Volume 5 — A SONG.
Reading edition
Set by Mr. Damasene.
[Listen]
YOU happy Youths, whose Hearts are free From Love’s Imperial Chain, Henceforth be warn’d and taught by me, And taught by me to avoid inchanting Pain, Fatal the Wolves to trembling Flocks, Sharp Winds to Blossoms prove: To careless Seamen, hidden Rocks; To human quiet Love. Fly the Fair-Sex, if Bliss you prize, The Snake’s beneath the Flow’r: Whoever gaz’d on Beauties Eyes, That tasted Quiet more? The Kind with restless Jealousie, The Cruel fill with Care; With baser Falshood those betray, These kill us with Despair.
