T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Upon a Ladys Being Disappointed by a Young Scotch Lord
By Thomas Brown (16621704)(1704) YOUNG Caledon has all the charms | |
That can engage the fair; | |
A tongue that every heart disarms, | |
A soft bewitching air. | |
But see what fate attends a drone! | 5 |
He loves what he takes, | |
And when the fortress is his own, | |
His victory forsakes. | |
At her expense this fatal truth | |
Melissa late did prove, | 10 |
Neither her beauty nor her youth | |
Could long secure his love: | |
The lavish hero fired too fast, | |
So vain was his ambition, | |
That when three poor attacks were past, | 15 |
He wanted ammunition. | |
Were it inconstancy alone, | |
Art might the youth reclaim; | |
But when love’s vital oil is gone, | |
What can revive the flame? | 20 |
Ye Gods, by whom my hopes are curst, | |
Once grant me what I pray, | |
Give Caledon less heat at first, | |
Or better Funds to pay. | |