The Works of Henry Fielding/To The Same; Having Blamed Mr. Gay For His Severity On Her Sex.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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To The Same;
Having Blamed Mr. Gay For His Severity On Her Sex.
by Henry Fielding

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This poem refers to Fielding's contemporary, the poet and playwright John Gay.

548443To The Same;
Having Blamed Mr. Gay For His Severity On Her Sex.Henry Fielding

LET it not Celia's gentle heart perplex
That Gay severe hath satiriz'd her sex;
Had they, like her, a tenderness but known,
Back on himself each pointed dart had flown.
But blame thou last, in whose accomplish'd mind
The strongest satire on thy sex we find.