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Is't possible, Leticia, thou wou'dst fly To foreign Shores with me? Let. Can Bellmour doubt the Soul he knows so well? Bel. Perhaps in time the King may find my Innocence, and may extend his Mercy: Mean time I'll make provision for our Flight. Let. But how 'twixt this and that can I defend My self from the loath'd Arms of an impatient Dotard, That I may come a spotless Maid to thee? Bel.
"Oh, how I loath'd him! how I scorn'd His idiot laugh, or demon frown, His features bloated and deform'd; The jests with which he sought to drown The consciousness of sin, or storm'd, To put reproof or anger down.
She knew not what she lack'd, nor that she loath'd The hollow semblance, the dull mockery, Which she had gain'd for joy by choosing rank, And money's worth, instead of peace and love. Yet ever as the long days grew to months More heavy hung the time, moved slower by.
Rejoice! o'er the sluggard tide Of the Styx thy bark can glide, And thy steps evermore shall rove Through the glades of the happy grove; Where, far from the loath'd Cocytus, The loved and the lost invite us. Thou art slave to the earth no more! O soul, thou art freed! and we? Ah! when shall our toil be o'er? Ah! when shall we rest with thee?
Back to thy loath'd cell; And when thou seest the new enlightened sphere, Study to know but what those worthies were. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live.
Had I but kept my Sacred Vows to Gayman, How happy had I been how prosperous he! Whilst now I languish in a loath'd embrace, Pine out my Life with Age Consumptions, Coughs. But dost thou fear that Gayman is declining? Bred. You are my Lady, and the best of Mistresses Therefore I would not grieve you, for I know You love this best but most unhappy Man. L. Ful. You shall not grieve me prithee on.
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