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Poems upon several Occasions.

Pel. To love and to languish,
To sigh and complain,
How killing's the Anguish,
How tormenting the Pain!
Suing,
Pursuing
Flying,
Denying,
O the Curse of Disdain,
How tormenting's the Pain!
To love, &c.
The. Accursed Jealousie,
Thou Jaundice in the Lover's Eye,
Thro' which all Objects false we see,⁠
Accursed Jealousy!
Thy Rival, Peleus, rules the Sky,
Yet I so prize thy Love;
With Peleus I wou'd chuse to die,
Rather than live with Jove.
JUPITER appears descending.
But see, the mighty Thunderer's here;
Tremble, Peleus, tremble, fly;
The Thunderer! the mighty Thunderer!
Tremble, Peleus, tremble, fly.

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