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YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place	A
The last effusions of my muse to grace	A
O charming Phillis may the same extend	B
Through time's dark night our praise together blend	B
To this we surely may pretend to aim	C
Your acting and my rhymes attention claim	C
Long long in mem'ry's page your fame shall live	D
You who such ecstacy so often give	E
O'er minds o'er hearts triumphantly you reign	F
In Berenice in Phaedra and Chimene	F
Your tears and plaintive accents all engage	G
Beyond compare in proud Camilla's rage	G
Your voice and manner auditors delight	H
Who strong emotions can so well excite	H
No fine eulogium from my pen expect	I
With you each air and grace appear correct	I
My first of Phillis's you ought to be	J
My sole affection had been placed on thee	J
Long since had I presumed the truth to tell	K
But he who loves would fain be loved as well	K
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NO hope of gaining such a charming fair	L
Too soon perhaps I ceded to despair	L
Your friend was all I ventured to be thought	M
Though in your net I more than half was caught	N
Most willingly your lover I'd have been	F
But time it is our story should be seen	F
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ONE day old Satan sov'reign dread of hell	K
Reviewed his subjects as our hist'ries tell	K
The diff'rent ranks confounded as they stood	O
Kings nobles females and plebeian blood	P
Such grief expressed and made such horrid cries	Q
As almost stunned and filled him with surprise	Q
The monarch as he passed desired to know	F
The cause that sent each shade to realms below	F
Some said my HUSBAND others WIFE replied	R
The same was echoed loud from ev'ry side	R
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His majesty on this was heard to say	S
If truth these shadows to my ears convey	S
With ease our glory we may now augment	T
I'm fully bent to try th' experiment	U
With this design we must some demon send	B
Who wily art with prudence well can blend	B
And not content with watching Hymen's flock	V
Must add his own experience to the stock	V
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THE sable senate instantly approved	W
The proposition that the monarch moved	W
Belphegor was to execute the work	X
The proper talent in him seemed to lurk	X
All ears and eyes a prying knave in grain	F
In short the very thing they wished to gain	F
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THAT he might all expense and cost defray	S
They gave him num'rous bills without delay	S
And credit too in ev'ry place of note	Y
With various things that might their plan promote	Y
He was besides the human lot to fill	Z
Of pleasure and of pain of good and ill	Z
In fact whate'er for mortals was designed	A2
With his legation was to be combined	A2
He might by industry and wily art	B2
His own afflictions dissipate in part	B2
But die he could not nor his country see	J
Till he ten years complete on earth should be	J
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BEHOLD him trav'lling o'er th' extensive space	A
Between the realms of darkness and our race	A
To pass it scarcely he a moment took	C2
On Florence instantly he cast a look	C2
Delighted with the beauty of the spot	N
He there resolved to fix his earthly lot	N
Regarding it as proper for his wiles	D2
A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles	D2
Belphegor soon a noble mansion hired	E2
And furnished it with ev'ry thing desired	E2
As signor Roderick he designed to pass	F2
His equipage was large of ev'ry class	F2
Expense anticipating day by day	S
What in ten years he had to throw away	S
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HIS noble entertainments raised surprise	Q
Magnificence alone would not suffice	G2
Delightful pleasures he dispensed around	H2
And flattery abundantly was found	H2
An art in which a demon should excel	K
No devil surely e'er was liked so well	K
His heart was soon the object of the FAIR	L
To please Belphegor was their constant care	L
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WHO lib'rally with presents smoothes the road	I2
Will meet no obstacles to LOVE'S abode	I2
In ev'ry situation they are sweet	J2
I've often said and now the same repeat	J2
The primum mobile of human kind	A2
Are gold and silver through the world we find	A2
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OUR envoy kept two books in which he wrote	Y
The names of all the married pairs of note	Y
