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Show i7$) CAMILLA. But what ca^ dif7POgage what honor owes ? J U L I. A. 'You would in vajnjitguife.^thing, deugn'd, . JtStftZK&faleThK yefterday, dj,dfind i For the reception yoatohun did give, Hath made his late repining hope revive. CAMILLA. If to Valerius I then paid f <?fpq#, You nothing thence muft for his hope collect > But I your error now. will ditabuie , And for m y Cmi/f keep a; flame too' lure, Such a fufpicidivldng^r to endure. . You know his Sifter was noiSfopner led. By happy Manage, to ; p ) ( ? W f » But that m y father g p t f h b « t i } ^ d > That time p^mu^mM^ *£&! At once our ^ri'age, and the W a r refolvA, Our hopes created, and thofe fopes diflolv d; It promis'dall,.and^thtnii1?tc)¥d all away, Itkfet^andLoversinaday,: H o w violenfbiir grief did the^ appear,. H o w many blafohcmies; Hca^p # n d.d ;>ear, And from my^feyes how maay u.vers kii, I tell y.ou nof,'you faw- our laft Urewell. ,, Theteftp ,of m y Soul, you lince have feen, And of m y Vows for Peace .have witnefsbeen ; A . _.._ „..c ;n WTv A rafted brelt, At every iron '^PgMmm^ - „ M y Courft?f a'nd Aif t f cr did contefl: •, • Tofs'd « u^ertfcfiQUghts^ I fled for eafe T o the relief of'facred ;Of afks-t Judge if w l « t . Y e f t e r d a X iM^Wn ' . ' Milt not •$m\$y$#&W ^art again; That famous Greek who-at i ^ i l f ! 1 * And Heav'ns dark purp^ff to men foretells, He whom Apo^v^ ygj$ feray d, UH I* (75) By this reply m y ftormy thoughts allay'd. "Alba and Rome to morrow changing face, " Shall to thy wifli'd for peace at laft give place " And to thy Curtius thou fhalt then be try'd, " So as no Fprtune ever fhall divide. I wholly on this anfwer did depend, And finding it m y utmoft hopes tranfcend, M y coul to raptures of Contentment flew, Beyond what happieft Lovers ever knew. Judge of their height; Valerius then I met, And could ev'n him behold without regret: He fpoke of Love too, and I that could hear, And never thought Valerius had been there, His Courtfliip could from m e no anger draw, For every thing feem'd Curtius that I faw. I thought all founds told m e how he did burn, And all m y anfwers Eccho'd m y return. The general Field which muft to day be fought, I yefterday had heard but minded not ~, M y Soul thofe fatal Obje&s did rejeft, And ftill on peace and marriage did reflect: But night thofe charming errors has expefd, And made m y Soul to dreadful Virions yield, Wherein vaft heaps of horror, Floods of Gore Did rob m y Joy, and all m y fear reftore: I law men dying, and then loft the fight, A Ghoft appear d, and then it took it's flight', The fatal (hades, each others fliape fupprefs, And by confufion terror did increafe. JULIA. An oppofite conftrufiion dreams require. CAMILLA. I would believe what I fo much defire; But I and all m y hopes of good fuccefs Find this a day of Battel, not of Peace. JULIA. i Twill end the War, and then a peace is fure. Oo |
