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That he, by thy disdain at length, enraged,
Turns all his thoughts on Amaryllis' charms;
And forms her, by imagination's power,
Into his object of connubial bliss?
What then will be thy mind? how will it bear
To think him irretrievably another's?
To think him happy in a rival's arms?
To see him give thee back thy haughty scorn?

SYLVIA.
 Amyntas, as he pleases, may bestow
His heart, and person; 'tis not my concern.
He never can be mine; why should I then
Envy the fortune of the maid he chuses?
Nay~were he mine, I never could be his:
Affection shrinks; it withers on compulsion.

DAPHNE.
 Whence your aversion to him?

SYLVIA.
From his love.

DAPHNE.
Effect inhuman from a cause benign!

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