Let formal lovers still pursue

Let formal lovers still pursue,

I envy not their care,

A tedious siege perhaps may do

At last to gain the fair,

Such whining methods I disdain

A mistress to oblige,

Where a fair summons will not gain,

The town's not worth a siege.

The Eastern monarch's victories

Had not gone on so far,

Had he engag'd his enemies

By formal steps of war.

To general beauty I lay claim,

From each fair eye 'tis hurl'd,

Where'er I come, like him I'll gain

And love o'er all the world.