Matthew Prior (Мэтью Прайор)

A Dutch Proverb

Fire, Water, Woman, are Man's Ruin;
Says wise Professor Vander Bruin.
By Flames a House I hir'd was lost
Last Year: and I must pay the Cost.
This Spring the Rains o'erflow'd my Ground:
And my best Flanders Mare was drown'd.
A Slave I am to Clara's Eyes:
The Gipsey knows her Pow'r, and flies.
Fire, Water, Woman, are My Ruin:
And great Thy Wisdom, Vander Bruin. 

1. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
2. If Wine and Music Have the Power
3. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
4. Cupid and Ganymede
5. Written in an Ovid

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