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 If ever mov'd with Barberissa's Charms, You took the easy Victim to your Arms: If by no previous Promises betray'd, E'er join'd by Priest, I fell a willing Maid: If those yon glimmering Lamps, which rowl above, Ne'er saw a second Rival in my Love. Ah! do not go! let me your Stay implore But for one Night, and I will ask no more.

She said: The Torrent of her amorous Flame Threw on a trusty Stool the swooning Dame. The moving Sight her Lord's brave Soul opprest; Honour and Love contended in his Breast. Till calling his known Courage to his Aid, Thus to the Queen of his Desires he said: (But with a Voice which spoke divided Care, A Lover's Sweetness, and a Husband's Air,) Madam,