COME, fly to these arms, nor let beauties so bloomy To one frigid owner be tied; Your prudes may revile, and your old ones look gloomy, But, dearest! we've Law on our side. Oh! think the delight of two lovers congenial, Whom no dull decorums divide; Their error how sweet, and their raptures how @3venial@1, When once they've got Law on their side! 'T is a thing that in every king's reign has been done, too; Then why should it now be decried? If the father has done it, why shouldn't the son, too? For so argues Law on our side! And, e'en should our sweet violation of duty By cold-blooded jurors be tried, They can @3but@1 bring it in "a misfortune," my beauty, As long as we've Law on our side. THE LADY'S ANSWER. Hold, hold, my good sir! go a little more slowly, For, grant me so faithless a bride, Such sinners as we are a little too @3lowly@1, To hope to have Law on our side. Had you been a great prince, to whose star shining o'er 'em The people should look for their guide, Then your Highness (and welcome!) might kick down de corum -- You'd always have Law on your side. Were you e'en an old Marquis, in mischief grown hoary, Whose heart, though it long ago died To the @3pleasures@1 of vice, is alive to its @3glory@1 -- You still would have Law on your side! But for @3you@1, sir, crim. con. is a path full of troubles; By @3my@1 advice therefore abide, And leave the pursuit to those princes and nobles Who have @3such@1 a Law on their side! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE NIGHT-PIECE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK BLACK AND BLUE EYES by THOMAS MOORE NOT TO BE MINISTERED TO by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK CHARACTERS: SARAH TAYLOR RIGBY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE HAPPY FOOL by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AFTERWARDS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN HASTINGS' SONNETS: 3 by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 4 by JOHN BYROM |