Maxioms by William Cowper
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,
Is always read more
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,
Is always happy, reign whoever may,
And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
God made the country, and man made the town.
God made the country, and man made the town.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
