I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.