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SONGS.
SONG III.
Sylvia.
LEAVE me, ſimple ſhepherd, leave me;
Drag no more a hopeleſs chain:
I cannot like, nor would deceive thee;
Love the maid that loves again.
Corin.
Tho' more gentle nymphs ſurround me,
Kindly pitying what I feel,
Only you have power to wound me;
Sylvia, only you can heal.
Sylvia.
Corin, ceaſe this idle teazing;
Love that's forc'd is harſh and ſour:
If the lover be diſpleaſing,
To perſiſt diſguſts the more.
Corin.
