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(3) On Phillis fair, among the rest,

kind Fortune fix’d my eyes,

Her piercing beauties struck my heart,

and she became my choice.

To Cupid now, with hearty pray’r,

I offer’d many a vow;

And danc’d, & sung, & sigh’d, & swore,

as other lovers do:

But when at last I breath’d my flame,

I found her cold as stone;

I left the girl and tun’d my pipe

to John o’ Badenyon.

When love had thus my heart beguil’d,

with foolish hopes and vain,

To friendship next I steer’d my course,

and laugh’d at lovers’ pain:

A friend I got by lucky chance,

’twas something like divine,

An honest friend’s a precious gift,

and such a gift was mine;

And now, whatever might betide,

a happy man was I;

In any strait I knew to whom

I freely might apply;