The Works of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester / Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, and other Occasional Poems

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Consisting of Satires, Songs, Translations, AND OTHER Occasional POEMS.
LONDON : Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster . 1718. Price 1 s.
FINIS.

ere I, who to my Cost already am, One of those strange, prodigious Creatures Man ,
A Spirit free, to chuse for my own Share, What Sort of Flesh and Blood I pleas’d to wear, I’d be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear;
In hopes still to o’ertake the skipping Light, The Vapour dances in his dazzled Sight, Till spent, it leaves him to eternal Night.
Pleasure allures, and when the Fops escape, ’Tis not that they’re belov’d, but fortunate; And therefore what they fear, at Heart they hate.
Perhaps my Muse were fitter for this Part; For I profess I can be very smart On Wit, which I abhor with all my Heart.
I long to lash it in some sharp Essay, But your grand Indiscretion bids me stay, And turns my Tide of Ink another Way.