When fair Aminta, studious still of ways

To have her wish, again to Alice came,

To give dear Cleon notice of her flame.

My home, cried she, 'tis requisite I leave:

To ruin me, your cousin, I perceive,

Is still resolved, for presents now he sends;

But he mistakes, and blindly wealth expends;

I'm clearly not the woman he suspects:

See here, what jewels rare to please the sex!

Nice rubies, diamonds too, but what is more,