Part 2 / Act 3 — EDWARD MOORE.
Reading edition
1712-1757.
Fable IX. The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat.
Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessened yours?
Fable X. The Spider and the Bee.
The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
The Happy Marriage.
Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.