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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431372" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Indiscreet Confessions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,<br>Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,<br>Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,<br>And all that should a husband render blessed,<br>The mother still retained her 'neath the wing;<br>Her father's riches well might lovers bring;<br>Whate'er his daughter wished, he would provide,<br>Amusements, jewels, dress, and much beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BLITHE Damon for her having felt the dart,<br>The belle received the offer of his heart;<br>So well he managed and expressed his flame.<br>That soon her lord and master he became,<br>By Hymen's right divine, you may conceive,<br>And nothing short of it you should believe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A YEAR had passed, and still our charming pair,<br>Were always pleased, and blisses seemed to share;<br>(The honeymoon appeared but just began)<br>And hopes were entertained to have a son,<br>When Damon on the subject chanced to touch:<br>In truth, said he, my soul is troubled much;<br>There is a fact, my dear, to you I'll tell:<br>I wish sincerely (since I love so well)<br>That for another, I had never known<br>Such fond affection as to you I've shown;<br>And none but you had entered in my breast,<br>So worthy ev'ry way to be caressed.<br>I have howe'er experienced other flame;<br>The fault's acknowledged: I confess my shame.<br>'Twas in a wood; the nymph was young and nice,<br>And Cupid only near to give advice;<br>So well he managed:--or so ill, you'll say;<br>A little girl I've living at this day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT, cried Aminta, now to you I'll state;<br>What happened once to be your spouse's fate;<br>I was at home alone, to say the truth,<br>When thither came by chance a sprightly youth.<br>The lad was handsome, with engaging mien;<br>I felt his worth:--my nature is serene;<br>In short so many things were our employ,<br>I've still upon my hands a little boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THESE words no sooner had escaped the belle,<br>Than Damon into jealous torments fell;<br>With rage he left the room; and on his way,<br>A large pack-saddle near his footsteps lay,<br>Which on his back he put, then cried aloud,<br>I'm saddled! see; round quickly came a crowd;<br>The father, mother, all the servants ran;<br>The neighbours too; the husband then began<br>To state the circumstance that gave him pain;<br>And fully all the folly to explain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE reader must not fail to keep in mind;<br>Aminta's parents were both rich and kind,<br>And having only her to be their heir,<br>The aged couple let the youthful pair,<br>With all their train, within the house reside,<br>And tranquilly the moments seemed to glide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THU mother fondly to her daughter flew;<br>The father followed, keeping her in view;<br>The dame went in, but he remained without:<br>To listen he designed beyond a doubt;<br>The door was on the jar; the sage drew near;<br>In short, to all they said, he lent an ear;<br>The lady thus he heard reproach her child:<br>You're clearly wrong; most silly may be styled;<br>I've many simpletons and ninnies seen;<br>But such as you before there ne'er has been:<br>Who'd have believed you indiscreet like this?<br>Who forced you to reveal what was amiss?<br>What obligation to divulge the fact?<br>More girls than one have failed to be exact;<br>The Devil's crafty; folks are wicked too;<br>But that is no excuse, however true;<br>In convents all of us should be immured,<br>Till perfectly by Hymen's bands secured.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">E'EN I who speak, alas! have troubles met;<br>Within my bosom oft I feel regret;<br>Three children ere my marriage I had got;<br>Have I your father told this secret blot?<br>Have we together been less happy found?<br>The list'ner had no sooner heard the sound,<br>But like a man distracted off he flew;<br>The saddle's girth, which hazard near him threw;<br>He took and fastened tightly 'bout his waist,<br>Then bawled around and round with anxious haste;<br>I'm girth'd! d'ye see, completely taken in;<br>The people stared, an 'gan to laugh and grin.<br>Though each was conscious, if the truth were known;<br>The ridicule in turn might be his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BOTH husbands madly ran from cross to square,<br>And with their foolish clamours rent the air;<br>I'm saddled, hooted one; I'm girth'd, said this;<br>The latter some perhaps will doubt, and hiss;<br>Such things however should not be disbelieved<br>For instance, recollect (what's well received),<br>When Roland learned the pleasures and the charms;<br>His rival, in the grot, had in his arms,<br>With fist he gave his horse so hard a blow,<br>It sunk at once to realms of poignant woe.<br>Might he not, training, round the hapless beast,<br>From weight of saddle have its back released,<br>And putting it upon his own, have cried,<br>I'm saddled, I'm girth'd, and much beside;<br>(No matter this or that, since each is good,)<br>Which Echo would repeat from hill to wood?<br>You see that truth may be discovered here;<br>That's not enough; its object should appear;<br>And that I'll show as further we proceed;<br>Your full attention I of course shall need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE happy Damon clearly seems to me,<br>As poor a thing as any we shall see;<br>His confidence would soon have spoiled the whole,<br>To leave a belle like this without control!<br>Her simplicity I much admire:--<br>Confess herself to spouse, as if a friar!<br>What silliness! imprudence is a word,<br>Which here to use would truly be absurd.<br>To my discourse two heads alone remain;<br>The marriage vow you always should maintain;<br>Its faith the pair should ever keep in view:<br>The path of honour steadily pursue.<br>If some mishap howe'er should chance to glide;<br>And make you limp on one or t'other side,<br>Endeavour, of the fault, to make the best,<br>And keep the secret locked within your breast;<br>Your own consideration never lose;<br>Untruth 'tis pardonable then to use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No doubt my pages nice advice supply;<br>Is't what I've followed?--No, you may rely!</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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