Anonymous

“ False Flames, Love's Meteors, yield my Torch no Light.
BOTH WOMEN
Turn then thine Eyes upon those Glories there,
And catching Flames will on thy Torch appear.
HYMEN
My Torch, indeed, will from such Brightness shine
Love ne'er had yet such Altars, so divine.
They shall be as happy as they're fair;
Love shall fill all the Places of Care
And every time the Sun shall display his Rising Light,
It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ”

“ Even Love who rules all things in Earth, Air, and Sea;
Would languish, and fade, and to nothing would fall,
The World to its Chaos would return, but for me.
Hail! Great Parent of us all,
Light and Comfort of the Earth ”

“ When I have often heard young Maids complaining,
That when Men promise most they most deceive,
The I thought none of them worthy of my gaining;
And what they Swore, resolv'd ne're to believe.
But when so humbly he made his Addresses,
With Looks so soft, and with Language so kind,
I thought it Sin to refuse his Caresses;
Nature o'ercame, and I soon chang'd my Mind.
Should he employ all his wit in deceiving,
Stretch his Invetion, and artfully feign;
I find such Charms, such true Joy in believing,
I'll have the Pleasure, let him have the Pain. ”