BALM. 
MELISSA OFFICINALIS. 
BALSAM, Rep. IMPATIENT RESOLVES. 
Touch me not. 
IMPATIENS. 
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=|’ BALSAM, Yetrow. Ivpatrence. Impatience waiteth on true sorrow. .... Ae: es Shaks. 
Who in patience parts with all delight....... Byron, 
Noli me tangere. 
IMPATIENS. 
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_What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say. 
Shaks. 
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A world of earthly blessings to my sou 
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. ahete Ten. VI. 
Love’s soft sympathy imparts 
That tender transport of delight 
Tha ts in undivided hearts 
me this fondness from my bosom tear, 
Let me forget that e’er I thought her fair: 
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g hopes of joy. . Lyttelton. 
No more my eyes shall view her fatal charms. 
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My future ease with flatterin 
Not all her arts my steady soul shall move, 
And she shall find that reason conquers love..... Id, 
T’ll not be made a soft and dull-eyed foo 
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, ay ‘yield. Shaks. 
Yield up, O love! ne crown, and hearted throne, 
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom! with thy fraught 
For ’tis of aspic’s tongues . Id. 
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ANSWER. 
In truth he wasastrange and wayward wight! Beattie. 
They can be meek, that have no other cause. . . 
Was she not all my fondest wish could frame? 
Did ever mind so much of heaven partake? . 
Ah! what avail my love an ings 
She listens ee no lowly sw: 
Her ¢ less some an ‘a Se 
Some eat i fortune’s titled 
Yet, will the youth, whoe’er he be, 
In truth or tenderness ik 
ee 7 he on thy charms. 
th fondness even -dying dwell? 
What though his boastful heart be 
Of all that birth or fortune gave, 
Yet is not mine, though rude and plain, 
At least as noble and as brave? 
. Shaw. 
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Tivsy’p BE ALL BUT PRIDE. 
To st 
heart against itself; ‘cane to conceal 
‘With proud caution, love" 
Is a stern task of soul—no matter—it is ta cht, Byron: 
