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AMYNTAS.
Stored with the seeds of flowery sentiment,
Wanton in vigorous, and immortal strains,
Without the necessary, happy labour;
And knaves exchanging vice for easy virtue,
Rise in a moment to divine perfection.
Love likewise must be brave, and persevering.
Wanton in vigorous, and immortal strains,
Without the necessary, happy labour;
And knaves exchanging vice for easy virtue,
Rise in a moment to divine perfection.
Love likewise must be brave, and persevering.
AMYNTAS.
Thy eloquence ill-timed bespeaks the danger
Extreme that I must undergo to win
My cruel fair; but out with it at once;
I'll meet it with a violence as great
As all it's horror can affront me with.
Thy eloquence ill-timed bespeaks the danger
Extreme that I must undergo to win
My cruel fair; but out with it at once;
I'll meet it with a violence as great
As all it's horror can affront me with.
THYRSIS.
Suppose thy mistress in a lonely wood;
That lonely wood on every side hemmed in
With precipices, and mishapen rocks;
Those rocks resounding to the lion's roar,
Those rocks the dreadful haunts of prowling tigers;
Say, to redeem her thence couldst thou defy
The rock mishapen, and the prowling savage?
Suppose thy mistress in a lonely wood;
That lonely wood on every side hemmed in
With precipices, and mishapen rocks;
Those rocks resounding to the lion's roar,
Those rocks the dreadful haunts of prowling tigers;
Say, to redeem her thence couldst thou defy
The rock mishapen, and the prowling savage?
AMYN-
