persuade them to go, thô in my heart I was very ill satisfi’d I had not persu’d the counsel, _Love_ had given me not to go to _Favors_ at all; he foreseeing an inconvenience in such a retreat, which I, with all my young desires about me and fond of novelty, cou’d not, so well as he, discern; however I had propos’d it with some ardency and wou’d not go back, but resolv’d to make the best advantage of my voyage, and wou’d not declare my regreet till I cou’d no longer hinder it: So that _Bellimante_, yeilding to my Implorings, consented next day to go with me to this retreat of _Favors_. Accordingly the next morning we set out for this amiable place; where we arrived, and finding myself all alone, without interruption or fear, with this very fair Creature, I advanced to a thousand Freedoms which she, with some resistance, permitted me to take: I was all Joy and Transport at every advance, and still the nearer I approached to the last Favour, the more blest I imagined myself; I grew more resolved, and she more feeble; and at last, I was the Victor and _Bellimante_ the Victim; I remained some days with her, and one would have imagined I should have been intirely happy in this place with one so young and fair: But behold the fickleness of, Youth, and Man’s nature. Thô my Heart were full of Passion, And I found the yeilding Maid Give a loose to inclination While her Love her Flame betray’d; Yet thô all she did impart, Pain and Anguish prest my Heart. Thô I found her all o’r Charming, Fond and sighing in my Arms; Yet my Heart anew was warming For _Bellinda’s_ unknown Charms; Thought, if Beauty pleas’d me so, What must Wit and Beauty too? And though next day I found myself a hundred times more in Love with _Bellimante_ than before, yet unless I could possess _Bellinda_ too, I thought myself miserable: Yet every time she charmed me anew I was upon the point of renouncing eternally _Bellinda_, and sacrificing her to my Passion for _Bellimante_: But I did not remain long in that Humour, but every day grew more and more unresolved in that point; and as _Bellimante_ grew more fond I grew more cold; not but I had learnt to say so many kind and soft things in the time of my real Passion with _Silvia_, that I found it easie to speak every day such endearing Words as gave her no doubt of my Heart; nor was willing she should see to the bottom of it, where she would most certainly have found _Bellinda_; yet with such a mixture of Passion for herself, that it would have been hard to have distinguished, which had had the ascendant there; only my desire at present was the most considerable for the fair Object I had not yet possest, and whom I long’d to vanquish; perhaps, as much for the Glory as the Pleasure, though my Heart did not at this moment think so.