'Twas LOVE, fond LOVE! replied the beauteous belle;

And straight a blush her lovely cheek suffused,

So rare with those to Cyprian revels used;

For Venus's vot'ries, to pranks resigned,

Another way, to get a colour, find.

CAMILLUS, truly, some suspicions had,

That he was loved, though neither fool nor mad;

Nor such a novice in the Paphian scene,

But what he could at once some notions glean:

More certain tokens, howsoe'er, to get,