A LETTER from SEA

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Aireft, if Time and Absence can incline

Your Heart to wand'ring Thoughts no more

than mine;

Then fhall my Hand, as changeless as my Mind,
From your glad Eyes a kindly Welcome find;
Then, while this Note my Conftancy affures,
You'll be almost as pleas'd, as I with yours.

And trust me, when I feel that kind Relief,
Abfence itself awhile fufpends its Grief:

So

may it do with you, but straight return;

For it were cruel not fometimes to mourn
His Fate, who this long time he keeps away,
Mourns all the Night, and fighs out all the Day;

Grieving yet more, when he reflects that
Muft not be happy, or must not be true.
But fince to me it seems a blacker Fate

you

To be inconftant, than unfortunate;
Remember all thofe Vows between us past,
When I from all I value parted last ;

May you alike with kind Impatience burn,
And fomething mifs, till I with Joy return;
And foon may pitying Heav'n that Blefling give,
As in the Hopes of that alone I live.

Love's

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Love's Slavery.

RAVE Fops my Envy now beget,

Who did my Pity move;

They, by the Right of wanting Wit,

Are free from Carcs of Love.

Turks honour Fools, because they are

By that Defect fecure

From Slavery and Toils of War,

Which all the reft endure.

So I, who fuffer cold Neglect

And Wounds from CELIA's Eyes,

Begin extremely to respect

Thefe Fools that feem fo wife.

Tis true, they fondly fet their Hearts

On things of no Delight;

To pass all Day for Men of Parts,

They pass alone the Night:

But CELIA never breaks their Reft;

Such Servants fhe difdains;

And fo the Fops are dully bleft,

While I endure her Chains.

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The DREAM.

EADY to throw me at the Feet

Of that fair Nymph whom I adore,

Impatient those Delights to meet,
Which I enjoy'd the Night before ;

By her wonted scornful Brow,

Soon the fond Mistake I find;

IXION mourn'd his Error fo,

When JUNO's Form the Cloud refign'd.

Sleep, to make its Charms more priz'd
Than waking Joys, which most prevail,

Had cunningly itself disguis'd

In a Shape that could not fail.

There my CELIA's fnowy Arms,

Breafts, and other Parts more dear,

Expofing new and unknown Charms,

To my transported Soul appear,

Then