Was led to splendor, wealth, and dignity,
By generous Palemon wooed and won
To be his bride, (such happy fortune found
Her virtues, and deserved no less)—so think
Your beauty, temper’d with sweet bashful grace
Of modesty and native elegance,
So think these charms—not sparingly bestow’d
But in the pride and prodigality
Of liberal Nature, fashioning her work
To a rare excellence,—these shall inflame