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She. Since her Honour allows no Relief, But to pity the pains which you bear,

'Tis the best of your Fate,

(In a hopeless Estate,)

FROM MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE.

I

WHY should a foolish Marriage Vow
Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now

When Passion is decay'd?

We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we cou'd, Till our Love was lov'd out in us both: But our Marriage is dead, when the Pleasure is fled :

'Twas Pleasure first made it an Oath.

2

If I have Pleasures for a Friend, And farther Love in store,

To give o're and betimes to despair. What Wrong has he whose Joys did end,

3

He. I have try'd the false Med'cine in vain ;

For I wish what I hope not to win:
From without, my desire
Has no Food to its Fire,

But it burns and consumes me
within.

4

She. Yet at least 'tis a pleasure to know That you are not unhappy alone:

For the Nymph you adore

Is as wretched and more,

And who cou'd give no more? 'Tis a madness that he

Shou'd be jealous of me,

Or that I shou'd bar him of another:
For all we can gain is to give our selves pain,
When neither can hinder the other.

FROM THE SAME.

1

WHILST Alexis lay prest

In her Arms he lov'd best, With his hands round her neck, And his head on her breast,

And accounts all your suff'rings her He found the fierce pleasure too hasty to

own.

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Thus intranc'd they did lie,
Till Alexis did try

To recover new Breath, that again he might

die :

Then often they di'd; but the more they
did so,

The Nymph dy'd more quick, and the
Shepherd more slow.

FROM THE ASSIGNATION.

LONG betwixt Love and fear Phillis mented

ΤΟ

The day you wish'd arriv'd at last,
You wish as much that it were past,
One Minute more and night will hide
The Bridegroom and the blushing Bride.
The Virgin now to Bed do's goe:
Take care oh Youth, she rise not soe;
She pants and trembles at her doom
And fears and wishes thou wou'dst come.
The Bridegroom comes, He comes apace
With Love and Fury in his Face;
She shrinks away, Ile close pursues,
And Pray'rs and Threats at once do's use; 20
She softly sighing begs delay,
tor-And with her hand, puts his away,
Now out aloud for help she cryes,
And now despairing shuts her Eyes.

Shun'd her own wish yet at last she consented:

But loath that day shou'd her Blushes
discover,

Come, gentle Night She said,
Come quickly to my aid,
And a poor Shamefac'd Maid
Ilide from her Lover.

Now cold as Ice I am, now hot as Fire,
I dare not tell my self my own desire;
But let Day fly away, and let Night haste

her:

Grant ye kind Powers above,
Slow Hours to parting Love,
But when to Bliss we move,
Bid 'em fly faster.

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SONG OF THE SEA FIGIIT,
FROM THE SAME.

WHO ever saw a noble sight,

That never view'd a brave Sea Fight?
Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire,
Up with your Fights and your Nettings
prepare,

Your Merry Mates chear with a lusty bold
spright,

Now each Man his brindice and then to the
Fight.

St. George, St. George, we cry,
The shouting Turks reply.

Oh now it begins, and the Gunroom grows hot
Plie it with Culverin and with small shot; 10
Heark do's it not Thunder ? no 'tis the Guns

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Now each Man must resolve to dye,
20 For here the Coward cannot flye.
Drums and Trumpets toll the Knell,
And Culverins the Passing Bell
Now now they Grapple and now board a Main,
Blow up the Hatches, they're off all again:
Give 'em a broadside, the Dice run at all,
Down comes the Mast and Yard, and tack-
lings fall;

THE Day is come, I see it rise,
Betwixt the Bride's and Bridegroom's Eyes,
That Golden day they wish'd so long
Love pick'd it out amidst the throng;
He destin'd to himself this Sun,

And took the Reins and drove him on ;
In his own Beams he drest him bright,
Yet bid him bring a better night.

20

She grows giddy now like blind fortunes wheel;

She sinks there she sinks she turns up her

Keel,

Who ever beholds so noble a sight
As this so brave, so bloody Sea Fight.

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