Thus the night passed away, and in the morning, she knowing he was not very well furnished with money, gave him the key of her cabinet, where she bid him furnish himself with all he wanted; which he did, and left her, to go take orders about his horses, and other affairs, not so absolutely satisfied of her virtue, but he feared himself put upon, which the advantage he was likely to reap by the deceit, made him less consider, than he would perhaps otherwise have done. He had all the night a full possession of _Sylvia_, and found in the morning he was not so violently concerned as he was over night: it was but a repetition of what he had been feasted with before; it was no new treat, but, like matrimony, went dully down: and now he found his heart warm a little more for _Calista_, with which little impatience he left _Sylvia_. That morning a lady having sent to _Octavio_, to give her an assignation in the park; though he were not curious after beauty, yet believing there might be something more in it than merely a lady, he dressed himself and went, which was the reason he made not his visit that morning, as he used to do, to _Sylvia_, and so was yet ignorant of her ingratitude; while she, on the other side, finding herself more possessed with vanity than love; for having gained her end, as she imagined, and a second victory over his heart, in spite of all _Calista_’. charms, she did not so much consider him as before; nor was he so dear to her as she fancied he would have been, before she believed it possible to get him any more to her arms; and she found it was pride and revenge to _Calista_, that made her so fond of endearing him, and that she should thereby triumph over that haughty rival, who pretended to be so sure of the heart of her hero: and having satisfied her ambition in that point, she was more pleased than she imagined she should be, and could now turn her thoughts again to _Octavio_, whose charms, whose endearments, and lavish obligations, came anew to her memory, and made him appear the most agreeable to her genius and humour, which now leaned to interest more than love; and now she fancies she found _Philander_ duller in her arms than _Octavio_; that he tasted of _Calista_, while _Octavio_ was all her own entirely, adoring and ever presenting; two excellencies, of which _Philander_ now had but part of one. She found _Philander_ now in a condition to be ever taking from her, while _Octavio_’. was still to be giving; which was a great weight in the scale of love, when a fair woman guides the balance: and now she begins to distrust all that _Philander_ had said of his innocence, from what she now remembers she heard from _Calista_ herself, and reproaches her own weakness for believing: while her penitent thoughts were thus wandering in favour of _Octavio_, that lover arrived, and approached her with all the joy in his soul and eyes that either could express. ‘It is now, my fair