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AMYNTAS.
Nay, humanize thy breast; put on the woman;
Nor be a rebel to the voice of nature.
Nor be a rebel to the voice of nature.
SYLVIA.
Let other nymphs court the delights of love;
If love indeed has more delights than pains;
A hardy, Amazonian life be mine:
Let but my bow with happy negligence
Be flung, my quiver gracefully depend;
And I shall think my person well adorned.
Let me the timid hare, or stag pursue;
Let me the foremost brave the fiercer savage,
Urge the nice aim, and bring him to the ground;
And I shall never, Daphne, want employment
To keep the working mind enough in action.
Let other maids, of a more languid frame,
Their souls enervate with destructive love.
Let other nymphs court the delights of love;
If love indeed has more delights than pains;
A hardy, Amazonian life be mine:
Let but my bow with happy negligence
Be flung, my quiver gracefully depend;
And I shall think my person well adorned.
Let me the timid hare, or stag pursue;
Let me the foremost brave the fiercer savage,
Urge the nice aim, and bring him to the ground;
And I shall never, Daphne, want employment
To keep the working mind enough in action.
Let other maids, of a more languid frame,
Their souls enervate with destructive love.
DAPHNE.
Insipid pleasures! an unnatural life!
And if those rustic occupations please thee,
It is because thou hast not proved sublimer.
Thus to the world yet in its infant state,
Insipid pleasures! an unnatural life!
And if those rustic occupations please thee,
It is because thou hast not proved sublimer.
Thus to the world yet in its infant state,
Acorns
