THE INCONSISTENT[35]

When I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn,

They ought to be heavy and wrinkled and yellow;

When I offer'd myself, whom those graces adorn,

You flouted, and call'd me an ugly old fellow.

[35] Written to a lady upon her refusal of a present of melons, and her

rejection of the addresses of an admirer.

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