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Inconftancy Excufed.

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Muft confefs I am untruc

TO GLORIANA's Eyes;

But he that's fmil'd upon by you,
Must all the World despise.

In Winter, Fires of little Worth

Excite our dull Defire;

But when the Sun breaks kindly forth,

Thofe fainter Flames expire.

Then

Then blame me not for flighting now

What I did once adore;

O, do but this one Change allow,

And I can change no more:

Fixt by your never-failing Charms,
Till I with Age decay,
Till languishing within your Arms,
I figh my Soul away.

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H conceal that charming Creature
From my wondring, wishing Eyes!

Every Motion, every Feature

Does fome ravish'd Heart furprize ;

But oh, I fighing, fighing, fee
The happy Swain! fhe ne'er can be

False to him, or kind to me.

Yet, if I could humbly show her,
Ah! how wretched I remain ;

Tis not, fure, a thing below her,

Still to pity fo much Pain;

The

The Gods fome Pleasure, Pleasure take,

Happy as themselves to make

Those who fuffer for their fake.

Since your Hand alone was giv'n
To a Wretch not worth your Care;
Like fome Angel fent from Heav'n,

Come and raise me from Defpair!

Your Heart I cannot, cannot mifs,
And I defire no other Bliss;

Let all the World befides be His.

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DESPAIR.

L'L hopeless of Relief,

Incapable of Rest,

In vain I ftrive to vent a Grief

That's not to be expreft.

This Rage within my Veins

No Reafon can remove;

Of all the Mind's most cruel Pains,

The sharpeft fure is Love.

Yet while I languish so,

And on thee vainly call;

Take heed, fair Cause of all my Woc,

What Fate may thee befall.

Ungrateful,

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