, if you scorn to hear what I advise,
Let great Examples teach you to be wise.
Lovers are not so out of Fashion here,
That  blushes to appear:
As fam'd a Pair adorns this Isle and Age,
As ever could each other's Heart engage;
Endow'd with ev'ry Grace of Form and Mind,
To raise the Love and Wonder of Mankind:
Tho' bless'd with ev'ry Gift to merit Fame,
Their highest Glory is their mutual Flame:
A Flame, like that my tender Bosom fir'd;
But rul'd by Reason, and by Heav'n inspir'd:
Their Love like mine, but diff'rent far their Fate;
As happy they, as I unfortunate.
But my Distress had never reach'd the Stage,
Had Heav'n reserv'd me to the present Age:
None would have dar'd my Fondness to abuse,
Had I from beauteous  learnt to chuse;
Nor I my Heart on rash  set,
Had I, like her, but known a .