V.
_The Virgin here shows no disdain,_ }
_Nor does the Shepherd Sigh in vain,_ }
_This knows no Cruelty, nor that no Pain:_ }
_No Youth complains upon his rigorous fair;_ }
_No injur’d Maid upon her perjur’d dear,_ }
_’.is only_ Love, _fond_ Love _finds entrance here;_ }
_The Notes of Birds, the Murmuring Boughs,_
_When gentle Winds glide through the Glades,_
_Soft Sighs of Love, and soft breath’d Vows,_
_The tender Whisperings of the yielding Maids,_
_Dashing Fountains, Purling Springs,_
_The short breath’d crys from faint resistance sent,_
_(Crys which no aid desires or brings)_
_The soft effects of Fear and Languishment;_
_The little struggling of the fair,_
_The trembling force of the young Conqueror,_
_The tender Arguments he brings,_
_The pretty Non-sence with which she assails._
_Which as she speaks, she hopes it nought prevails_
_But yielding owns her_ Love _above her Reasonings,_
_Is all is heard: Silence and shade the rest._
_Which best with_ Love, _which best with Joys consist,_
_All which young Eccho’s through the Bower does sing,_
_Where every thing is heard, that’s sweet and ravishing._
VI.
_Recesses Dark, and Grotto’s all conspire,_
_To favour_ Love _and soft desire;_
_Shades, Springs and Fountains flowry Beds,_ }
_To Joys invites, to Pleasure leads,_ }
_To Pleasure which all Humane thought exceeds._ }
_Heav’n, Earth, and Sea, here all combine,_ }
_To propagate_ Love’s _great design,_ }
_And render the Appointments all Divine._ }
_After long toyl, ‘tis here the Lover reaps_
_Transporting softnesses beyond his hopes;_
_’.is here fair Eyes, all languishing impart_
_The secrets of the fond inclining Heart;_
_Fine Hands and Arms for tender Pressings made,_
_In_ Love’s _dear business always are imploy’d:_
_The soft Inchantments of the Tongue,_
_That does all other Eloquence controul,_
_Is breath’d with broken Sighs among,_
_Into the Ravish’d Shepherds Soul,_
_Whilst all is taken, all is given,_
_That can compleat a Lovers Heav’n:_
_And_ Io Peans _through the Woods do ring,_
_From new fletch’d God, in Songs all Ravishing._
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