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I believe I must find something for you. Will you have a love-song or a sonnet?

Any of them will do: she does not know the one from the other,

Here are verses addressed to Delia playing on the lute.

This will do very well; for tho' I don't believe she plays upon the lute, it will be civil to suppose that she does, till we really know the contrary.

You speak lightly of the lady, Worshipton, for a lover.

I am not so refined in my ideas of these matters as you are, Amaryllis. I am a man of the world, and that character can't be supported long on a slender fortune: the lady is very rich.—But mum: not a word of this to any one.

You may depend upon me. But you said you should like to hear me read some of my poems. I