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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Indifferent LOVER, OR, The Roving Batchelor.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To a Plea&s;ant new Tune, Sung in the la&s;t new Comedy, called <HI>Amphytrion,</HI> Or, <HI>Fond Boy.</HI></OPENER>
<P><GAP DESC="music"> FOr <HI>Iris</HI> I &s;igh and hourly Dye, but not for a Lip nor a langui&s;hing Eye; She's fickle and fal&s;e <GAP DESC="music">and there we agree, Oh! the&s;e are the Vertues that captivate me: We neither believe what <GAP DESC="music">either can &s;ay, and neither believing, we neither betray.</P>
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<HEAD>(2)</HEAD>
<L>'Tis civil to &s;wear and &s;ay things of Cour&s;e,</L>
<L>We mean not the taking for better for wor&s;e,</L>
<L>When pre&s;ent we love, when ab&s;ent agree,</L>
<L>I think not of <HI>Iris</HI> nor <HI>Iris</HI> of me;</L>
<L>The Legend of Love, no Couple can find,</L>
<L>So ea&s;ie to part, and &s;o ea&s;ily joyn'd.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>(3)</HEAD>
<L>I like not that Lover who'll whimpering &s;tand,</L>
<L>And wait a whole day to ki&s;s <HI>Celias</HI> fair hand,</L>
<L>No Beauty i'th' Town, tho' ten times as fair,</L>
<L>Can ever, can ever with <HI>Celia</HI> Compare:</L>
<L>How happy am I, who hourly find,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e fair as his <HI>Celia,</HI> as <HI>his</HI> kind.</L>
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<HEAD>(4)</HEAD>
<L>I am &s;till in the Fa&s;hion, or Mode-a-la-<HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>I think not upon her, unle&s;s by a chance,</L>
<L><HI>Iris</HI> when pre&s;ent I fancy the be&s;t,</L>
<L>When ab&s;ent I prai&s;e her no more then the re&s;t:</L>
<L><HI>Iris</HI> and <HI>Phillis</HI> to me are all one;</L>
<L>So &s;oon I can love, and as &s;oon can have done.</L>
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<HEAD>(5)</HEAD>
<L>I can love for an hour, fair <HI>Celia</HI> and then,</L>
<L>I am Cloy'd of the Bli&s;s, and Love <HI>Iris</HI> agen,</L>
<L>Till tyered of Happine&s;s I do depart,</L>
<L>Go the next way and give <HI>Phillis</HI> my Heart:</L>
<L>Till <HI>Cleo</HI> appears, who&s;e delicate Eye,</L>
<L>For an hour or two makes me langui&s;hing lye.</L>
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<HEAD>(6)</HEAD>
<L>I loved all I &s;ee when ju&s;t in the fit,</L>
<L>Yet can in a Moment my Mi&s;tri&s;s forget,</L>
<L>Now Langui&s;h, now Love, now &s;igh and com|plain</L>
<L>Now love her, now hate her, and love her again.</L>
<L>I admire the Charms in <HI>Celias</HI> fair face,</L>
<L>Till <HI>Phillis</HI> appears to take up her place.</L>
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<HEAD>(7)</HEAD>
<L>But of all the Beauties were ever admir'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Company many fond Fops have de&s;ir'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e every Charm in their Faces &s;o takes,</L>
<L>That &s;everal <HI>Coxcombs</HI> have dy'd for their &s;akes;</L>
<L>I never &s;ee any who&s;e faces could Charm,</L>
<L>So much by their Smiles or Frowns for to harm.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>(8)</HEAD>
<L>If <HI>Iris</HI> Loves me, then I can Love her,</L>
<L>If &s;he loves me not, then I can prefer,</L>
<L>Another before her; Or her 'fore another,</L>
<L>For I can Love one as well as the other;</L>
<L>My pa&s;&s;ion to all alike I'll di&s;cover,</L>
<L>And always ramin an indifferent Lover.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Ch. Bates,</HI> at the <HI>White-Hart</HI> in <HI>We&s;t-Smith-Field.</HI></P>
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