Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "The Lover: A Ballad"
• Six Town Eclogues (1747)
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But when the long hours of Public are past And we meet with Champaign and a Chicken at last, May every fond Pleasure that hour endear, Be banish’d afar both Discretion and Fear, Forgetting or scorning the Airs of the Croud He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud, Till lost in the Joy, we confess that we live And he may be rude, and yet I may forgive.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Poultry

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "But when the long hours of Public are past And we meet with Champaign and a Chicken at last, May every fond Pleasure that hour endear, Be banish’d afar both Discretion and Fear, Forgetting or scorning the Airs of the Croud He may cease to be formal, and I to be proud, Till lost in the Joy, we confess that we live And he may be rude, and yet I may forgive." in the context of "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "The Lover: A Ballad"
• Six Town Eclogues (1747)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

About Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat and writer, chiefly remembered today for her letters.