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lively, all admire Her charms, but she's too full of fire; Impatience ever racks her breast, Her heart a stranger is to rest. A jocund youth of bulky size This nymph beheld with tender eyes, From hers his humor differed quite, Black does not differ more from white. On his broad face and open mien There dwelt tranquillity serene; His converse is from languor free And boisterous vivacity. His sleep was sound and sweet at night, Active he was at morn like light; As day advanced he pleased still more, Macareus was the name he bore. His mistress void of thought as fair Tormented him with too much care: She adoration thought her due, And into fierce reproaches flew; Her Macareus with laughter left, And of all hopes of bliss bereft. From clime to clime like mad she ran To seek the dear, the faithless man: From him she could not live content, So first of all to court she went.