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AMYNTAS.
As thy luxurious fancy painteth me,
Retorted rivers to their springs shall flow;
The wolf shall fly the lamb, the hound the hare;
The bear shall quit the land, and seek the sea;
The dolphin flounce upon our towering Alps.
Retorted rivers to their springs shall flow;
The wolf shall fly the lamb, the hound the hare;
The bear shall quit the land, and seek the sea;
The dolphin flounce upon our towering Alps.
DAPHNE.
I know the obstinate caprice of youth:
Such as my Sylvia is, was Daphne too.
My person, and my face, resembled thine.
Like thine my hair in flaxen ringlets waved.
My lips were just of that vermilion hue;
And on my cheeks the rose by fine degrees
Was in the lily lost. My passion then,
(The passion of an unexperienced maid)
Was but to tend the nets, to lime the twigs,
To whet the dart, and trace the timorous deer;
And if I met a shepherd’s amorous eye,
I, savage-like, fixed mine upon the ground,
In shame, and rage; nay I despised my charms,
I hated them, because they pleased another.
As if it had been crime, and infamy,
I know the obstinate caprice of youth:
Such as my Sylvia is, was Daphne too.
My person, and my face, resembled thine.
Like thine my hair in flaxen ringlets waved.
My lips were just of that vermilion hue;
And on my cheeks the rose by fine degrees
Was in the lily lost. My passion then,
(The passion of an unexperienced maid)
Was but to tend the nets, to lime the twigs,
To whet the dart, and trace the timorous deer;
And if I met a shepherd’s amorous eye,
I, savage-like, fixed mine upon the ground,
In shame, and rage; nay I despised my charms,
I hated them, because they pleased another.
As if it had been crime, and infamy,
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