Afford to me, without I love him too?

Why shou’d his Am’rous Passion more incline

To move my Heart, than yours was mov’d by mine?

And I perceive by what I now endure,

That the first Wounds of Love admits no Cure;

All sorts of Remedies then prove in vain,

W’ are ne’er recover’d to our selves again;

So fixt, and so immutable is Fate,

We ’re doomed to Love, though w’ are repaid with Hate.

I ’m sure I cou’d not so hard-hearted be,