But with my smiles seem’d easy.

But Chloe mark’d, that new made toast,

By other flirts surrounded,

Poor Celia now her charms had lost,

Which in last cent’ry wounded.

A whisper then and laugh went round,

Such scoffing I endured,

Nor did Philander heed my frown,

But by the jest was cured.

An easy passage through the crowd