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AMYNTAS.
SCENE II.
DAPHNE, and THYRSIS.
DAPHNE, and THYRSIS.
DAPHNE.
Thyrsis, I've long perceived Amyntas' flame
For Sylvia; and heaven knows how oft
I've warmly pleaded for the hapless swain.
And I am ready with more earnestness
To urge his interest now, since you espouse it.
But trust me, I would rather undertake
To tame the playful steer, the bear, the tiger,
Than this same simple, foolish, beauteous girl,
Who will not know the charms she is endowed with,
The power, the bliss that heaven has lodged with woman;
Yet kills, with all her childish heedlessness;
Kills, though she hath not learned to take an aim.
Thyrsis, I've long perceived Amyntas' flame
For Sylvia; and heaven knows how oft
I've warmly pleaded for the hapless swain.
And I am ready with more earnestness
To urge his interest now, since you espouse it.
But trust me, I would rather undertake
To tame the playful steer, the bear, the tiger,
Than this same simple, foolish, beauteous girl,
Who will not know the charms she is endowed with,
The power, the bliss that heaven has lodged with woman;
Yet kills, with all her childish heedlessness;
Kills, though she hath not learned to take an aim.
THYRSIS.
Strange is her constitution—for thy sex
Strange is her constitution—for thy sex
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