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The Way of the World
act iii   Scene XII.
William Congreve
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       [To them] MINCING.
       MINCING
       The gentlemen stay but to comb, madam, and will wait on you.
       MILLAMANT
       Desire Mrs.--that is in the next room, to sing the song I would have learnt yesterday. You shall hear it, madam. Not that there's any great matter in it--but 'tis agreeable to my humour.
       SONG.
       Set by Mr. John Eccles.
       I
       Love's but the frailty of the mind
       When 'tis not with ambition joined;
       A sickly flame, which if not fed expires,
       And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
       II
       'Tis not to wound a wanton boy
       Or am'rous youth, that gives the joy;
       But 'tis the glory to have pierced a swain
       For whom inferior beauties sighed in vain.
       III
       Then I alone the conquest prize,
       When I insult a rival's eyes;
       If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
       That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.