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Pleasant and Diver live. 1 79
ADieu to the Pleasures and Follies of Love,
For a Passion more noble my fancy does move ;
My Shepherd is dead, and I live to proclaim,
In sorrowful Notes my Amyntas his Name :
The Wood-Nymphs reply when they hear me com-
plain, .
Thou never shalt see thy Amyntas again ;
For Death has befriended him,
Fate has defended him,
None, none alive is so happy a Swain.
You Shepherds & Nymphs, that have danc'd to his
lays,
Come help me to Sing forth Amyntas his Praise ;
No Swain for the Garland, durst with him dispute,
So sweet were his Notes, while he sang to his Lute :
Then come to his Grave, and your kindness pursue,
To Weave him a Garland, with Cypress and Yew ;
For Life hath forsaken him,
Death hath o'ertaken him,
No Swain again will be ever so true.
Then leave me alone to my wretched estate,
I lost him too soon, and I lov'd him too late ;
You Ecchoes, and Fountains, my witnesses prove,
How deeply I Sigh for the loss of my Love :
And now of our Pan, whom we chiefly adore,
This favour I never will cease to Implore ;
That now I may go above,
And there enjoy my Love,
Then, then I never will part with him more.
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