49. EPIGRAM. On Rodia.
IF ought to Rodia you do give in Charge,
And leave the thing to her to do at large,
Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
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- Innocui Sales. A collection of new epigrams Vol. I. With a præfatory essay on epigrammatic poetry.
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- Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.
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- 1694.
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No thought about it she at all will take:
But act like one, that is but half awake.
Knowing of this, if you to her shall say,
I'd have it done precisely such a way:
Then she begins to think, each Stone to turn,
An other way to do't, and yours to shun.
If this displeases, she her Case bewails,
Thinks you to blame, and that she never fails.
There's no so awkward and vexatious Tool,
As an unthinking or a thinking Fool.