;<br>From whose gay shops more cuckolds we behold,<br>Than heroes sallied from Troy's horse of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BUT to our lady's humour let's adhere;<br>Sighs passed for naught: they entered not her ear;<br>'Twas speaking only would the charmer please,<br>The reader, without doubt, my meaning sees;<br>Gay Gulphar plainly spoke, and named a sum<br>A hundred pounds, she listened:--was o'ercome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUR wight the cash by Gasperin was lent;<br>And then the husband to the country went,<br>Without suspecting that his loving mate,<br>Designed with horns to ornament his pate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE money artful Gulphar gave the dame,<br>While friends were round who could observe the same;<br>Here, said the spark, a hundred pounds receive,<br>'Tis for your spouse:--the cash with you I leave.<br>The lady fancied what the swain had said,<br>Was policy, and to concealment led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NEXT morn our belle regaled the arch gallant,<br>Fulfilled his promise:--and his eager want.<br>Day after day he followed up the game;<br>For cash he took, and int'rest on the same;<br>Good payers get, we always may conclude,<br>Full measure served, whatever is pursued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN Gasperin returned, our crafty wight,<br>Before the wife addressed her spouse at sight;<br>Said he the cash I've to your lady paid,<br>Not having (as I feared) required its aid;<br>To save mistakes, pray cross it in your book;<br>The lady, thunderstruck, with terror shook;<br>Allowed the payment; 'twas a case too clear;<br>In truth for character she 'gan to fear.<br>But most howe'er she grudged the surplus joy,<br>Bestowed on such a vile, deceitful boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE loss was doubtless great in ev'ry view<br>Around the town the wicked Gulphar flew;<br>In all the streets, at every house to tell,<br>How nicely he had trick'd the greedy belle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To blame him useless 'twere you must allow;<br>The French such frolicks readily avow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=La+Fontaine">La Fontaine</a><div class=q>
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When men are duped by artful women's eves;
Though death his weapon freely will unfold;
Love's pranks, we find, are ever ruled by gold.
To vain coquettes I doubtless here allude;
But spite of arts with ..."></div>
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