Mary Wortley Montagu (Мэри Уортли Монтегю)

Answered, for Lord William Hamilton

Good Madam, when ladies are willing,
A man must needs look like a fool;
For me, I would not give a shilling
For one who would love out of rule.
You should leave us to guess by your blushing,
And not speak the matter so plain;
'Tis ours to write and be pushing,
'Tis yours to affect a disdain.
That you're in a terrible taking,
By all these sweet oglings I see;
But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
Indeed is too mellow for me.

1. To a Friend on His Travels
2. An Epistle from Pope to Lord Bolingbroke
3. Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday from the Country
4. Epigram, 1734
5. John Duke of Marlborough

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