A _Lyon_ in _Love_.
A _Lyon_ in Love with a Country Lass, and desir’d her Father’s Consent to
have her in Marriage. The Answer he gave was Churlish enough. He’d never
Agree to’t he said, upon any Terms, to marry his Daughter to a Beast. The
_Lyon_ gave him a Sour Look upon’t, which brought the Bumkin, upon Second
Thoughts, to strike up a Bargain with him, upon these Conditions: that
his Teeth should be Drawn, and his Nails Par’d; for Those were Things, he
said, that the Foolish Girl was Terribly afraid of. The _Lyon_ sends for
a Surgeon immediately to do the Work; (as what will not Love make a Body
do?) And so soon as ever the Operation was Over, he goes and Challenges
the Father upon his Promise. The Countryman seeing the _Lyon_ Disarm’d,
Pluck’d up a Good Heart, and with a Swinging Cudgel so order’d the
Matter, that he brake off the Match.
The MORAL.
_An Extravagant Love, consults neither Life, Fortune, nor Reputation,
but Sacrifices All that can be Dear to a Man of Sense and Honour, to the
Transports of an Inconsiderate Passion._