While Cupid, unattended, in shall climb,

Obtain possession perfectly at ease,

And grant conditions just as he shall please.

I NOW propose to give a fav'rite tale:—

The god of Love was never known to fail,

In finding stratagems, as I have read,

And many have I seen most nicely spread.

THE young Aminta was Gerontes' wife,

With whom she lived, it seems, a wretched life.

Far better she deserved than what she had,