You wished for a love-letter, Doctor-but then,
I know you to be most conceited of men;
You’ll think I’m in earnest, I vow now I ain’t,
For I would not deign to love even a saint.
You must never believe what the fair ladies say:
Take their nay for a yes, and their yes for a nay.
Like doctors, the darlings are very deceiving,
And most thmy youth, in vain I seek.
(Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert)
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