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Thus here

you

fee a shared heart,

But I, mean while, the fool:
Each in it has an equal part,
But neither yet the whole.

Nor will it, if I right forecast,
To either wholly yield:
I find the time approaches faft,
When both muft quit the field.

XVI. Set by Mr. DE FESCH.

FA

AREWEL, Amynta, we must part; ·
The charm has loft its power,

Which held fo faft my captiv'd heart

Until this fatal hour.

Hadft thou not thus my love abus'd,

And us'd me ne'er fo ill,

Thy cruelty I had excus'd,

And I had lov'd thee ftill.

But know, my foul disdain'd thy fway,
And fcorns thy charms and thee,
To which each fluttering coxcomb may
As welcome be as me."

Think in what perfect bliss you reign'd,
How lov'd before thy fall;

And now, alas! how much difdain'd

By me,

and scorn'd by all.

Yet

Yet thinking of each happy hour,
Which I with thee have spent,
So robs my rage of all its power,
That I almoft relent.

But pride will never let me bow,

No more thy charms can move : Yet thou art worth my pity now, Because thou hadst my love.

XVII. Set by Mr. SMITH.

ACCEPT, my love, as true a heart.

As ever lover gave:

'Tis free (it vows) from any art,

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Then take it kindly, as 'twas meant,

And let the giver live :

Who, with it, would the world have fent,

Had it been his to give.

And, that Dorinda may not fear

I e'er will prove untrue,

My vows fhall, ending with the

With it begin anew.

year,

XVIII. Ser

XVIII. Set by Mr. DE FESCH.

ANNY blufhes when I woo her,

NA

And, with kindly-chiding eyes,

Faintly fays, I fhall undo her,

Faintly, O forbear! fhe cries.

But her breasts while I am preffing,
While to her's my lips I join,
Warm'd the feems to taste the blessing,
And her kiffes answer mine.

Undebauch'd by rules of honour,
Innocence with nature charms;

One bids, gently push me from her,
T'other, take me in her arms.

XIX, Set by Mr. SMITH.

SINCE we your husband daily fee

So jealous out of season,

Phillis, let you and I agree
To make him fo with reafon.

night

I'm vext to think, that every
A fot, within thy arms,
Tafting the most divine delight,

Should fully all your charms.

While fretting I must lie alone,
Curfing the powers divine,
That undefervedly have thrown
A pearl unto a fwine.

Then, Phillis, heal my wounded heart,
My burning paffion cool; -
Let me at leaft in thee have part
With thy infipid fool.

XX. Set by C. R.

PHILLIS, give this humour over,

We too long have time abus'd ;

I fhall turn an errant rover,

If the favour's ftill refus'd.

Faith! 'tis nonfenfe out of measure,
Without ending thus to fee
Women forc'd to taste a pleasure
Which they love as well as we.

Let not pride and folly share you,
We were made but to enjoy ;
Ne'er will age or cenfure fpare you,
E'er the more for being coy,

Never fancy Time's before you,
Youth, believe me, will away
Then, alas! who will adore you,
Or to wrinkles tribute pay?

All

All the fwains on you attending

Show how much your charms deferve;
`But, mifer-like, for fear of spending,
You amidst your plenty starve.
While a thousand freer laffes,

Who their youth and charms employ,
Though your beauty their's furpaffes,
Live in far more perfect joy.

XXI.

HASTE, my Nannette, my lovely maid!

Hafte to the bower thy fwain has made;

For thee alone I made the bower,

And ftrew'd the couch with many a flower.
None but my sheep fhall near us come:
Venus be prais'd! my fheep are dumb.
Great God of Love! take thou my crook,
To keep the wolf from Nannette's flock.
Guard thou the sheep, to her so dear;
My own, alas are lefs my care.
But, of the wolf if thou 'rt afraid,
Come not to us to call for aid;

For with her fwain my love shall stay,
Though the wolf ftroll, and the sheep stray.

XXII. Set by Mr. DE FESCH.

INCE by ill fate I'm forc'd away,

SINCE

And fnatch'd fo foon from those dear arms;

Against my will I must obey,

And leave thofe fweet endearing charms.

Yet

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