What 'tis to fight, or how to face a foe;

Yet in Love's field what wonders can he do!

90Great is his prowess and his fortune too;

Let them go fight, who know not how to woo.

Now I must own, I fear'd to let thee go,

My trembling lips had almost told thee so.

When from thy father's house thou didst withdraw,

Thy fatal stumble at the door I saw,

I saw it, sigh'd, and pray'd the sign might be

Of thy return a happy prophecy!