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AMYNTAS.
АCT ІІІ.
SCENE I.
THYRSIS, and CHORUS.
THYRSIS, and CHORUS.
THYRSIS.
OH! cruel, fortune; Oh! inhuman Sylvia!
Oh! barbarous woman-kind! and thou dame Nature,
How negligently hast thou formed the sex!
How couldst thou spurn thy salutary laws,
And e'er give birth to such incongruous being?
Thou hast for them thy softest matter chosen,
And wrought it to enchanting elegance,
Bespeaking timid mildness, sweet compliance;
Yet, strange to tell! this perfect symmetry
Contains, within, a brood of savage passions:
Angels in body; but in soul they're demons!
Thou, kind preserver of each other species,
Hast tempted man to rush on his destruction!
OH! cruel, fortune; Oh! inhuman Sylvia!
Oh! barbarous woman-kind! and thou dame Nature,
How negligently hast thou formed the sex!
How couldst thou spurn thy salutary laws,
And e'er give birth to such incongruous being?
Thou hast for them thy softest matter chosen,
And wrought it to enchanting elegance,
Bespeaking timid mildness, sweet compliance;
Yet, strange to tell! this perfect symmetry
Contains, within, a brood of savage passions:
Angels in body; but in soul they're demons!
Thou, kind preserver of each other species,
Hast tempted man to rush on his destruction!
My
