Youth doth a thousand pleasures,bring,
Which from decrepit age will fly ;
The flowers that flourish in the fpring,
In winter's cold embraces die.

IV.

Now Love, that everlasting boy, invites
To revel while you may, in foft delights:
Now the kind nymph yields all her charms,
Nor yields in vain to youthful arms.

Slowly fhe promises at night to meet,

But eagerly prevents the hour with swifter feet,
To gloomy groves and fhades obfcure she flies,
There veils the bright confeffion of her eyes.
Unwillingly the stays,

Would more unwillingly depart,
And in foft fighs conveys

The whispers of her heart.

Still fhe invites and ftill denies,

And vows the 'll leave you if you 're rude;
Then from her ravifher the flies,

But flies to be purfu'd :

If from his fight she does herfelf convey,
With a feign'd laugh she will herself betray,
And cunningly instruct him in the way,

SONG.

I look'd, and I figh'd, and I wish'd I could speak,

And very

fain would have been at her;

But when I ftrove moft my great paffion to break,
Still then I faid leaft of the matter.

II.

I fwore to myself, and refolv'd I would try
Some way my poor heart to recover;
But that was all vain, for I fooner could die,
Than live with forbearing to love her.

III.

Dear Calia, be kind then; and fince your own eyes
By looks can command adoration.

Give mine leave to talk too, and do not defpife
Those oglings that tell you my paffion.

IV.

We'll look, and we 'll love, and though neither fhould fpeak,

The pleasure we 'll ftill be pursuing;

And fo, without words, I don't doubt we may make A very good end of this wooing.

THE RECONCILIATION.

FA

RECITATIV E.

AIR Cælia love pretended,
And nam'd the myrtle bower,
Where 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 paffion.
O D E.

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.

RECITATIVE.

But Cælia now, repenting
Her breach of affignation,
Arriv'd with eyes confenting,
And fparkling inclination.
Like Citherea fmiling,

She blush'd, and laid his paffion;
The fhepherd ceas'd reviling,

And fung this recantation:

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PALINODE.

How engaging, how endearing,

Is a Lover's pain and care!
And what joy the nymph's appearing,
After abfence or defpair!

Women wife increase defiring,

By contriving kind delays;

And advancing, or retiring,

All they mean is more to please.

A B SE NC E.

ALAS! what pains, what racking thoughts he proves,

Who lives remov'd from her he deareft loves!

In cruel abfence doom'd paft joys to mourn,
And think on hours that will no more return!
Oh let me ne'er the pangs of abfence try,
Save me from abfence, Love, or let me die.

SONG IN DIALOGUE,

FOR TWO WOMEN.

I.

I Love, and am belov'd again,

Strephon no more shall sigh in vain ; I've try'd his faith, and found him truc, And all my coyness bid adieu.

2.

I love, and am belov'd again,

Yet ftill my Thyrfis fhall complain;

I'm fure he 's mine, while I refuse him,
But when I yield, I fear to lofe him.

1. Men will grow faint with tedious fasting: 2. And both will tire with often tafting, When they find the blifs not lafting.

1. Love is compleat in kind poffeffing. 2. Ah no! ah no! that ends the bleffing.

CHORUS OF BOтн.

Then let us beware how far we consent,
Too foon when we yield, too late we repent;
'Tis ignorance makes men admire :

And granting defire

We feed not the fire,

But make it more quickly expire.

SONG.