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,