To a False Fickle Mistress, Accusing Me of Her Own Fault
I.
Variety I love, 'tis true,
But for Your Dear-dear-Sake alone;
Variety I find in You,
Who have all Woman's Charms in one.
II.
Your Humour varies like Your Look;
Which You so dayly change to me,
That, if with Change I were not took,
I cou'd not constant to You be.
III.
Blame me not, for Inconstancy,
Which more my Faith does to thee prove,
Did I not love Variety;
Thee, fickle Dear! how shou'd I love?
IV.
To please Men more, You change your Dress,
Why should You likewise not your Mind?
Since you wou'd but please Lovers less,
If You, the same still, shou'd they find.
V.
I need not Change, since You do so;
Both your Looks, your Talk, and your Mind;
That all Varieties in You
I have, of Changing Woman-kind.
Variety I love, 'tis true,
But for Your Dear-dear-Sake alone;
Variety I find in You,
Who have all Woman's Charms in one.
II.
Your Humour varies like Your Look;
Which You so dayly change to me,
That, if with Change I were not took,
I cou'd not constant to You be.
III.
Blame me not, for Inconstancy,
Which more my Faith does to thee prove,
Did I not love Variety;
Thee, fickle Dear! how shou'd I love?
IV.
To please Men more, You change your Dress,
Why should You likewise not your Mind?
Since you wou'd but please Lovers less,
If You, the same still, shou'd they find.
V.
I need not Change, since You do so;
Both your Looks, your Talk, and your Mind;
That all Varieties in You
I have, of Changing Woman-kind.
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