These beauties catch; they set my heart on fire;

Her farm, her flocks, are all I do admire:

Her darts are powerful, of a yellowish hue,

More fierce than those the fam’d Alcides threw.

Her striking beauty in full bloom appears,

At the dull period of full fifty years:

Then Delia will no admiration claim,

But dear Lucretia ever is the same.

DAMON.

For this you love her; now I truly find,