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THE Constant COUPLE:
OR, THE Protesting Lovers.
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Speakers' names have been abbreviated in this text. The abbreviations used for major characters are as follows:
- For Dam. read Damon
- For Mir. read Miranda
I
Under a pleasant Myrtle's Shade,Within a silent Grove,
Young Damon and Miranda met,
And thus discours'd of Love.
Oh! My Miranda, thou'rt more fair
Than Lillies newly blown;
More soft than Cytharea's Doves,
Or the young Swan's first Down.
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Strong as a Mountain is thy Form,
Yet gentle is thy Mind;
And thou art he, whom I alone
Can love of all Mankind.
Dam.
Was fair Oenone to revive,
And dwell upon our Plain;
To own a Love-sick Flame for me,
That Flame should rise in vain.
Mir.
Was Paris to confess my Charms,
I'd scorn the lovely Boy;
Prefer an humble Life with thee
To all the Pomp of Troy.
Dam.
For thee, Miranda, I have kept
A Lambkin in my Fold;
Apples, and Plumbs, and lovely Grapes,
With Purple streakt, and Gold.
Mir.
I have a tuneful Pipe and Crook,
(A Present made to me)
A Garland too of choicest Flowers,
Which I've preserv'd for thee.
Dam.
No Swain was ever sure possest
Of such extatic Bliss!
Oh! Let us join our Hearts and Hands,
And seal 'em with a Kiss!
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No Nymph was ever sure so blest
With such a Swain as I!
But wilt thou ever prove thus kind,
And never from me fly?
Dam.
Fear not your Swain will e'er prove false,
Or from his Charmer rove:
When 'tis an Angel we admire,
We cannot change our Love.
XI
Thus like the first blest Pair they sat,Before their fallen State;
More proud of being kind and chast,
Than being Rich or Great.
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