THE INCONSISTENT

TO A LADY, UPON HER REFUSAL OF A PRESENT OF MELONS, AND HER REJECTION OF THE

ADDRESSES OF AN ADMIRER.

Translated into English Verse by J. D. Carlyle, BD

When I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn,

   "They ought to be heavy, and wrinkled, and yellow:"

 When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn,

   You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow!