RARE Composition of a Poet-Knight, Most chivalrous amongst chivalric men, Distinguish'd for a polish'd lance and pen In tuneful contest, and the tourney-fight; Lustrous in scholarship, in honour bright, Accomplish'd in all graces current then, Humane as any in historic ken, Brave, handsome, noble, affable, polite, Most courteous to that race become of late So fiercely scornful of all kind advance, Rude, bitter, coarse, implacable in hate To Albion, plotting ever her mischance, -- Alas! fair Verse, how false and out of date Thy phrase "@3sweet enemy@1" applied to France! |