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CRAPE MYRTLE. 
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Every word he speaks is a syren’s note 
To draw the careless hearer 
ge raptures flowed in every word, 
every motion, bee iy warmth divine, 
ra seize who listened 
Whose words all ears took captive 
With an eloquence—not like those rills Bo a height 
— ch sparkle, and foam, and in vapor are 7 
But a current that works out its way into 1 
Through the filtering recesses of thought t and sy ae 
Moor 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished. .... Shaks. 
hen Minerva. rose, 
From her sweet lips smooth elocution ‘flows 
Gaze as we learn, and as we listen, love 
Whose gentle ec teats without a word, 
Whose words h when unmeaning, are adored. 
Like cousshentale “breath from a shrine, 
Which our faith takes for granted are divine !, Moore. 
t the powerful a 
But soft une pag that Seda 
Sophocles’ ae. 
bi — to her, is to seem to a. 
ome enchanted labyrinth of ro rai 
waa nothing but the lovely fairy’ 8 Wi 
That wove the spell, can extricate the a . Scott. 
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For unto knight there is no greater shame, 
Than lightness, and inconstancy in love. ... 
Men’s fancies are more giddy and in 
More longing, eavectaig sooner lost and won, 
Than women’s are 
e wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat, 
It ever changeth with the next block 
No woman can endure a recreant knight... . Dryden. 
They know how fickle common love > 
Their oaths, and vows, are contibuiaty be eved, 
For few there are, but have been once nen see © 
Fickteness. Ladies whose love is constant as the wind. .. . Young. 
We in vain the fickle sex pursue, 
Who change the constant lover for the new... . Prior. 
nstancy no root in 
Of co xed, 
That either they love bere <4 or not long 
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