{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_men_will_romance/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_men_will_romance","id":"wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_men_will_romance","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vanity_of_pride/The_men_will_romance","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Romance","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"THE MEN WILL ROMANCE.\n\nWhen I enter\u2019d my teens I threw play things aside,\n\nI perceiv\u2019d myself woman and fit for a bride,\n\nBy young men I was flatter\u2019d my pride to enhance,\n\nOh! the maids believe when the men they romance.\n\nHe swore that my eyes the bright diamonds excel,\n\nSuch a face and such tresses he never beheld,\n\nAnd to gaze on my neck it was rapture and trance,\n\nAh! the maids believe when the men do romance.\n\nYoung Polydore saw me one night at the ball,\n\nAnd vow\u2019d to my charms he a conquest must fall,\n\nOn his knees he intreated my hand for to dance,\n\nAh! the maids believe when the men do romance.\n\nHe conducted me home when the pastime was o\u2019er,\n\nAnd declar\u2019d he ne\u2019er saw so much beauty before,\n\nHow he ogl\u2019d and sigh\u2019d when he saw me advance,\n\nAh! the maids believe when the men do romance.\n\nThen day after day I his company had,\n\nTill at length he declar\u2019d all his flame to my dad,\n\nBut my father lov\u2019d money he would not advance,\n\nHe reply\u2019d to my lover, we men will romance.\n\nAltho\u2019 my papa would not give us one shilling,\n\nYet to wed me my Polydore vow\u2019d he was willing,\n\nSo we both went to church, at night we did dance,\n\nAnd believe me young women he did not romance.\n\nGlasgow, Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket. 1802","title":"Vanity of pride/The men will romance","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":240}