Charg’d to say nought but what the king may hear?
Or rather melt your sympathising hearts,
Won by her tragic scene’s romantic arts,
Where old and young declaim on soft desire,
And heroes never, but for love, expire?
No. Though the charms of novelty, awhile,
Perhaps too fondly win your thoughtless smile,
Yet not for you design’d indulgent fate
The modes or manners of the Bourbon state.
And ill your minds my partial judgment reads,