I know the thing that's most uncommon; <br /> (Envy be silent and attend!) <br />I know a Reasonable Woman, <br /> Handsome and witty, yet a Friend. <br /> <br />Not warp'd by Passion, aw'd by Rumour, <br /> Not grave thro' Pride, or gay thro' Folly, <br />An equal Mixture of good Humour, <br /> And sensible soft Melancholy. <br /> <br />`Has she no Faults then (Envy says) Sir?' <br /> Yes she has one, I must aver: <br />When all the World comspires to praise her, <br /> The Woman's deaf, and does not hear.<br /><br />Alexander Pope<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-a-certain-lady-at-court/
