Whom Pleasure keeps too busy to be wise;

Whom joys with soft varieties invite,

By day the frolic, and the dance by night;

Who frown with vanity, who smile with art,

And ask the latent fashion of the heart;

What care, what rules, your heedless charms shall save,

Each nymph your rival, and each youth your slave?

Against your fame with fondness hate combines,

The rival batters, and the lover mines.

With distant voice neglected Virtue calls,