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THE key which opes the chest of hoarded gold	A
Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold	A
To this the god of love has oft recourse	B
When arrows fail to reach the secret source	B
And I'll maintain he's right for 'mong mankind	C
Nice presents ev'ry where we pleasing find	C
Kings princes potentates receive the same	D
And when a lady thinks she's not to blame	D
To do what custom tolerates around	E
When Venus' acts are only Themis' found	E
I'll nothing 'gainst her say more faults than one	F
Besides the present have their course begun	F
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A MANTUAN judge espoused a beauteous fair	G
Her name was Argia Anselm was her care	G
An aged dotard trembling with alarms	H
While she was young and blessed with seraph charms	H
But not content with such a pleasing prize	I
His jealousy appeared without disguise	I
Which greater admiration round her drew	J
Who doubtless merited in ev'ry view	J
Attention from the first in rank or place	K
So elegant her form so fine her face	K
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'TWOULD endless prove and nothing would avail	L
Each lover's pain minutely to detail	L
Their arts and wiles enough 'twill be no doubt	M
To say the lady's heart was found so stout	M
She let them sigh their precious hours away	N
And scarcely seemed emotion to betray	N
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WHILE at the judge's Cupid was employed	O
Some weighty things the Mantuan state annoyed	O
Of such importance that the rulers meant	P
An embassy should to the Pope be sent	P
As Anselm was a judge of high degree	Q
No one so well embassador could be	Q
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'TWAS with reluctance he agreed to go	R
And be at Rome their mighty Plenipo'	S
The business would be long and he must dwell	T
Six months or more abroad he could not tell	T
Though great the honour he should leave his dove	U
Which would be painful to connubial love	U
Long embassies and journeys far from home	V
Oft cuckoldom around induce to roam	V
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THE husband full of fears about his wife	W
Exclaimed my ever darling precious life	W
I must away adieu be faithful pray	N
To one whose heart from you can never stray	N
But swear to me my duck for truth to tell	T
I've reason to be jealous of my belle	T
Now swear these sparks whose ardour I perceive	X
Have sighed without success and I'll believe	X
But still your honour better to secure	Y
From slander's tongue and virtue to ensure	Y
I'd have you to our country house repair	G
The city quit these sly gallants beware	G
Their presents too accurst invention found	E
With danger fraught and ever much renowned	E
For always in the world where lovers move	Z
These gifts the parent of assentment prove	Z
'Gainst those declare at once nor lend an ear	A2
To flattery their cunning sister peer	B2
If they approach shut straight both ears and eyes	I
For nothing you shall want that wealth supplies	I
My store you may command the key behold	A
Where I've deposited my notes and gold	A
Receive my rents expend whate'er you please	C2
I'll look for no accounts live quite at ease	C2
I shall be satisfied with what you do	J
If naught therein to raise a blush I view	J
You've full permission to amuse your mind	C
Your love howe'er for me alone's designed	C
That recollect must be for my return	D2
For which our bosoms will with ardour burn	D2
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THE good man's bounty seemingly was sweet	E2
All pleasures one excepted she might greet	E2
But that alas by bosoms unpossessed	E2
No happiness arises from the rest	E2
His lady promised ev'ry thing required	E2
Deaf blind and cruel whosoe'er admired	E2
And not a present would her hand receive	X
At his return he fully might believe	X
She would be found the same as when he went	E2
Without gallant or aught to discontent	E2
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HER husband gone she presently retired	E2
Where Anselm had so earnestly desired	E2
The lovers came but they were soon dismissed	E2
And told from visits they must all desist	E2
Their assiduities were irksome grown	F2
And she was weary of their lovesick tone	F2
Save one they all were odious to the fair	G
A handsome youth with smart engaging air	G
But whose attentions to the belle were vain	G2
In spite of arts his aim he could not gain	G2
