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The nymph, obferving, fnatch'd it thence;
But, blushing at the fight,
Confefs'd it had explain'd her fenfe,
And brought her love to light.

The fwain, perceiving her chang'd lock,
With fudden rapture starts;
The card with fweet compulfion took,
And found it King of Hearts.

The King of Hearts! O fortune bleft,
Were I but such, he cry'd:
Tou reign already in my breaft,
She lovingly reply'd.

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MOOTH was the water, calm the air,
The evening fun deprest;

Lawyers dismiss'd the noisy bar,

The labourer at rest;

When Strephon, with his charming fair,
Crofs'd the proud river Thames ;
And to a garden did repair,

To quench their mutual flames.
The crafty waiter foon espy'd

Youth sparkling in her eyes:

He brought. no ham, nor neat tongues dry'd,
But cream and strawberries,
The amorous Strepbon ask'd the maid,
What's whiter than this cream?

She blush'd, and cou'd not tell, fhe faid
Thy teeth, my pretty lamb.
What's redder than these berries are?
I know not, the reply'd:

Those lips, which I'll no longer spare,

The burning fhepherd cry'd.

And ftrait began to hug her:

This kifs, my dear,

Is fweeter far

Than ftrawberries, cream, and fugar,

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AFTER

FTER the pangs of fierce defire,

The doubts and hopes that wait on love,
And feed, by turns, the raging fire;.
How charming must fruition prove!

When the triumphant lover feels

None of those pains, which once he bore; Or when, reflecting on his ills,

He makes his prefent pleasure more.

To mariners, who long have lain

On a tempestuous ocean toft,

The ftorms, that threaten'd on the main,
Serve only to indear the coaft.

INCE all that's fair in womankind,

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You boast you can discover,

Search, with a freedom unconfin'd,

Their ftock of charms all over.

And when the mighty pains you've took,
And faid whate'er you can fay,
You'll own; the faireft, in her fmock,
Was fairer in your fancy.

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WHILE

HILE Phillis is drinking, love and wine in alWith forces united, bid refiftance defiance; By the touch of her lips the wine fparkles higher, And her eyes, by her drinking, redouble their fire.

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Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their co As flowers by fprinkling revive with fresh odour; His dart dipt in wine, Love wounds beyond curing, And the liquor, like oil, makes the flame more en

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By cordials of wine love is kept from expiring, And our mirth is enliven'd by love and defiring; Relieving each other, the pleasure is lasting, And we never are cloy'd, yet are ever a tasting.

Then, Phillis, begin; let our raptures abound, And a kifs and a glafs be ftill going round: Our joys are immortal while thus we remove, From love to the bottle, from the bottle to love.

The

The Reconciliation,

FAIR Celia love pretended,

And nam'd the myrtle bower,
When Damon long attended,
Beyond the promis'd hour.
At length, impatient growing.
Of anxious expectation,
His heart with rage o'erflowing,
He vented thus his passion:

To all the fex deceitful
A long and laft adieu;
Since women prove ungrateful
As oft as men prove true.
The pains they cause are many,
And long and hard to bear ;
The joys they give (if any)
Few, fhort, and unfincere..

But Celia, now repenting
Her breach of affignation,
Arriv'd, with eyes confenting
And sparkling inclination.
Like Citberea fmiling,

She blush'd, and laid his paffion;

The shepherd ceas'd reviling,
And fung this recantation.

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