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TO EMMA, by                    
First Line: Why, pretty rogue! Do you protest
Last Line: Your smile would bribe both judge and jury.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clay, Mrs. William


Why, pretty rogue! do you protest
The trick of stealing you detest?
'T is what you are doing every day,
Either in earnest or in play.
Cupid and you, 't is said, are cousins,
(Au fait in stealing hearts by dozens,)
Who make no more of shooting sparks,
Than schoolboys do of wounding larks;
Nay, what is worse, 't is my belief,
Though known to be an arrant thief,
Such powers of witchcraft are your own,
That Justice slumbers on her throne;
And should you be arraign'd in court
For practising this cruel sport,
In spite of all the plaintiff's fury
Your smile would bribe both judge and jury.





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