He chang'd his country, but retain'd his love. Not touch me! never neighbour call'd me slut : Some say the devil himself is in that mare: If so, our Dean shall drive him forth by prayer. Some think you mad, some think you are possess'd, That bedlam and clean straw will suit you best. vain means, alas, this frenzy to appease ! That straw, that straw would heighten the disease. My bed (the scene of all our former joys, Witness two lovely girls, two lovely boys) Alone I press in dreams I call my dear, I stretch my hand; no Gulliver is there! I wake, I rise, and shivering with the frost Search all the house; my Gulliver is lost! Forth in the street I rush with frantic cries; The windows open, all the neighbours rise: "Where sleeps my Gulliver? O tell me where!" The neighbours answer, "With the sorrel mare." At early morn I to the market haste * Name of a sea captain mentioned in Gulliver's Travels. (Studious in every thing to please thy taste); A curious fowl and 'sparagus I chose (For I remember'd you were fond of those); 232 THE POEMS OF POPE. Lord! when the giant babe that head of thine And all thy dangers I weep o'er again. O teach me, dear, new words to speak my flame! Or Glumglum's humbler title soothe thy ear: ADVERTISEMENT. THE hint of the following piece was taken from Chaucer's House of Fame. The design is in a manner entirely altered, the descriptions and most of the particular thoughts my own: yet I could not suffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment. The reader who would compare this with Chaucer, may begin with his third Book of Fame, there being nothing in the two first books that answers to their title. |