MADAM,
THE inclosed little poem was written by the celebrated Earl of Dorset. It was never published, and may possibly be acceptable to some of your readers: I am, madam,
Your most humble servant, J F.
Lord DORSET to his LADY.
Not, Chloe, that I truer am,
Or juster than the rest;
For I could change each hour like them
Were it my interest.
But I am tied to very thee
By ev’ry thought I have,
And would you now my heart set free,
I’d be again your slave.
All that in woman is ador’d,
Tn thy dear self I find;
For the whole sex can but afford
The handsome and the kind.
Why should I then seek farther store,
And still make love anew;
Since change itself can give no more,
‘Tis easy to be true.