“Keep thou this moral in thy mind,

T’ enjoy, but not abuse.”

FABLE XIV.
THE BLUE-BELL; or,
Venus’s Looking-Glass.

I.

O’ER verdant lawns, and dappled meads,

The young Belinda stray’d;

On ev’ry tree, on ev’ry flow’r,

Philosophis’d the maid.

II.

The Cowslip, and the Primrose too,