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[Fear not, dear Love, that I'le reveal]

Fear not, dear Love, that I'le reveal
Those hours of pleasure we two steal,
No Eye shall see, nor yet the Sun,
Descry what thou and I have done.
No ear shall hear our Love, but we
As silent as the night will be,
The God of Love himself, (whose dart
Did first wound mine, and then thy heart.)
Shall never know that we can tell,
What sweets in stoln embraces dwell;
This onely means may find it out,
If when I die, Physicians doubt.
What caus'd my death, and then to view
Of all their judgments which was true;
Rip up my heart, O then I fear
The world will see thy picture there.