Both studied, tho’ both seemed neglected;
Careless she is with artful care,
Affecting to seem unaffected.
With skill her eyes dart every glance,
Yet change so soon, you’d ne’er suspect ’em,
For she’d persuade they wound by chance,
Tho’ certain aim and art direct them.”
They are very pretty; yet are you not sure that our wheezing, phlegmatic, business-loving, Dutch King William would have sniffed contemptuously at the reading of any such verselets?