Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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Thou lov’st amiss;

And to love true,

Thou must begin again, and love anew.

III.

If, fondly, thou dost not mistake,

And all defects for graces take,

Persuad’st thyself that jests are broken,

When she has little or nothing spoken,—

Know this,

Thou lov’st amiss;