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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=114994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the same (Mr. L-----) II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=114994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">From plains and peaceful cots I send<br>The humble wishes of a friend:<br>May love still spread his silken wing,<br>And life to you be ever spring:<br>May virtue guide you with her clue,<br>Life's mazy path to wander thro';<br>And may your offspring the blest tract pursue:<br>On you may Heav'n benignly smile,<br>And inward peace external cares beguile;<br>Long may you live supremely blest,<br>Then die, and be a Saviour's guest.<br>The wish is o'er, permit me to descend<br>To the familiar converse of a friend.<br>Well, you've done right to get a wife,<br>For change the comfort is of life;<br>Besides, I've read in ancient story,<br>A virtuous wife's a crown of glory:<br>And yet 'tis true that some adorn<br>Their husband's brows with crown of horn:<br>The wisest man on earth we find<br>Was partial to the female kind,<br>Till he was trick'd a thousand ways,<br>(But men are wiser now-a-days)<br>Which made the honest Jew exclaim,<br>They were all vanities, and vain:<br>His father, you remember David,<br>Who tore Saul's skirt, and ran away with't,<br>He also had, (tho' lov'd of God)<br>Plurality of wives allow'd:<br>But since polygamy's abolish'd,<br>The wives are chaste, the husbands polish'd<br>Since with plagiary you've tax'd me,<br>And never since for pardon ask'd me,<br>To prove my false accuser guilty,<br>Repeat his borrow'd lines I will t'ye:</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=114994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> "No goose that swims, but soon or late"<br> "Will find some gander for a mate."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=114994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">You'll find this couplet, I'll engage,<br>In Wife of Bath, the hundredth page,<br>Volume the second,---works of Pope---<br>Brother, you're now convinc'd, I hope.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=114994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">However, what you prophesied<br>About the goose, is verified;<br>She's slipt her neck in marriage noose,<br>And owns a sov'reign Lord, and goose.<br>Adieu, Mon Cher Ami; the Muse<br>Begs you her freedom will excuse.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a></strong> from <em><a href="http://sources.citatepedia.com/from.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker&d=The+Posthumous+Works+of+Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</a></em></div>