APOLOGY

Olympus’ Court no fairer Visage housed

Than that of Helen. Goddesses were roused

To ENVY: which though petty Vice on Earth

When spent on High where all’s of greater Worth

Loosed Havock down below. Fleets sailed, Gods vied,

For Helen cities fell and heroes died.

ELIZA’s Fame on Rumour’s wing hath come

To Albion’s shores. French flatterers, struck dumb,

Have kept her beauty hid ’til now, it seems;

But as a light beneath a Bushel gleams

Thro’ any Chink, ELIZA’s Charms are out,

And putting Goddesses to rout.

A-tremble, Men gaze up, and shall be glad

Not to be Players in her Iliad.

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