To say variety in love is wrong;

Besides, your sex, and decency, 'tis clear,

To ev'ry disadvantage you appear.

What use this eloquence, and what your aim?

Such charms alone as your's could me inflame;

Their pow'r is great, but fully I declare,

I do not like advances from the FAIR.

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To Constance this a thunder-clap appeared;