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[8] I view’d her face, I paus'd a while, I heard and was approv’d. She bound me to her with a ſmile, I kiſt her and I lov’d.

While Strephon thus you teize me, to declare my heart: It ſure can be no treaſon, if I the truth impart.

It was not your face ſo charming, nor yet your ſhape and air, It was your gen’rous nature, that did my heart enſnare.

When Roſalind’s face commands, how vain the eſſays of men, She frowns, we break love’s ſilken bands, ſhe ſmiles, we love again.

But yet ye fair be not inclin’d, like her your power to prove, Few nymphs can charm like Roſalind, few ſwains like me can love.

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Ovely nymph aſſuage my anguiſh, at your feet a tender ſwain. Prays you would not let him languiſh, one kind look would eaſe his pain. Did you know the lad that courts you, he need not long ſigh in vain; Prince of ſong, of dance, of ſports, you ſcarce will meet his like again.