1st reading

I saw 'em kindle with Desire While with soft sighs they blew the fire, Saw the approaches of their joy, He growing more fierce & she less coy Saw how they mingled melting rays, Exchanging Love a thousand ways. Kind was the force on every side, Her new desire she could not hide, } Nor would the shepherd be denied. The blessed minute he pursud Till she transported in his arms Yields to the Conqueror all her charms. His panting breast to hers now join'd They feast on raptures unconfin'd Vast & luxuriant, such as prove The immortality of Love For who but a Divinity Could mingle souls to that degree } And melt them into Extasy. Now like the Phoenix both expire, While from the ashes of their fire } Spring up a new & soft desire Like charmers thrice they did invoke The God & thrice new Vigor took. Behn

As when the winds their airy quarrel try, Justling from every quarter of the Sky, This way & that the Mountain oak they bear His boughs they shatter & his branches tear, With leaves & falling mast they spread the Ground, The hollow Valleys Eccho to the Sound. Unmov'd the royal plant their fury mocks, Or shaken clings more closely to the rocks, For as he shoots his lowring head on high So deep in earth his fix'd foundations lie Driden's Virgil