Her triumph bury, or her pleasure hide.

And jealous Love, that ever looks to spy

The dreaded wandering of a lady’s eye,

Perceived with anguish, that the prize long sought 110

A sudden rival from his hopes had caught.

Still Villars loved; at length, in strong despair,

O’er-tortured passion thus preferr’d its prayer:—

“Life of my life! at once my fate decree—

I wait my death, or more than life, from thee.

I have no arts, nor powers, thy soul to move,