| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Plaything Changed | | Anonymous |
| | | KITTY’S 1 charming voice and face, | |
| Syren-like, first caught my fancy; | |
| Wit and humour next take place, | |
| And now I doat on sprightly Nancy. | |
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| Kitty tunes her pipe in vain, | 5 |
| With airs most languishing and dying; | |
| Calls me false ungrateful swain, | |
| And tries in vain to shoot me flying. | |
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| Nancy with resistless art, | |
| Always humorous, gay and witty, | 10 |
| Has talk’d herself into my heart, | |
| And quite excluded tuneful Kitty. | |
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| Ah, Kitty! Love a wanton boy, | |
| Now pleased with song, and now with prattle, | |
| Still longing for the nearest toy, | 15 |
| Has chang’d his whistle for a rattle. | |
| | | Note 1. From Dodsley’s A Collection of Poems, vol. vi, 326, 1782. [back] | | |
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