[433] Page (to Monimia): "In the morning when you call me to you,
And by your bed I stand and tell you stories,
I am ashamed to see your swelling breasts;
It makes me blush, they are so very white."
Monimia: "Oh men, for flatt'ry and deceit renown'd!"—Ibid.
[434]Burns said, after his arrival in Edinburgh, "Between the man of rustic life and the polite world, I observed little difference.... But a refined and accomplished woman was a being altogether new to me, and of which I had formed but a very inadequate idea."—(Burns's Works, ed. Cunningham, 1832, 8 vols. I. 207.)
[435]Dryden says, in his "Essay on Satire," XIII. 30, "the staple to which my genius never much inclined me."
[436]"Essay on Satire," dedicated to the Earl of Dorset, XIII. 16.
[437]"Essay on Satire," XIII. 16.
[438]Ibid. 84.
[439]Dedication of the "Æneïs," XIV. 204.
[440]See Book III, chapter first, section IV.
[441]Ibid.
[442]Dedication of "The Indian Emperor," II. 261.