ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT

by: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

      KNOW a thing that's most uncommon;
      (Envy, be silent and attend!)
      I know a reasonable woman,
      Handsome and witty, yet a friend.
       
      Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour;
      Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly;
      An equal mixture of good-humour
      And sensible soft melancholy.
       
      'Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?'
      Yes, she has one, I must aver:
      When all the world conspires to praise her,
      The woman's deaf, and does not hear.

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