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 Not being with civil forms confirm'd and bounded, For human dignities and comforts founded: But loose and secret all their glories hide; Fear fills the chamber, Darkness decks the bride.

She vanish'd, leaving pierc'd Leander's heart With sense of his unceremonious part, In which with plain neglect of nuptial rites He close and flatly fell to his delights: And instantly he vow'd to celebrate All rites pertaining to his married state. So up he gets, and to his father goes, To whose glad ears he doth his vows disclose: The nuptials are resolv'd with utmost power, And he at night would swim to Hero's tower, From whence he meant to Sestos' forked bay To bring her covertly, where ships must stay, Sent by her father, thoroughly rigg'd and mann'd, To waft her safely to Abydos' strand.— There leave we him; and with fresh wing pursue Astonish'd Hero, whose most wished view I thus long have forborne, because I left her So out of count'nance, and her spirits bereft her.