But that assigned to couples satisfied	R
He scarcely for it could a name provide	R
Which made the demon almost blush to see	J
How few alas in wedlock's chains agree	J
While presently the other which contained	K2
Th' unhappy not a leaf in blank remained	K2
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No other choice Belphegor now had got	N
Than try himself the hymeneal knot	N
In Florence he beheld a certain fair	L
With charming face and smart engaging air	L
Of noble birth but puffed with empty pride	R
Some marks of virtue though not much beside	R
For Roderick was asked this lofty dame	C
The father said Honesta such her name	C
Had many eligible offers found	H2
But 'mong the num'rous band that hovered round	H2
Perhaps his daughter Rod'rick's suit might take	L2
Though he should wish for time the choice to make	L2
This approbation met and Rod'rick 'gan	F
To use his arts and execute his plan	F
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THE entertainments balls and serenades	J
Plays concerts presents feasts and masquerades	J
Much lessened what the demon with him brought	M
He nothing grudged whate'er was wished he bought	N
The dame believed high honour she bestowed	I2
When she attention to his offer showed	I2
And after prayers entreaties and the rest	M2
To be his wife she full assent expressed	M2
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BUT first a pettifogger to him came	C
Of whom aside Belphegor made a game	C
What said the demon is a lady gained	K2
just like a house these scoundrels have obtained	K2
Such pow'r and sway without them nothing's done	F
But hell will get them when their course is run	F
He reasoned properly when faith's no more	N2
True honesty is forced to leave the door	N2
When men with confidence no longer view	O2
Their fellow mortals happiness adieu	O2
The very means we use t' escape the snare	L
Oft deeper plunge us in the gulph of care	L
Avoid attorneys if you comfort crave	P2
Who knows a PETTIFOGGER knows a KNAVE	P2
Their contracts filled with IFS and FORS appear	Q2
The gate through which STRIFE found admittance here	R2
In vain we hope again the earth 'twill leave	S2
Still STRIFE remains and we ourselves deceive	S2
In spite of solemn forms and laws we see	J
That LOVE and HYMEN often disagree	J
The heart alone can tranquilize the mind	A2
In mutual passion ev'ry bliss we find	A2
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HOW diff'rent things in other states appear	Q2
With friends 'tis who can be the most sincere	Q2
With lovers all is sweetness balm of life	T2
While all is IRKSOMENESS with man and wife	T2
We daily see from DUTY springs disgust	U2
And PLEASURE likes true LIBERTY to trust	U2
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ARE happy marriages for ever flown	F
On full consideration I will own	F
That when each other's follies couples bear	L
They then deserve the name of HAPPY PAIR	L
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ENOUGH of this no sooner had our wight	H
The belle possessed and passed the month's delight	H
But he perceived what marriage must be here	R2
With such a demon in our nether sphere	Q2
For ever jars and discords rang around	H2
Of follies ev'ry class our couple found	H2
Honesta often times such noise would make	L2
Her screams and cries the neighbours kept awake	L2
Who running thither by the wife were told	V2
Some paltry tradesman's daughter coarse and bold	V2
He should have had not one of rank like me	J
To treat me thus what villain he must be	J
A wife so virtuous could he e'er deserve	W2
My scruples are too great or I should swerve	W2
Indeed without dispute 'twould serve him right	H
We are not sure she nothing did in spite	H
These prudes can make us credit what they please	J
Few ponder long when they can dupe with ease	J
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THIS wife and husband as our hist'ries say	J
Each moment squabbled through the passing day	J
Their disagreements often would arise	J
About a petticoat cards tables pies	J
Gowns chairs dice summer houses in a word	E2
Things most ridiculous and quite absurd	E2
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WELL might this spouse regret his Hell profound	H2
When he considered what he'd met on ground	H2
To make our demon's wretchedness complete	J2
Honesta's relatives from ev'ry street	J2
He seemed to marry since he daily fed	X2
The father mother sister fit to wed	X2
And l	K

Jean De La Fontaine

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