Poem by Henry Carey

A Maiden's Ideal Husband

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.

1. The Distress'd Father or, the Author's Tears over his Dear Daughter Rachel
2. The Distracted Lover
3. An Honest Yorkshireman
4. Ode to Eloquence
5. The Ballad of Sally in Our Alley

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