In a cool fhade he lay with folded arms,
Curfes his fortune, and upbraids her charms;
When Venus to his wondering eyes appears,
And with these words relieves his amorous cares :
Rife happy youth; this bright machine furvey,
Whole rattling flicks my bufy fingers fway;
This prefent fhall thy cruel charmer move,
And in her fickle bofom kindle love.

The Fan fhall flutter in all female hands,
And various fafhions learn from various lands.
For this fhall elephants their ivory fhed;
And polish'd fticks the waving engine fpread:
His clouded mail the tortoife fhall refign,
And round the rivet pearly circles fhine.
On this fhall Indians all their art employ,
And with bright colours ftain the gaudy toy:
Their paint shall here in wildest fancies flow,
Their dress, their customs, their religion, show:
So fhall the British fair their minds improve,
And on the Fan to diftant climates rove.
Here China's ladies fhall their pride display,
And filver figures gild their loofe array;
This boafts her little feet and winking eyes;
That tunes the fife, or tinkling cymbal plies:
Here cross-legg'd nobles in rich state shall dine;
There in bright mail distorted heroes fhine.
The peeping Fan in modern times fhall rife,
Through which unfeen the female ogle flies;
This fhall in temples the fly maid conceal,
And fhelter love beneath devotion's veil.

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Gay France shall make the Fan her artist's care,
And with the coftly trinket arm the fair.

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As learned orators, that touch the heart,
With various action raise their foothing art,
Both head and hand affect the liftening throng,
And humour each expreffion of the tongue;

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So fhall each paffion by the Fan be seen,
From noify anger to the fullen fpleen.

While Venus fpoke, joy fhone in Strephon's eyes; Proud of the gift, he to Corinna flies.

But Cupid (who delights in amorous ill,

Wounds hearts, and leaves them to a woman's will)
With certain aim a golden arrow drew,
Which to Leander's panting bosom flew.
Leander lov'd; and to the sprightly dame
In gentle fighs reveal'd his growing flame :
Sweet fmiles Corinna to his fighs returns,

And for the fop in equal paffion burns.

Lo, Strephon comes! and, with a fuppliant bow, Offers the prefent, and renews his vow.

When the the fate of Niobe beheld,

Why has my pride against my heart rebell'd?
She fighing cry'd. Disdain forfook her breast,
And Strephon now was thought a worthy guest..
In Procris' bofom when she saw the dart,
She justly blames her own fufpicious heart,
Imputes her discontent to jealous fear,
And knows her Strephon's conftancy fincere.
When on Camilla's fate her eye fhe
No more for show and equipage the burns:

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She learns Leander's paffion to defpife,
And looks on merit with difcerning eyes.

Narciffus' change to the vain virgin shows,
Who trufts to beauty, trusts the fading rose.
Youth flies apace, with youth your beauty flies;
Love then, ye virgins, ere the bloffom dies.

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Thus Pallas taught her. Strephon weds the dame ; And Hymen's torch diffus'd the brightest flame.

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