2 Was it for this your Fate did fhelter find Does this deferve to be rewarded fo? Nor has my Love made any Coxcomb vain. What Hope had you to gain a Queen like me? Am I thought fit to be a fecond Prey? Had I been won, I had deferv'd your Blame, Yet the base Theft to him no Fruit did bear; You on fuch Terms would ne'er have let me go; Did he repent, that PARIS might succeed? I'll not complain, for who's difpleas'd with Love, Or doubt the blooming Beauties of my Face, And ours, alas! too willing to believe. Yet others yield; and Love o'ercomes the bestBut why fhould I not fhine above the rest? Fair LEDA's Story feems at first to be A fit Example ready found for me; Tho' you to Heroes, and to Kings fucceed, To one that springs herself from mighty Jove. You are the fifth from Jove, but I the first. But I have Reason to think ours no lefs. Your Letter fill'd with Promises of all That Men can good, and Women pleasant call, |