No bride his absence mourned;
He play’d his charmer tit for tat;
He went but ne’er returned.
Philander kindly fill’d his place;
To Damon Chloe consented.
That night they wed, O woful case!
And ere next morn repented.
TO
A LADY,
A PATRONESS OF THE MUSES,
ON HER
RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS.
WHILE sickness, madam, on your vitals prey’d,