To find this counter-charm, this marriage rite,

Has put their pleasant fallacies to flight! 4 un

But tell me, Henry, should we truly strive, S

May we not bid the happy dream revive?. D HENRV.

Alas! they say when weakness or when vice Un

Expels a foolish pair from Paradise, Do

The guardian power to prayer has no regard,. Un

The knowledge once obtain'’d, the gate is barr'd; Bl

Or could we enter we shauld still repine,

Unless we could the knowledge too resign.

Yet let us calmly view our present fate, 3

And make a humbler Eden of our state;

With this advantage, that what now we gain,

Experience gives, and prudence will retain.

EMMA.

Ah! much I doubt— when you in fury broke

That lovely vase by one impassion'd stroke,