CON. 'Tis expectation makes a bleffing dear; Heav'n were not heav'n if we knew what it were. PRO. If 't were not heav'n if we knew what it were, 'Twould not be heav'n to thofe that now are there. 50 CON. And as in profpects we are there pleas'd most, Where fomething keeps the eye from being loft, And leaves us room to guess; fo here restraint Holds up delight, that with excefs would faint. PRO. Restraint preserves the pleasure we have got, But he ne'er has it that enjoys it not. In goodly prospects who contracts the space, 56 60 CON. They who know all the wealth they have are He's only rich that cannot tell his store. [poor; PRO. Not he that knows the wealth he has is poor, But he that dares not touch nor ufe his store. 66 XLIV. AN APOLOGY. FOR HAVING LOVED BEFORE. THEY that never had the ufe So they that are to love inclin'd, To man, that as in th' ev'ning made, He gazing tow'rd the east did stand, But when the bright fun did appear, His wonder was determin'd there, And could no higher rife. He neither might, nor wish'd to know 25 A more refulgent light: For that (as mine your beauties now) 28 XLV. THE NIGHT-PIECE: OR, A PICTURE DRAWN IN THE DARK. DARKNESS, which faireft nymphs difarms, Defends us ill from Mira's charms: Mira can lay her beauty by, Her fpeech is grac'd with sweeter found As the bright stars and Milky Way, While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark : Her fhining image is a light Fix'd in our hearts, and conquers night. Like jewels to advantage fet, Her beauty by the shade does get: 5 ΤΟ 15 20 There bluffies, frowns, and cold disdain, Is hid, and our indulgent mind Presents the fair idea kind. Yet, friended by the night, we dare. He that on her his bold hand lays ; All near approaches threaten death So we th' Arabian coaft do know Volume I. 25 30 35 40 42 XLVI. PART OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S NEIS. TRANSLATED. Beginning at V. 437. ------- Talefque miferrima filetus And ending with Adnizi torquent fpumas, et cærula verrunt. V. §83. ALL this her weeping fifter * does repeat 15 |