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Show . IO TfoREh'A?sE;cr, Difplay'd fuch Charms, /*. . * mi'lit have fhaken the mofHioiy. Hermit, • AnA made him totter at h*,f » ^ , i W ; W s . 1 never imejVion? moment. sPface l.-.ey Lre Lin'this-ftdc. fcft .Retreat S ^ S g h t s unbent from ^L the Cares of Life, Content with Fortune, TVnpndance W d f r o m the grating Duties of Depndance, Tmm Envv fee. Ambition under loot, The ra»""8 Flame of wild deftrudive Luft R d u X ° * warm pleafing Fire of lawtul Love, My Life glides on, and all is well wnh.n. ; Enter Amanda. Lov. M r t r t How does the happy Cat, e of my Con-hctkintfj. S tent, my dear i » « ^ ' You find me mufing on my happy State, I | ' of -rateful Thoughts to Heaven, and you Ai.!rTho1e grateful Offerings Heaven can't receive With more Delight than 1 do : Wou'd 1 cou'd (hare with it as well The Difpenfations of its Blifs, Thar 1 might fearchits choiceft Favours our, And mower 'em en your Head for ever. L!T The brgeft Boons that Heaven thinks fit to grant, To Things it has decreed mall crawl on Earth, Are in the Gift of Woman form'd like you. Perhaps when Time mall be no move, When the afpiring Soul mall take its Flight t And drop this ponderous Lump of Clay behind it, It may have Appetites we know not of, And Pleafures as refin'd as its Defires--- But till that Day of Knowledge mall inftruftme, The utmoft BlelTing that my Thought can reach, faking her in hisArms^ Is folded in my Arms, and rooted in my Heart. Am. There let it grow for ever. Lev. Weil faid, Amanda let it be for ever Wou'd Heaven grant t h a t - - 4m. 'Twereall the Heaven I'd ask. . But we are clad in black Mortality, and the dark Curiam Virtue in Danger. \ i Of eternal Kight, at laft muft drop between us. Lov. It muft : that mournful Separation we muft fee A bitter Pill it is to all; but doubles its ungrateful Taft'e When Lovers are to fwallow it. Am. Perhaps that Pain may only be my Lor You poffibly may be exempted from it; Men find out fofter Ways to quench their Fires. Lov. Can you then doubt my Conftancy, Amanda * You'll find 'tis built upon a fteddy Bofis , The Rock of Reafon now fupports my Love On which it ftands fo fix'd, The rudeft Hurricane of wild Defire Would, like the Breath of a foft (lumbering Babe Pafs by, and never (hake it. Am. Yet ftill 'tis fafer to avoid the Storm ; The ftrongeft VeiTels, if they put to Sea, May poflibly be loft. Wou'd I cou'd keep you here in this calm Port for ever » Forgive the Weaknefs of a Woman, I am uneafy at your going to ftay fo long in Town • I know its falfe insinuating Pleafures : I know the Force of its Deluflons; I know the Strength of its Attacks; I know the weak Defence of Nature; 1 know you are a Man and I - a Wife. Lov. You know then all that needs to give you Reft For Wife's the ftrongeft Claim that you can urge. When you would plead your Title to my Heart, On this you may depend ; therefore be calm, Banifh your Fears, for they areTraytors to your Peace* Beware of them, they are infinuating bufy Things That goffip to and fro, and do a world of Mifchief Where they come : But you mall foon beMiftrefs of'email I'll aid you with fuch Arms for their Deftru&ion, They never mall ereft their Heads again. You know the Bufinefs is indifpenfible, that obliges Me to go for London ; and you have no Reafon, that I Know of, to believe that I'm glad of the Occailon : For my honeft Confcience is my Witnefs, 1 have found a due Succefilon of fuch Charms In |
