THE SECOND PART. WHEN I confider well of this, But that doth feldome come to paffe, Therefore let him that has a good laffe, Defire to keep her fill: Nay, though fhe hath some small defect, To chide when he doth fret her, Yet let him not her loue neglect, For feldome comes the better. P Some thinke that were their old wiues dead, Such are there fickle mindes, They fhould get richer in their fleade, There's many lads and laffes That in good feruice light, young, And yet they thinke that they haue wrong To ferue their time out quite: They loue to shift from place to place, Toth' little from the greater, Till at laft they fay, in woefull cafe, Change of pasture makes fat calues, A roling stone ne're gathers moffe: So hee that is a flitter From house to house, shall find with loffe, That feldome comes the better. Likewife fome men and women both, They take fome farre vnfitter, And he that hath a perfect friend, Therefore let all, both men and wiues, Thinke on this prouerbe all their liues, For feldome comes the better. P 2 AURA AND ALEXIS. FA AR diftant from the bufy train The faireft nymph on all the plain, On Aura blooming health beftows The lilies, in her bofom plac'd, And fnow-drops, by that bofom grac'd, Alexis, oft in foft-tun'd lays, His Aura's beauties fings; The neighb'ring foreft with her praise At noon, befide the gurgling ftream, Or liftens to his love-fick theme, Thus bleft, and blessing each, they dwelt, With virtuous paffions burn'd; And, with an heart-felt rapture, felt That virtuous flame return'd. But ah! how fleeting are our joys, Near Aura's cot a mansion flood, Alonzo, of a noble race, A youth adorn'd with every grace As paffing by one day by chance, He view'd her lips, of rubies made, Whofe ringlets caft a pleasing shade, |