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Show i7$) .,/70CAMI;LLA. But what caq dif-eugage what honor owes ? ....,,:, . j.U L i A. Ji •• _ • 'You would in vain difgnffr a thinfl fotifla'A, - fcltf which F*/frra£ yefterday did find ; For the reception you to him did give, Hath made his late repining hope revive. CAMILLA. If to Valerius I then, paid f<?fpq#, You nothing thence jt»uft for bis hope collect j AnotHTOll ft my torf?*** But I your error now will ditabute; And for m y Curti/s keep a flame too' fure, Such a fufpicidifldnge^ to endure. You know his' Sifter was nevfopner led; | By happy MarrVage, to ;pym Sfitfto***1 But that my. Father / W f t b.y,;him) tklrd, I mould reward'' the % j,had>(pir d(h \ That time p ^ ' ^ ^ M f t f i f t l * 1 ^ S ; j, At once our Carriage, and the W a r refolv d, - Our hopes created, and thofe h^pes diflolv d; i. .-.'j -it „.,,J.eVir..-. AnihK/il all a w a y, How violent oiir gqef did theai appear, H o w many blafphcmit^ Hca^n then did hear, And from riy'.Eyes h ow many Rivers fill© I tell ypu no£"you.faw, our J#vft Jewell. The fltf&rjfi?*of m y Soul, you iince have feen, And of m y Vows for Peace have witnefs been h At every news in my'M^cled breft, eafe M y Courftry'and' my.Lover did conteft ; Toft'd $it# u;^ertaY^QUghts^, I fled for ea T o the relief o f facred yfelfi .1 Judge if wlpt yefterdav l.d^pbtain, Might not affiue my, di|c)qpjr?g heart again That famous Greek 'wh^at, th',. Av&nipe. dwells, And Heav'ns dark purp^ff to men foretells, He whom ^ ( / y ^ v e ^ t b^ray'd, ^ JIM A3 I (75) By this reply m y ftormy thoughts alky'd. « Shall To AvT-fl • .Tr°W ^^ faCe' Shall to thy w.H! d for peace at laft give placej And to thy Cnrtms thou ihalt then be tiVd, So as no .Fortune ever fhall divide. I wholly on this anfwer did depend, And finding it m y utmoft hopes tran'feend M y Soul to raptures of Contentment flew Beyond what happieft Lovere 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 Courtfhip 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 rejefl, And ftill on peace and marriage did reflefi: But night thofe charming errors has cxpel'd, And made m y Soul to dreadful Vifions 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 ftiades, each others fhape fupprefs, And by confufion terror did increafe. J U L I A, An oppofite conftru&ion dreams require. CAMILLA. I would believe what I fb much defire; But I and all m y hopes of good fuccefs Find this a day of Battel, not of Peace. } JULIA. Twill end the War, and then a peace is fure. O ° CA» ! |