Gives Expectation such an ample Field, As would move Goddeffes themselves to yield. Your self shall be the dear, the only Cause; my Honour I'll to Death maintain, Or follow you without mean Thoughts of Gain. We like the Gift, when we the Giver prize: But 'tis your Love moves me, which made you take A thousand things that Love has made you do : In which (wild Man) your wanton Thoughts would fhine. Sometimes you'd figh, fometimes diforder'd ftand, And with unusual Ardour prefs my Hand; Nor would you let the least Occafion pass, Which oft I fear'd I did not mind alone, And blushing fate for things which you have done : Oft have I read within this pleasant Grove, I could not but be fenfible of this. For oh! your Face has fuch peculiar Charms, Oh! Oh! had you then upon our Coasts been brought, More to my Wish I cou'd have liv'd with you, And yet my prefent Lot can undergo. Ceafe to follicit a weak Woman's Will, And urge not her you love, to fo much III: And make not my unspotted Fame your Prey. One offer'd Valour, t'other Crowns, but fhe To think fuch Nymphs wou'd fhew you fuch a Sight. Yet granting this, the other part is feign'd; A Bribe so mean, your Sentence had not gain'd. With partial Eyes I should my felf regard, To think that VENUS made me her Reward: I humbly am content with human Praise; The Men, who flatter highest, please us beft: UNO and PALLAS you contemn'd for me. Ju Am I your Empire then, and your Renown? What Heart of Rock but must by this be won? yet bear witness, O you Pow'rs above, How rude I am in all the Arts of Love! My Hand is yet untaught to write to Men; This is th' Effay of my unpractis'd Pen: Happy thofe Nymphs, whom Ufe has perfect made; I think all Crime, and tremble at a Shade. Ev'n while I write, my fearful conscious Eyes Love fecretly the Abfence of my Lord More Freedom gives, but does not all afford. To go or not, when unrefolv'd he stood, I bid him make what fwift return he cou'd: And only answer'd, You fhall be obey'd. Propitious Winds have born him far from hence, VOL. I. H Abfent |