feign

Of rimes or riots at your feasts,

Orgies of drink or feign'd protests;

But simple love of greatness and of good,

Of rhymes, or riots, at your feasts,

Orgies of drink, or feign'd protests;

But simple love of greatness and of good,

* If I in thought felt not her very sorrow. '\ Whoever fully catches the tender melancholy

of these lines, will knotv that Julia under such distress could not feign a case so exactly the

parallel of her own, without such emotions as would speak themselves in every feature, and

Of Destiny, and spin her own free hours.

Such when I meant to feign, and wished to see,

My Muse bade Bedford write, and that was she!

Let me lie with thee, brown Cypass, to-day.

Ungrate, why feign'st new fears, and dost refuse?

Well may'st thou one thing for thy mistress use.[282]

Enjoy the wench; let all else be refused. 30

Vain causes feign of him, the true to hide,

And what she likes, let both hold ratified.

A clown, nor no love from her warm breast yields:

Be witness Crete (nor Crete doth all things feign)

Crete proud that Jove her nursery maintain. 20

Could it be more to call her Bride?

I feign’d her won: the mind finite,

Puzzled and fagg’d by stress and strain