Faint--Fair, and act a Play. <br /> <br />In some few Hours we must repair, <br />To act, like Thespis, in the Fair: <br />And, as our Stage is of a Piece <br />With that transmitted down from Greece, <br />Some Pow'r celestial must unfold <br />Our Fable, too obscurely told: <br />And, since it helps the Poet's Art, <br />When Actors speak and look their Part; <br />Wonder not, fair One, that we sue, <br />The Goddess may be play'd by you.<br /><br />Mary Barber<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/written-at-tunbridge-wells-to-the-right-honourable-the-lady-barbara-north/
