The poet might pretend this moral too,—
That when a wit and fool together woo,
The damsel (not to break an antient rule)
Should leave the wit, and take the wealthy fool.
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{ This he might mean: but there's a truth behind,
{ And, since it touches none of all our kind
{ But masks and misses, 'faith, I'll speak my mind.
What if he taught our sex more cautious carriage,
And not to be too coming before marriage;