THE

ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY.

PART THE SECOND.

A RETIR'D FRIENDSHIP:

TO ARDELIA.

BY MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS.

I.

COME, my Ardelia, to this bow'r,

Where kindly mingling fouls awhile, Let's innocently spend an hour,

And at all ferious follies fmile.

* Born 1631 ; dyed 1664. Her maiden name was Fowler.

II.

Here is no quarrelling for crowns,

Nor fear of changes in our fate;

No trembling at the great ones frowns,
Nor any flavery of state.

III.

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Here let us fit and bless our stars,
Who did fuch happy quiet give,

As that remov'd from noife of wars
In one another's hearts we live.

We wear about us fuch a charm,

No horror can be our offence;

For mischief's felf can do no harm
To friendship or to innocence.

VII.

Let's mark how foon Apollo's beams

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Command the flocks to quit their meat,

And not entreat the neighb'ring streams
To quench their thirst, but cool their heat.

VIII.

In fuch a fcorching age as this

Who would not ever seek a fhade

Deferve their happiness to miss,

As having their own peace betray'd.

IX.

But we (of one another's mind

Affur'd) the boift'rous world disdain ;

With quiet fouls, and unconfin'd,

Enjoy what princes wish in vain.

And on the heart of charming Sylvia seize,'

Then quickly back again return to me,

Since that's the only cure for my disease;

But if you miss her breaft whom I adore,
Then take your flight, and visit mine no more,

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LOVE ARM'D.

BY MRS. APHRA BEHN.

LOVE in fantaftick triumph fat,

Whilft bleeding hearts around him flow'd,
For whom fresh pains he did create,
And strange tyrannick power he fhew'd;
From thy bright eyes he took his fire,
Which round about in sport he hurl'd;
But 'twas from mine he took defire,
Enough to undo the amorous world.

From me he took his fighs and tears,
From thee his pride and cruelty;
From me his languishments and fears,
And every killing dart from thee;
Thus thou and I the god have arm'd,
And fet him up a deity;

But my poor heart alone is harm'd,

Whilst thine the victor is, and free.

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* Born 1645? dyed 1689. Her maiden name was Johnson,