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RECITATIVE.

But Celia now repenting

Her breach of affignation,
Arriv'd with eyes consenting,

And sparkling inclination.

Like Citherea fmiling,

She blush'd, and laid his paffion;
The fhepherd ceas'd reviling,
And fung this recantation.

PALINODE.

"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,

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"By contriving kind delays,

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"And advancing or retiring,

"All they mean is more to please."

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GRANT

THE PETITION.

IT me, gentle Love! faid I,
One dear blefling ere I die;
Long I've borne excess of pain,
Let me now fome blifs obtain.

Thus to almighty Love I cry'd,
When angry, thus the god reply'd:

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"Nor Time nor Fate his glory fhall oppofe,

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"Or blaft the monuments the Mufe beftows." This faid, no more remain'd. Th' ethereal hoft Again impatient crowd the crystal coaft.

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The father now within his fpacious hands Encompass'd all the mingled mafs of feas and lands, And having heav'd aloft the pond rous sphere,

He lanch'd the world to float in ambient air.

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RECITATIVE.

But Celia now repenting

Her breach of affignation,
Arriv'd with eyes confenting,

And sparkling inclination.

Like Citherea fmiling,

She blush'd, and laid his paffion;
The fhepherd ceas'd reviling,
And fung this recantation.

PALINODE.

"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,

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'By contriving kind delays,

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"And advancing or retiring,

"All they mean is more to please."

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THE PETITION.

GRANT me, gentle Love! said I,
One dear bleffing ere I die;
Long I've borne excess of pain,
Let me now fome blifs obtain.

Thus to almighty Love I cry'd,
When angry, thus the god reply'd:

Bleflings greater none can have, Art thou not mynta's flave? Ceafe, fond Mortal! to implore,

For Love, Love himself 's no more.

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ABSENCE.

AH! what pains, what racking thoughts, he proves,

Who lives remov'd from her he dearest 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.

AMORET.

I.

FAIR Amoret is gone aftray,
Purfue and feek her ev'ry lover;
I'll tell the figns by which you may
The wand'ring fhepherdefs difcover.

II.

Coquetre and coy at once her air,
Both study'd, tho' both feem neglected;
Careless this, with artful care

Affecting to feem unaffected.

III.

With skill her eyes dart ev'ry glance,

Yet change fo foon you'd ne'er futpect 'em,
For the'd perfuade they wound by chance,

Tho' certain aim and art direct 'em.

IV.

She likes herself, yet others hates

For that which in herself the prizes;
And while fhe laughs at thens, forgets
She is the thing that she defpifes.

LESBIA.

WHEN Lefbia first I saw so heav'nly fair,
With eyes fo bright, and with that awful air,
I thought my heart, which durft fo high afpire,
As bold as his who fratch'd celeftial fire;
But foon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke,

Forth from her coral lips fuch folly broke,

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Like balm the trickling nonfenfe heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthrall'd her tongue unbound.

DORIS.

DORIS, a nymph of riper age,

Has every grace and art;
A wife obferver to engage
Or wound a heedlefs heart.

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