Thursday, October 18, 2012

Joy! You! Pain!


A MAIDEN’S IDEAL OF A HUSBAND


By Henry Carey 1687 – 1743

From "The Contrivances"

GENTEEL in personage,
Conduct, and equipage,
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free:
Brave, not romantic;
Learned, not pedantic;
Frolic, not frantic;
This must he be.

Honor maintaining,
Meanness disdaining,
Still entertaining,
Engaging and new.
Neat, but not finical;
Sage, but not cynical;
Never tyrannical,
But ever true.







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