Inconstant as the passing wind, 
“ winter's dreary frost yee: 
o fix her, ’twere a task as 
Tc il de ican ee mud, 
e was fair—and my passion begun 
a smiled—and I could not but lows 
She is faithless—and I am undone........ Shenstone. 
ANSWER. 
Lightly thou — that woman’s love is false, 
The thought is r far— 
For some of them are true as martyr’s legends, 
As full of suffering faith, of burning love 
Of high devotion—wort thi er of heaven than earth ; 
0, I do know a tale... ses. 60's Se bee bs GRNER, 
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LAUREL. Treacuery. 0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! .... Shaks, 
| 4 —— What is man’s love! His vows are broke, 
Even while his parting kiss is warm. ..... . . Halleck, 
He is composed and framed of treachery! ..... Shaks. 
ee her = bene many vows of faith, 
And ne’er a true one! ...... eee ee eens ree” S 
Vanished is the faith of oaths... ... Euripides’ Medea. 
Oh! colder than the wind that freezes 
Founts, that but now in agian played, 
Is that hata pang w 
The ting bosom when Sauipe eves tee Moore. 
whom 
wed heart had treasured ail its boast and pri ride, 
ves faithless........---++-+- Euripides’ Medea, 
And all this, too, from him whom once I deemed 
Stranger to fraud, nor capable of ill. 
Sophocles’ Philoctetes. 
Then ens thee well—I'd rather make 
My bower upon some icy lake, 
When eccrine suns begin to shine, 
Than trust to love so false as thine.......... Moore. 
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LAURUSTINUS. A toxen. A Laurustinus bear in blossom to my love... .. Anon. 
URNUM TINUS And mark me while 
ses ; By all = heart hath borne 48 bot by all it suffers 
In poi ‘or gladness, hope, despair, in bliss, or misery, 
I'll be, what I have ever been, to thee, to only thee! 
Moore. 
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‘43 BA sc 
