The Clown's Reply

"When lovely woman stoops to folly,     And finds too late that men betray,     What charm can soothe her melancholy,     What art can wash her"

"Thanks, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter     Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter;     The haunch was a picture for pa"

"Of old, when Scarron his companions invited,     Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united;     If our landlord supplies us with bee"

"Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,     Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain,     Where smiling spring its earliest vis"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"