296 THE POEMS OF POPE. But after many a hearty struggle past, Soon as he said, My mistress and my wife! Now Heaven on all my husbands gone bestow Pleasures above, for tortures felt below: That rest they wish'd for, grant them in the grave, And bless those souls my conduct help'd to save! IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS. CHAUCER. WOMEN ben full of ragerie, Yet swinken nat sans secresie. From schoole-boy's tale of fayre Irelond; Ducke in his trowses hath he hent, "But ho! our nephew," crieth one; Forth thrust a white neck and red crest. medailes: terke nought spake : Is cringer fuese trieth quaake.” I moter cth the daughter, •Be the are ng mas engen a'ter? Bettes e mais and chalke, Then rust a man whose yerde can talke." SPENSER. THE ALLEY. Iy every town where Thamis rolls his tyde, squail: How can ye, mothers, vex your children so? Some play, some eat, some cack against the wall, And as they crouchen low, for bread and butter call. And on the broken pavement, here and there, And hens, and dogs, and hogs, are feeding by; |