Your Eyes at first an easie Conquest gain’d,

Which since they have but too too well maintain’d.

Your Name each Hour I constantly repeat;

But what’s (alas!) the Comfort which I meet?

Nought but my wretched Fate’s too true Advice,

Which whispers to me in such Words as these:

Ah! Mariane, why do’st hope in vain

To see thy lovely Fugitive again?

The dear, false, cruel Man ’s for ever gone,

And thou, unhappy thou! art left alone: