The gentle Maid at Length complied;
And “why is Damon hurt?” she cry’d,
“That I his Rivals see?”
“Because I dread,” [said he, “my Dear,] 10
[Thy Person] should to them appear
“As it appears to me.”—
They married, and their Love decay’d;
For then the Slattern Wife repaid
The Husband’s Scorn and Slight;
While he to other Scenes retir’d,