His name was Atis known to love and arms	H
Who grudged no pains could he possess her charms	H
Each wile he tried and if he'd kept to sighs	I
No doubt the source is one that never dries	I
But often diff'rent with expense 'tis found	E2
His wealth was wasted rapidly around	E2
He wretched grew at length for debt he fled	E2
And sought a desert to conceal his head	E2
As on the road he moved a clown he met	E2
Who with his stick an adder tried to get	E2
From out a thicket where it hissing lay	N
And hoped to drive the countryman away	N
Our knight his object asked the clown replied	E2
To slay the reptile anxiously I tried	E2
Wherever met an adder I would kill	H2
The race should be extinct if I'd my will	H2
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WHY would'st thou friend said Atis these destroy	I2
God meant that all should freely life enjoy	I2
The youthful knight for reptiles had we find	E2
Less dread than what prevails with human kind	E2
He bore them in his arms they marked his birth	J2
From noble Cadmus sprung who when on earth	J2
At last to serpent was in age transformed	E2
The adder's bush the clown no longer stormed	E2
No more the spotted reptile sought to stay	N
But seized the time and quickly crept away	N
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AT length our lover to a wood retired	E2
To live concealed was what the youth desired	E2
Lorn silence reigned except from birds that sang	K2
And dells that oft with sweetest echo rang	K2
There HAPPINESS and frightful MIS'RY lay	N
Quite undistinguished classed with beasts of prey	N
That growling prowled in search of food around	E2
There Atis consolation never found	E2
LOVE thither followed and however viewed	E2
'Twas vain to hope his passion to elude	E2
Retirement fed the tender ardent flame	D
And irksome ev'ry minute soon became	D
Let us return cried he since such our fate	E2
'Tis better Atis bear her frowns and hate	E2
Than of her beauteous features lose the view	J
Ye nightingales and streams ye woods adieu	J
When far from her I neither see nor hear	A2
'Tis she alone my senses still revere	B2
A slave I am who fled her dire disdain	G2
Yet seek once more to wear the cruel chain	G2
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AS near some noble walls our knight arrived	E2
Which fairy hands to raise had once contrived	E2
His eyes beheld at peep of early morn	L2
When bright Aurora's beams the earth adorn	L2
A beauteous nymph in royal robes attired	E2
Of noble mien and formed to be admired	E2
Who t'ward him drew with pleasing gracious air	G
While he was wrapped in thought a prey to care	G
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SAID she I'd have you Atis happy be	Q
'Tis in my pow'r and this I hope to see	Q
A fairy greet me Manto is my name	D
Your friend and one you've served unknown the same	D
My fame you've heard no doubt from me proceeds	M2
The Mantuan town renowned for ancient deeds	M2
In days of yore I these foundations laid	E2
Which in duration equal I have made	E2
To those of Memphis where the Nile's proud course	B
Majestically flows from hidden source	B
The cruel Parcae are to us unknown	F2
We wond'rous magick pow'rs have often shown	F2
But wretched spite of this appears our lot	E2
Death never comes though various ills we've got	E2
For we to human maladies are prone	F2
And suffer greatly oft I freely own	F2
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ONCE in each week to serpents we are changed	E2
Do you remember how you here arranged	E2
To save an adder from a clown's attack	N2
'Twas I the furious rustick wished to hack	N2
When you assisted me to get away	N
For recompense my friend without delay	N
I'll you procure the kindness of the fair	G
Who makes you love and drives you to despair	G
We'll go and see her be assured from me	Q
Before two days are passed as I foresee	Q
You'll gain by presents Argia and the rest	E2
Who round her watch and are the suitor's pest	E2
Grudge no expense be gen'rous and be bold	E2
Your handfuls scatter lavish be of gold	E2
Assured you shall not want the precious ore	O2
For I command the whole of Plutus' store	O2
Preserved to please me in the shades below	R
This charmer soon our magick pow'r shall know	R
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THE better to approach the cruel belle	T
And to your suit her prompt consent compel	T
Myself transformed you'll prese	Q

Jean De La Fontaine

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