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How engaging, how endearing,
Is a lover's pain and care!
And what joy the nymph's appearing,
After abfence or despair!
Women wife increase defiring,
By contriving kind delays

And, advancing or retiring,

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All they mean is more to please.

THO

HO' Damon is haughty, and seems to despise
The fetters he lately has worn;

Yet he knows in his foul, that his Phillis's eyes,

Were the willing, cou'd conquer his fcorn. Then let not prefumption fo blind thee, fond Damon, To think that this humour fhall e'er bring my Alame

If he had been humble, obliging, and free,
Perhaps I had pity'd his pain ;

(on.

But, fince pride and inconstancy in him I fee,
He shall know he's but lengthen'd his chain :
For, now I perceive what the fop does endeavour,
My arts fhall detain him my captive for ever.

A L.L

ALL joy to mortals, joy and mirth,

Eternal Iös fing;

The gods of love descend to earth,
Their darts have lost the sting.
The youth shall now complain no more
Of Silvia's needless scorn;

But fhe fhall love, if he adore,
And melt when he fhall burn.

The nymph no longer shall be shy,
But leave the jilting road;
And Daphne now no more fhall fy
The wounded panting god :
But all shall be ferene and fair,
No fad complaints of love
Shall fill the gentle whispering air,
No eccheing fighs the grove.

Beneath the fhades young Strepbon lies,

Of all his wifh poffefs'd; Gazing on Silvia's charming eyes,,

Whofe foul is there confefs'd.

All foft and fweet the maid appears,

With looks that know no art;

And, tho' fhe yields with trembling fears,

She yields with all her heart.

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H! Chloris, cou'd I now but fit

As unconcern'd, as when

Your infant beauty cou'd beget

No happiness nor pain:
When I this dawning did admire,

And prais'd the coming day,
I little thought that rifing fire
Wou'd take my reft away.

Your charms in harmless childhood lay,
As metals in a mine;

Age from no face takes more away

Than youth conceal'd in thine:

But as your charms insensibly
To their perfection press'd,
So love as unperceiv'd did fly,
And center'd in my breast,

My paffion with your beauty grew,
While Cupid at my heart,
Still as his mother favour'd you,
Threw a new flaming dart;

Each gloried in their wanton part;
To make a lover, he

Employ'd the utmost of his art;
To make a beauty, she.

WHERE

WHERE

HERE Dryden first unclos'd his infant eyes,
As waiting mufes tun'd his early cries;

Where winding Nen divides the flowery way,
In those fair plains young Strephon chanc'd to ftray:
And wand'ring, penfive, thro' the moon-light fhade,
While beauty warm'd his tender breaft,

And Cloe all his foul poffeft,

He reach'd, as night advanc'd, a lonely glade.
There to deaf winds he told his pain;

No eccho answer'd him again:

In folemn filence all, but love, was laid.

That power, which wing'd the wounding dart
From Cloe's eye to Strephon's heart,

Love's genial goddess, heard his grief:
And thus, at length, confefs'd to fight,
In heavenly charms, divinely bright,
Have hopes, fhe faid, I bring relief.

In midnight gloom let spirits hover,
And ghosts, condemn'd to fad despair;
Go thou, and to the maid discover,
In fofteft fighs, thy gentle care.
Bid pleafing founds prepare to move her;
With chofen verfe the tale prolong:

Phabus will aid a faithful lover;
And Cloe will reward the forg.

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The Tears of AMYNTA for the Death of DAMO N.

Na bank, befide a willow,

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Heav'n her covering, earth her pillow,

Sad Amynta figh'd alone :

From the chearlefs dawn of morning,
Till the dews of night returning,
Singing, thus fhe made her moan:
Hope is banish'd,

Joys are vanish'd,
Damon, my belov'd, is gone!

Time, I dare thee to discover
Such a youth, and such a lover;
Oh fo true, fo kind was he!
Damon was the pride of nature,
Charming in his every feature,
Damon liv'd alone for me;
Melting kiffes,
Murm'ring bliffes;

Who fo liv'd and lov'd as we!

Never fhall we curfe the morning,

Never bless the night returning,
Sweet embraces to restore;
Never fhall we both lie dying,
Nature failing, love fupplying
VOL. II.

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