No stiff-starch'd stays make meddling fingers ache

(Transferr'd to those ambiguous things that ape

Goats in their visage, women in their shape):

No damsel faints when rather closely press'd,

But more caressing seems when most caress'd;

Superfluous hartshorn and reviving salts;

Both banished, by the sovereign cordial, "Waltz".

Seductive Waltz!—though on thy native shore

Even Werter's self proclaim'd thee half a whore:

Werter—to decent vice though much inclined,