English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Alexander Pope
279. On a Certain Lady at Court
Henrietta Howard, Countess of SuffolkI
(Envy, be silent, and attend);
I know a reasonable woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a friend.
Not grave through pride, or gay through folly;
An equal mixture of good humour,
And sensible soft melancholy.
Yes, she has one, I must aver:
When all the world conspires to praise her
The woman’s deaf, and does not hear!