Why like a tender girl dost thou complain!  
  That strives to reach the mother's breast in vain;  
  Mourns by her side, her knees embraces fast,  
  Hangs on her robes, and interrupts her haste;  
  Yet, when with fondness to her arms she's rais'd,  
  Still mourns and weeps, and will not be appeas'd!
"Patroclus's Request to Achilles for his Arms; Imitated from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Iliad of Homer", in Tonson's The Annual Miscellany for the Year 1694.











