_Quarrels in Dreams._
I perceive you are not able to suffer all this Injustice, nor can I
permit it any longer: and tho’ you commit no Crime yourself, yet you
believe in this Dream, that I complain of the Injuries you do my Fame;
and that I am extreamely angry with a Jealousy so prejudicial to my
Honour. Upon this belief you accuse me of Weakness; you resolve to
see me no more, and are making a thousand feeble Vows against Love.
You esteem me as a false one, and resolve to cease loving the vain
_Coquet_, and will say to me, as a certain Friend of yours said to his
false Mistress:
The Inconstant.
_Tho’., Silvia, _you are very fair,_
_Yet disagreeable to me;_
_And since you so inconstant are,_
_Your Beauty’s damn’d with Levity._
_Your Wit, your most offensive Arms,_
_For want of Judgment, wants its Charms._
_To every Lover that is new,_
_All new and charming you surprize;_
_But when your fickle Mind they view,_
_They shun the danger of your Eyes._
_Should you a Miracle of Beauty show,_
_Yet you’re inconstant, and will still be so._
’.is thus you will think of me: And in fine, _Damon_, during this
Dream, we are in perpetual State of War.
_Thus both resolve to break their Chain,_
_And think to do’t without much Pain,_
_But Oh! alas! we strive in vain._
_For Lovers, of themselves, can nothing do;_
_There must be the Consent of two:_
_You give it me, and I must give it you._
And if we shall never be free, till we acquit one another, this Tye
between you and I, _Damon_, is likely to last as long as we live;
therefore in vain you endeavour, but can never attain your End; and in
conclusion you will say, in thinking of me:
_Oh! how at ease my Heart would live,_
_Could I renounce this Fugitive;_
_This dear, but false, attracting Maid,_
_That has her Vows and Faith betray’d!_
_Reason would have it so, but Love_
_Dares not the dang’rous Tryal prove._
Do not be angry then, for this afflicting Hour is drawing to an end,
and you ought not to despair of coming into my absolute Favour again,
_Then do not let your murm’ring Heart,_
_Against my Int’rest, take your part._
_The Feud was rais’d by Dreams, all false and vain,_
_And the next Sleep shall reconcile again._
SIX o’.LOCK.
_Accommodation in Dreams._
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