Hear, what late discourse of you,

Love and I have had; and true.

‘Mongst my Muses finding me,

Where he chanc’t your name to see

Set, and to this softer strain;

‘Sure,’ said he, ‘if I have brain,

This here sung can be no other,

By description, but my mother!

So hath Homer prais’d her hair;

So Anacreon drawn the air