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"There is no lover that is wife

"Pretends to win at cards or dice:

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"'Tis for his mistress all is thrown;
"The ill fortune his, the good her own.

"Melanion, whilom lovely youth,

"Fam'd for his valour and his truth,

"Whom ev'ry beauty did adorn,

"Fresh as Aurora's blushing morn,
"Into the horrid woods is run,
"Where he ne'er fees the ray of fun,
"Nor to his palace dares return,
"Where he for Pfyche's love did burn,
"And found correction at her hands
"For difobeying juft commands,

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"But muft his filent penance do

"For once not buckling of her fhoe:

"A good example, Child! for you;

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"Which fhews you when we have our fool

"We've policy enough to rule.

"I might have made you fuch a fellow
"As fhould have carry'd my umbrella,
"Or bore a flambeau by my chair,
"And bad the mob not come too near;
"Or lay the cloth, or wait at table;

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Nay, been a helper in the ftable. "To my commands obedience pay "At dead of night or break of day. Volume I,

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Speed is your province: if it is I "That bid you run you ought to fly.

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"He that Love's nimble paffion feels
"Will foon outftrip my chariot-wheels:
"Thro' Dogftar's heat he 'll tripping go, 1155
"Nor leaves he print upon the fnow:
"The wind itself to him is flow.
"He that in Cupid's wars would fight
"Grief, winter, dirty roads, and night,
"A bed of earth midst show'rs of rain,
"After no fupper, are his gain.

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Bright Phœbus took Admetus' pay,

"All this he did for fear of Jove;

"And who would not do more for Love?

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"If entrance is by locks deny'd,

"Then thro' the roof or window flide,

"Leander each night swam the feas
"That he might thereby Hero please:

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Perhaps I may be pleas'd to see

"Your life in danger when for me.
"You'll find my fervants in a row,
"Remember then you make your bow,
"For they are your fuperiours now.
"No matter if you do engage

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My porter, woman, fav'rite page, My dog, my parrot, monkey, black, "Or any thing that does partake "Of that admittance which you lack.

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"But after all you may n't prevail,

"And your most glitt'ring hopes may fail;

"For Ceres does not always yield

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"The crop entrusted to the field.

"Fair gales may bring you to a coast

"Where you'll by hidden rocks be lost.

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"Love is tenacious of its joys,

"Gives small reward for great employs,
"But has as many griefs in store
"As fhells by Neptune caft on shore,
"As Athos hares, as Hybla bees,
"Olives on the Palladian trees;

"And when his angry arrows fall

"They're not found ting'd with common gall. "You 're told I'm not at home, it is true :

I may be there but not for you,

"And I may let you fee it too.

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Perhaps I bid you come at night: "If the door is fhut ftay till it is light. "Perhaps my maid shall bid you go, "A thing fhe knows you dare not do. "Your rival fhall adniiffion gain, "And laugh to fee his foe in pain. "All this and more you must endure "If you from me expect a cure. "'Tis fitting I should search the wound "Left all your danger be not found."

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When eafy fondness meets with woman's pride, Nothing which that can ask must be deny'd. He that enjoy'd the names of great and brave Is pleas'd to feem a female and a flave. The hero number'd with the gods before Is fo debas'd as to be man no more.

PART IX.

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NoT by the fail with which you put to fea
Can you where Thetis fwells conducted be:
To the fame port you 'll diff'rent paffage find, 1215
And fill your fheets ev'n with contrarious wind.
You nurs'd the fawn now grown ftag wondrous big,
And fleep beneath the shade you knew a twig.
The bubbling fpring, increas'd by floods and rain,
Rolls with impetuous ftream and foams the main :
So Love augments in juft degrees; at length 1221
By nutrimental fires it gains its strength.

Daily till midnight let kind looks or fong,

Or tales of Love, the pleafing hours prolong.
No wearinefs upon their bliss attends

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Whom marriage-vows have render'd more than

So Philomels of equal mates poffeft

With a congenial heat and downy reft

And care inceffant hover o'er their neft;

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Hence from their eggs (fmall worlds whence all things Produce a race by Nature taught to fing, [fpring)

Who ne'er to this harmonious air had come

Had their parental love ftray'd far from home.

By a fhort abfence mutual joys increase :

'Tis from the toils of war we value peace.

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When Jove a while the fruitful fhow'r restrains,
The field on his return a brighter verdure gains:
So let not grief too much disturb thofe hearts
Which for a while the war or bus'nefs parts.
'Twas hard to let Protefilaus go,

Who did his death by oracles foreknow.
Ulyffes made indeed a tedious stay;
His twenty winters' abfence was delay:
But happiness revives with his return,

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And Hymen's altars with fresh incense burn. 1245
Tales of his fhip, her web, they both recount, [mount.
Pleas'd that their wedlock-faith all dangers could fur-
Make thou speed back; hafte to her longing arms;
She may have real or impending harms.
There are no minutes in a lover's fears;

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They measure all their time by months and years. Poets are always virtue's friends;

'Tis what their Mufe ftill recommends;

But then the fatal track it fhows
Where devious vice thro' trouble goes.

They tell us how a husband's care
Neglected leaves a wife too fair

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In hands of a young spark call'd Paris,
And how the beauteous truft miscarries.

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