| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Ladies, though to your conquering eyes’ | | By Sir George Etherege (1635?–1691) |
| | | LADIES, 1 though to your conquering eyes | |
| Love owes his chiefest victories, | |
| And borrows those bright arms from you | |
| With which he does the world subdue, | |
| Yet you yourselves are not above | 5 |
| The empire nor the griefs of love. | |
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| Then rack not lovers with disdain, | |
| Lest Love on you revenge their pain: | |
| You are not free because you’re fair: | |
| The Boy did not his Mother spare. | 10 |
| Beauty’s but an offensive dart: | |
| It is no armour for the heart. | |
| | | Note 1. From The Comical Revenge; or Love in a Tub, act. v, sc. 3. 1664. [back] | | |
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