<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431459" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Written in a Blank Page of Milton's Paradise Lost</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This happy pair a certain bliss might prove, <br>Confin'd to constancy and mutual love: <br>Heaven to one object limited their vows, <br>The only safety faithless Nature knows. <br>God saw the wand'ring appetite would range, <br>And would have kept them from the pow'r to change; <br>But falsehood, soon as man increas'd, began; <br>Down through the race the swift contagion ran, <br>All ranks are tainted, all deceitful prove, <br>False in all shapes, but doubly false in love. <br>This makes the censure of the world more just, <br>That damns with shame the weakness of a trust! <br>Ere change began, our sex no scandal knew, <br>All nymphs were chaste as long as swains were true; <br>But now, tho' by the subtlest art betray'd, <br>We're so by custom and false maxims sway'd <br>That infamy still brands the injur'd maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lady+Mary+Wortley+Montagu">Lady Mary Wortley Montagu</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431459" data-title="Lines Written in a Blank Page of Milton's Paradise Lost de Lady Mary Wortley Montagu" data-description="This happy pair a certain bliss might prove, Confin'd to constancy and mutual love: Heaven to one object limited their vows, The only safety faithless Nature knows. God saw the wand'ring appetite would range, And would have kept them from the..."></div> </div> </div>

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