The red, the grey, the dingy, or the white.

Perhaps some half-baked rover, frank and free,

To alien beauty bends the lawless knee,

But of unhallow'd fascinations sick,

Soon quits his Cyprian for his married brick;

The Dido atom calls and scolds in vain,

No crisp Æneas soothes the widow's pain.

So in Cheapside, what time Aurora peeps,

A mingled noise of dustmen, milk, and sweeps,

Falls on the housemaid's ear; amaz'd she stands,