The Love-chase by James Sheridan Knowles
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Sir Wil. Do you mark?
Much love is there! True. Indeed, a heap, or none! I'd wager on the heap! Sir Wil. Ay!--Do you think These discords, as in the musicians' art, Are subtle servitors to harmony? That all this war's for peace? This wrangling but A masquerade where love his roguish face Conceals beneath an ugly visor!--Well? True. Your guess and my conceit are not a mile Apart. Unlike to other common flowers, The flower of love shews various in the bud; 'Twill look a thistle, and 'twill blow a rose! And with your leave I'll put it to the test; Affect myself, for thy fair daughter, love - Make him my confidant--dilate to him Upon the graces of her heart and mind, Feature and form--that well may comment bear - Till--like the practised connoisseur, who finds A gem of heart out in a household picture The unskilled owner held so cheap he grudged Renewal of the chipped and tarnished frame, But values now as priceless--I arouse him Into a quick sense of the worth of that Whose merit hitherto, from lack of skill, Or dulling habit of acquaintanceship, |
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