Thus, after a thousand transports of passion on his side, and all the seeming tenderness on hers, the night being far advanced, and new confirmations given and taken on either side of pursuing the happy agreement in the morning, which they had again resolved, they appointed that _Sylvia_ and _Antonet_ should go three miles out of town to a little village, where there was a church, and that _Octavio_ should meet them there to be confirmed and secured of all the happiness he proposed to himself in this world--_Sylvia_ being so wholly bent upon revenge (for the accomplishment of which alone she accepted of _Octavio_) that she had lost all remembrance of her former marriage with _Brilliard_: or if it ever entered into her thought, it was only considered as a sham, nothing designed but to secure her from being taken from _Philander_ by her parents; and, without any respect to the sacred tie, to be regarded no more; nor did she design this with _Octavio_ from any respect she had to the holy state of matrimony, but from a lust of vengeance which she would buy at any price, and which she found no man so well able to satisfy as _Octavio_. But what wretched changes of fortune she met with after this, and what miserable portion of fate was destined to this unhappy wanderer, the last part of _Philander_’. life, and the third and last part of this history, shall most faithfully relate. _The End of the Second Part._ The Amours of Philander and Sylvia Part III. _Octavio_, the brave, the generous, and the amorous, having left _Sylvia_ absolutely resolved to give herself to that doting fond lover, or rather to sacrifice herself to her revenge, that unconsidering unfortunate, whose passion had exposed him to all the unreasonable effects of it, returned to his own house, wholly transported with his happy success. He thinks on nothing but vast coming joys: nor did one kind thought direct him back to the evil consequences of what he so hastily pursued; he reflects not on her circumstances but her charms, not on the infamy he should espouse with _Sylvia_, but on those ravishing pleasures she was capable of giving him: he regards not the reproaches of his friends; but wholly abandoned to love and youthful imaginations, gives a loose to young desire and fancy that deludes him with a thousand soft ideas: he reflects not, that his gentle and easy temper was most unfit to join with that of _Sylvia_, which was the most haughty and humorous in nature; for though she had all the charms of youth and beauty that are conquering in her sex, all the wit and insinuation that even surpasses youth and beauty; yet to render her character impartially, she had also abundance of disagreeing qualities mixed with her perfections. She was imperious and proud even to insolence; vain and conceited even to folly; she knew her virtues and her graces too well, and her vices too little; she was very opinionated and obstinate, hard to be