Therefore Alonzo never can succeed.

FROM
DELIA TO ALONZO.
WHO HAD SENT HER A SLIGHTING EPISTLE.

SIR, I your letter did peruse;

So elegant the style you use,

Abash’d, confounded I did muse

Struck with amaze;

Great wit and learning you diffuse

In all your lays.

You’ve been upon Parnassus’ top,