The RESOLUTION.

The RESOLUTION.

The Favours of Fortune I once hop'd to gain, And often invok'd her, but ever in vain. She despis'd my Addresses, which gave me such Grief, I flew to the Muses, in Hopes of Relief. Ah Wretch that I was! I might very well know, 'Twas the Method to make her for ever my Foe. They laugh'd at the Goddess, and bid me despise her; But Time and Experience have made me grow wiser. This unhappy Mistake I resolve to repair. O Fortune! thy Votaries must persevere.