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AMYNTAS.
Admiring but the surface of our worth.
An easy shape, fine face, and sparkling eye,
Are all that strike their gross imagination,
Impassive to superiour mental beauty.
An easy shape, fine face, and sparkling eye,
Are all that strike their gross imagination,
Impassive to superiour mental beauty.
THYRSIS.
I was not jesting Daphne, but as you
Are mistress of the theory of woman,
You will, by rule, decline the first proposal.
But if you seriously reject my tender,
I will resolve to bid adieu to love.
I was not jesting Daphne, but as you
Are mistress of the theory of woman,
You will, by rule, decline the first proposal.
But if you seriously reject my tender,
I will resolve to bid adieu to love.
DAPHNE.
Why shouldst thou, Thyrsis, bid adieu to love?
Thy happy circumstances love invites:
Love is of delicate and tender growth,
By life's inclemencies 'tis nipt and blighted.
To flourish in perfection, it demands
The fostering ray of warm prosperity.
You have been fortunate, you're blessed with affluence,
And affluence is the soil for love to spring on.
Why shouldst thou, Thyrsis, bid adieu to love?
Thy happy circumstances love invites:
Love is of delicate and tender growth,
By life's inclemencies 'tis nipt and blighted.
To flourish in perfection, it demands
The fostering ray of warm prosperity.
You have been fortunate, you're blessed with affluence,
And affluence is the soil for love to spring on.
THYR-
