Though I complained thus for a good while, I was not without some secret hope, that what I had heard was not true; nor would I be persuaded to undeceive myself of that hope which was so dear and precious to me. I was not willing to be convinced I was intirely miserable, out of too great a fear to find it true; and there were some Moments in which I believed _Fame_ might falsly accuse _Silvia_, and it did not seem reasonable to me, that, after all the Vows and Oaths she had made, she should so easily betray ‘em, and forgetting my Services, receive those of another, less capable of rend’ring them to her advantage. Sometimes I would excuse her ingratitude with a thousand things that seem’d reasonable, but still that was but to make me more sensible of my disgrace; and then I would accuse myself of a thousand weaknesses below the Character of a Man; I would even despise and loath my own easiness, and resolve to be no longer a _Mark-out-fool_ for all the Rhiming Wits of the Island to aim their Dogrel at. And grown, as I imagined, brave at this thought, I resolved first to be fully convinced of the perfidy of my Mistress, and then to rent my Heart from the attachment that held it. You know, that from the _Desart of Remembrance_, one does, with great facility, look over all the _Island of Love_. I was resolved to go thither one day; and where indeed I could survey all things that past, in the Groves, the Bowers, by Rivers, or Fountains, or whatever other place, remote or obscure ‘twas from thence, that one day I saw the faithless _Silvia_, in the Palace of _True Pleasure_, in the very Bower of Bliss with one of my Rivals, but most intimate Friend. ‘Twas there, I saw my Rival take Pleasures, he knew how to make; There he took, and there was given, All the Joys that Rival Heaven; Kneeling at her Feet he lay, And in transports dy’d away: Where the faithless suffer’d too All the amorous Youth cou’d do. The Ardour of his fierce desire Set his Face and Eyes on fire. All their Language was the Blisses Of Ten thousand eager Kisses; While his ravish’d Neck she twin’d And to his Kisses, Kisses join’d; Till, both inflam’d, she yeilded so She suffer’d all the Youth cou’d do.