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Love once in Heaven reigned and Reason reigned on earth, But Reason now has gone above since Love had here her birth.

Phillis! a deaf man you should wed, Because your beauty he would see, And, hearing not the things you said, Would never disenchanted be.

They say I take no exercise,—but that is idle talk,— Around Emilia, fair and fat, three times a day I walk.

Return, dear maid, my longing heart to bless; I'm dying of desire to die of happiness.

Blanche says she loves me: that is true no doubt: She loves all men—and doesn't leave me out.

Nothing you love but evil—tell us why You show to virtue such antipathy? Why when you see it show so much alarm? Virtue has never done you any harm.