William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
The Plaything ChangedAnonymous
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Syren-like, first caught my fancy;
Wit and humour next take place,
And now I doat on sprightly Nancy.
With airs most languishing and dying;
Calls me false ungrateful swain,
And tries in vain to shoot me flying.
Always humorous, gay and witty,
Has talk’d herself into my heart,
And quite excluded tuneful Kitty.
Now pleased with song, and now with prattle,
Still longing for the nearest toy,
Has chang’d his whistle for a rattle.