AMYNTAS.
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In magick beams are darted from the eye.
She smiled on her Elpinus with her eyes:
I marked them—these were their distinct expressions.
"Dear swain, my person, and my heart are thine.
"Implore the deities of love no more,
"No further testimony can I give thee
"Of my affection now; this is enough
"For modest nymph to give, chaste swain to take.
"Enough thou wilt esteem it, if Elpinus
"Honest as bright believes Lycoris' eyes;
"If they deserve at once his faith and love.
She smiled on her Elpinus with her eyes:
I marked them—these were their distinct expressions.
"Dear swain, my person, and my heart are thine.
"Implore the deities of love no more,
"No further testimony can I give thee
"Of my affection now; this is enough
"For modest nymph to give, chaste swain to take.
"Enough thou wilt esteem it, if Elpinus
"Honest as bright believes Lycoris' eyes;
"If they deserve at once his faith and love.
SYLVIA.
What reason had he to suspect their truth?
What reason had he to suspect their truth?
DAPHNE.
What? didst thou never hear what Thyrsis wrote
In love's delirium, on Lycoris' eyes?
When the poor shepherd, stung to amorous frenzy,
What? didst thou never hear what Thyrsis wrote
In love's delirium, on Lycoris' eyes?
When the poor shepherd, stung to amorous frenzy,
Roamed
