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And after that, she set herself to gain Him, the most famous man of all those times, Merlin, who knew the range of all their arts, Had built the King his havens, ships, and halls, Was also Bard, and knew the starry heavens; The people call'd him Wizard; whom at first She play'd about with slight and sprightly talk, And vivid smiles, and faintly-venom'd points Of slander, glancing here and grazing there; And yielding to his kindlier moods, the Seer Would watch her at her petulance, and play, Ev'n when they seem'd unloveable, and laugh As those that watch a kitten; thus he grew Tolerant of what he half disdain'd, and she, Perceiving that she was but half disdain'd, Began to break her sports with graver fits, Turn red or pale, would often when they met Sigh fully, or all-silent gaze upon him With such a fixt devotion, that the old man, Tho' doubtful, felt the flattery, and at times Would flatter his own wish in age for love, And half believe her true: for thus at times He waver'd; but that other clung to him, Fixt in her will, and so the seasons went."
"But days, like this, with doubting curst, I will not long endure Am I disdain'd I know the worst, And likewise know my cure. "If, false, her vow she dare renounce, That instant ends my pain; For, oh! the heart must break at once, That cannot hate again." It is impossible to believe that such verses as these had no deeper inspiration than the imaginary loves of an opera.
Cardinal Richelieu, that great and wise Statesman, said, That there was no surer Testimony to be given of the flourishing Greatness of a State, than publick Pleasures and Divertisements for they are, says he the Schools of Vertue, where Vice is always either punish't, or disdain'd. They are secret Instructions to the People, in things that 'tis impossible to insinuate into them any other Way.
A long line of chieftains! from father to son, They lived for their country their purpose was one In heart they were fearless in hand they were clean; From the hero of yore, who, in Gorton's grim caves, Kept watch with the band who disdain'd to be slaves, Down to him, with the Hopetoun and Lynedoch that vied, Who should shine like a twin star by Wellington's side, That the thistle of Scotland might ever be green!
Hast thou no feeling for my pain, Refused, disdain'd, despised, forsaken?" The son indicates these amiable foibles in a filial tone and in apologetic terms, but the "liberal shepherds" sometimes spoke more frankly. An old squire remarked to a friend in reference to this subject, "D mme, sir! the very first time Crabbe dined at my house he made love to my sister!"
"On the first day of 'The Provok'd Husband," says the Poet Laureate, "ten years after the 'Non-juror' had appear'd, a powerful party, not having the fear of publick offence or private injury before their eyes, appeared most impetuously concerned for the demolition of it; in which they so far succeeded that for some time I gave it up for lost; and to follow their blows, in the publick papers of the next day it was attack'd and triumph'd over as a dead and damn'd piece: a swinging criticism was made upon it in general invective terms, for they disdain'd to trouble the world with particulars; their sentence, it seems, was proof enough of its deserving the fate it had met with.
Have you not, reader dear, among your intimate friends, some one, temporarily absent, whose letters to you, avoiding all the big topics and disquisitions, give only minor, gossipy sights and scenes just as they come subjects disdain'd by solid writers, but interesting to you because they were such as happen to everybody, and were the moving entourage to your friend to his or her steps, eyes, mentality?
In misery's darkest cavern known, His ready help was ever nigh; Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retired to die. No summons mock'd by dull delay, No petty gains disdain'd by pride; The modest wants of every day, The toil of every day supplied.
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