Melissa

Prithee, Belinda (for thou know'st I'm Young, Unskill'd in Arts that to our Sex belong) Thy wiser Counsels to my Youth impart; Teach me at once to Love, and Guard my Heart; That I have Wit, can Sing and Dance you know, And the Men tell me I am Pretty too; I now have Fifteen pleasing Summers seen, And have been Courted by twice Fifteen Men; Still fresh Pretenders do my Peace Invade, They Write, they Visit, Sigh and Serenade, And try allways to Catch a Harmless Maid.

Then since our Virgin Thoughts are apt to Rove, And few escape that Noble Passion Love, Teach me, Belinda, by thy Arts to Chuse What Suiters to Admit, and which Refuse.