To hide her shame from ev’ry eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom—is to die.
A Paraphrase.
“When Woman,” as Goldsmith declares, “stoops to folly,”
And finds out too late that false man can “betray,”
She is apt to look dismal, and grow “melan-choly,”
And, in short, to be anything rather than gay.
He goes on to remark that “to punish her lover,