Thus the famous Song in 'Camilla', 'Barbara si t' intendo, &c.' Barbarous Woman, yes, I know your Meaning, which expresses the Resentments of an angry Lover, was translated into that English lamentation: 'Frail are a Lovers Hopes, &c.'

True he employed a secret code, But who would guess at guile in that? Unless he used the cryptic mode He couldn't be a diplomat; He wished (we thought) to be discreet, Telling his friends how frail and fair is The exotic feminine you meet In bounteous Buenos Aires.

Now so frail is man's temper, that though he was doing more than any ever did to save another's life, and was all I had to trust to in the world; yet because he forgot my pain and bade me quicken, my choler rose, and I nearly gave him back an angry word, but thought better of it and kept it in.

.....I saw the living pile ascend, The mausoleum of its architects, Still dying upwards as their labors closed; Slime the material, but the slime was turned To adamant by their petrific touch: Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable.

I seemed to stand with ice on every side of me, and so frail was my trembling wooden bridge that it seemed an easy thing for the ice, that appeared to press with tremendous weight against its banks, to grind the supports to fragments.

so frail is the tenure by which these women's favourites commonly hold their envied pre-eminence.

My lord was like a flower upon the brows Of lusty May; ah life as frail as flower!

Alike the laws of life take place Through every branch of human race, 60 The monarch of long regal line Was raised from dust as frail as mine.