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a Man in love

foreign: French l'homme qui ne se trouve point, il ne se trouvera jamais. ---/foreign

The Man who feels the clear disease Forgets himself, neglects to please; The crowd avoids, & seeks the groves And much he thinks when much he loves. Prest with alternate hope and fear, Sighs in her absence, sighs when she is near. The gay. the fond the fair the young) Those trifles pass unseen along) To him a pert insipid throng.) But most he shuns the vain coquette Contems her false affected wit. The mistrels sound, the flowing bowl Oppress & hurt the am'rous aoul. 'Tis solitude alone can please And give some intervals of ease. He feeds the soft distemper there And fondly courts the distant fair;