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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Clyster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;<br>To found our tales on what we can rely;<br>Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,<br>And seen how much realities persuade:<br>They draw attention: confidence awake;<br>Fictitious names however we should take,<br>And then the rest detail without disguise:<br>'Tis thus I mean to manage my supplies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT happened then near Mans, a Normand town,<br>For sapient people always of renown,<br>A maid not long ago a lover had<br>Brisk, pleasing, ev'ry way a handsome lad;<br>The down as yet was scarcely on his chin;<br>The girl was such as many wished to win:<br>Had charms and fortune, all that was desired,<br>And by the Mansian sparks was much admired;<br>Around they swarmed, but vain was all their art<br>Too much our youth possessed the damsel's heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE parents, in their wisdom, meant the fair<br>Should marry one who was a wealthy heir;<br>But she contrived to manage matters well;<br>In spite of ev'ry thing which might repel,<br>(I know not how) at length he had access;<br>Though whether through indulgence or address,<br>It matters not: perhaps his noble blood<br>Might work a change when fully understood:<br>The LUCKY, ev'ry thing contrives to please;<br>The rest can nothing but misfortune seize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE lover had success; the parents thought<br>His merit such as prudence would have sought;<br>What more to wish?--the miser's hoarded store:<br>The golden age's wealth is now no more,<br>A silly shadow, phantom of the brain;<br>O happy time! I see indeed with pain,<br>Thou wilt return:--in MAINE thou shalt arise;<br>Thy innocence, we fondly may surmise,<br>Had seconded our lover's ardent flame,<br>And hastened his possession of the dame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE slowness usually in parents found,<br>Induced the girl, whose heart by LOVE was bound;<br>To celebrate the Hymeneal scene,<br>As in the statutes of Cythera's queen.<br>Our legendary writers this define<br>A present contract, where they nothing sign;<br>The thing is common;--marriage made in haste:<br>LOVE'S perparation: Hymen's bit for taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>NOT much examination Cupid made,<br>As parent, lawyer, priest, he lent his aid,<br>And soon concluded matters as desired;<br>The Mansian wisdom no ways was required.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUR spark was satisfied, and with his belle,<br>Passed nights so happy, nothing could excel;<br>'Twere easy to explain;--the double keys,<br>And gifts designed the chambermaid to please,<br>Made all secure, and ev'ry joy abound;<br>The soft delights with secrecy were crowned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT happened that our fair one evening said,<br>To her who of each infant step had led,<br>But of the present secret nothing knew:--<br>I feel unwell; pray tell me what to do.<br>The other answered, you my dear must take<br>A remedy that easily I'll make,<br>A clyster you shall have to-morrow morn:<br>By me most willingly it will be borne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN midnight came the sly gallant appeared,<br>Unluckily no doubt, but he revered<br>The moments that so pleasantly were passed,<br>Which always seemed, he thought, to glide too fast;<br>Relief he sought, for ev'ry one below<br>Is destined torments more or less to know.<br>He not a word was told of things designed,<br>And just as our gallant to sleep inclined,<br>As oft's the case at length with lovers true,<br>Quite open bright Aurora's portals flew,<br>And with a smile the aged dame arrived;<br>The apparatus properly contrived,<br>Was in her hand, she hastened to the bed,<br>And took the side that to the stripling led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUR lady fair was instantly confused,<br>Or she precaution properly had used,<br>'Twas easy to have kept a steady face,<br>And 'neath the clothes the other's head to place.<br>Pass presently beyond the hidden swain,<br>And t'other side with rapid motion gain,<br>A thing quite natural, we should suppose;<br>But fears o'erpow'red; the frightened damsel chose<br>To hide herself, then whispered her gallant,<br>What mighty terrors made her bosom pant.<br>The youth was sage, and coolly undertook<br>To offer for her:--t'other 'gan to look,<br>With spectacles on nose: soon all went right;<br>Adieu, she cried, and then withdrew from sight.<br>Heav'n guard her steps, and all conduct away,<br>Whose presence secret friendships would betray:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHOULD this be thought a silly, idle tale;<br>(And that opinion may perhaps prevail)<br>To censure me, enough will surely try,<br>For criticks are severe, and these will cry,<br>Your lady like a simpleton escaped;<br>Her character you better might have shaped;<br>Which makes us doubt the truth of what is told:<br>Naught in your prologue like it we behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'TWERE sueless to reply: 'twould endless prove:<br>No arguments such censurers could move;<br>On men like these, devoid of sense or taste,<br>In vain might Cicero his rhet'rick waste.<br>Sufficient 'tis for me, that what is here,<br>I got from those who ev'ry-where appear<br>The friends of truth:--let others say the same;<br>What more would they expect should be my aim?</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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