...sweet melody chiming, To the name of dear Molly Lepel. Bright Venus yet never saw bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepel. So powerful her charms, and so moving, They would warm an old monk in his cell, Should the Pope himself...

...sweet melody, chiming To the name of dear Molly Lepel ! Bright Venus yet never saw bedded, So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded, To the beautiful Molly Lepel ! So pow'rful her charms, and so moving, They would warm an old monk in his cell ; Should the Pope...

...sweet melody chiming, To the name of dear Molly Lepel. Bright Venus yet never saw bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepel. So powerful her charms, and so moving, They would warm an old monk in his cell, Should the Pope himself...

...handsome. So in a ballad celebrated in its day, we read : — " For Venus had never seen bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell."^ What then delayed the announcement of their union? It is hard to guess, but there is a clue....

...Such conditions would iave seemed hard enough in 1720 : For Venus had never seen bedded So handsome a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell,"— and they were then as fond as graceful ; >ut by 1730 there seems to have been no 1848.J...

...celebrated ballad of the day thus eulogizes the happy pair : " For Venus had never seen bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey, the handsome, was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell." Mr. Croker says : — " To her more solid merits as a daughter, a wife, and a mother, we have...

...yet never saw bedded, To Molly Hogg bid a farewel, But renew their sweet melody chyming, So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Moll; La—1. The ballad contains sixteen verses. F. 0. BIRKBECK TKKRT. These are the concluding lines...

...a ballad in honour of both bride and bridegroom : — " For Venus had never seen bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell." Pnlteney some years afterwards wrote of the " handsome Hervey " in a very different strain,...

...conditions would have seemed hard enough in 1720 : " For Venus had never seen bedded So handsome a bean and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell" — and they were then as fond as graceful ; but by 1730 there seems to have been no particular...

..." Molly Lepell," and the event was thus celebrated : — For Venus had never seen bedded So perfect a beau and a belle, As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepell. Lord Ilervey was not destitute of wit, though some of his lines have been absurdly overpraised....