Tale III.

Variant of title:

THE RAKE AND COQUETTE.

THE RAKE AND COQUETTE.

THE RAKE AND COQUETTE.

variant ofll. 149–50:

“Have you not heard—for though I do not meanTo start an ill opinion of your Queen—

“Have you not heard—for though I do not meanTo start an ill opinion of your Queen—

“Have you not heard—for though I do not meanTo start an ill opinion of your Queen—

“Have you not heard—for though I do not mean

To start an ill opinion of your Queen—

variant ofll. 220–4:

But these pass off and oh! what tempests shakeThe moral view, what dire change they make!Temper not hidden, vice no more supprest—What stores of Discord swell in either breast.

But these pass off and oh! what tempests shakeThe moral view, what dire change they make!Temper not hidden, vice no more supprest—What stores of Discord swell in either breast.

But these pass off and oh! what tempests shakeThe moral view, what dire change they make!Temper not hidden, vice no more supprest—What stores of Discord swell in either breast.

But these pass off and oh! what tempests shake

The moral view, what dire change they make!

Temper not hidden, vice no more supprest—

What stores of Discord swell in either breast.

the Tale concludes:

The Authors both, both Victims [of] Deceit,Each feels the Craft that Each was doom’d to meet—Time past in Folly or in Mischief spent,Time present to regret and Suffering lent;While feeble Hopes in either Bosom reign,}That Death in time to come would snap their Chain}And free from Thraldom one, and one release from Pain.}

The Authors both, both Victims [of] Deceit,Each feels the Craft that Each was doom’d to meet—Time past in Folly or in Mischief spent,Time present to regret and Suffering lent;While feeble Hopes in either Bosom reign,}That Death in time to come would snap their Chain}And free from Thraldom one, and one release from Pain.}

The Authors both, both Victims [of] Deceit,Each feels the Craft that Each was doom’d to meet—Time past in Folly or in Mischief spent,Time present to regret and Suffering lent;While feeble Hopes in either Bosom reign,}That Death in time to come would snap their Chain}And free from Thraldom one, and one release from Pain.}

The Authors both, both Victims [of] Deceit,

Each feels the Craft that Each was doom’d to meet—

Time past in Folly or in Mischief spent,

Time present to regret and Suffering lent;

While feeble Hopes in either Bosom reign,}

That Death in time to come would snap their Chain}

And free from Thraldom one, and one release from Pain.}


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