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A true and exact copy of some passionate letters and verses as they were writ and sent by a person of quality to the Lady --.
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1692
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such a Love as I beg of you to aske Sweet Whether it were not a crime to part them If you will let her be the Priest she shall at our next meeting pronounce them inseparable and then should my journey prove my death I shall have all the satisfactions that being parted from you can admit and if there be such a thing in the next State as retaining our least sentiments here they will have Purity and Innocence enough to be my Companions there Adieu Sweet as the Breezes Eastern Winds convey As breath of Cows or Rose at break of Day She breaths a Wit as sweet as Flowers to Sense And o'er my Soul she hath such influence That when but near me in a Thought she 's come My Breast for nothing else can find a room Did you know fine Asteria you would say She 's gently Great Obliging Sweet and Gay Converse finds there its first and chief Delight The Splendor of the Day and Pleasure of the Night 'T was there I left my Soul and found her Mind The Wonder yet the Pleasure of Mankind Farwel all Joys except she will allow I come to beg and fetch them from her Brow Ah! there I 'de kneel and pray I might express The Beauties and the cause of Happiness But she well knows they 're to her self confin'd There bounteous Nature all her strength combin'd To make the finest Body noblest Mind III. SInce all the content of my Life depends upon giving you these reiterated assurances of my Passion you must finest Mithridatia forgive me if I seize upon all opportunities to tell you I am now arriv'd to that degree that living and loving you is one and the same thing and that nothing but the expiration of the one can be the destruction of the other the loss of your Favour will make me miserable in excess but the end of my passion depends upon nothing but death too violent a remedy for any thing but the dreadful misfortune of your unkindness not so gastly if I know my Heart as to make me rather bear that burthen than shun it but if you will incourage me to throw away these melancholy Reflections and make me desire to preserve my life for your service Accept of that Love which properly makes a Life and which under the severest dispensations shall be pleasant to me with your kindness the greatest Blessing I beg of this side Heaven and of Heaven I beg it Since the Reverence and Respect I will use so great a Blessing with shall be such as Angels shall not think Criminal my desires have been regulated by that Virtue which makes my Passion such My Friendship shall be Just and Constant my Fidelity shall be as uncorrupted as the sweet Mithridatia I adore and the Admiration I have for you shall be so particular as excluding all possibility of other Temptations My Love shall Saint us confirm this Passion of no common Nature by all the Holy Obligations that such things can admit Let our Vows our Promises make as firm a Contract as Love can tye and if I pursue you not all the days of my life with such uncessant peals of kindness as to Mankind is now a stranger make me the unhappiest of Men for I am content you have this Reserve of banishing and ruining me the moment I digress from what I say you need not tell me of what any Mortal would dread but I never presume to trouble you with that Did your confidence in me bear an equal sway I scarce know what could hinder you from preferring my Love before that of other Men nay all the World since nothing in it ever lov'd a Woman more or more submissively the uncertainty of telling you this and the care I must always take to preserve the niceties of your Reputation before my own Happiness make me decline the Blessing of being near you to give you these more distant Discoveries I shall not expect you should be under so great inconveniencies in this place to make me returns of the same nature but I must and do upon my knees beseech you to make your Eyes and Tongue the messengers of my Happiness you shall with your permission receive when I can make an answer to them this way for God above knows I had rather spend my time in this or in the pleasure of your converse than in all that my ambition or wishes can aspire to Adieu forgive me this Callimicles IV. I Come sweetest Delia upon so sad an Errand as will require both your Generosity and Compassion to extenuate the misfortunes that attend it 'T is Madam to take my leave of you and by that Word and Action of Parting to tell you I am as unhappy as a Man divested of all he can call or think satisfaction can be supposed to be 't is true the great part of my Life looks like a continued parting but distance is a great aggravation of absence and I am more unfortunate as the space is greater between me and that which alone can allay the troubles of my Life or add to its content The truth of this Madam is as great as that I have a Being and fixed upon my Soul in such indelible Characters that to live and have respect for you above the rest of the World is one and the same thing Give me dearest Madam the delight to know you desire it should be so and it shall not be in the power of any thing Humane to make it otherwise This Passion implanted by all the irrefragable Arguments of Reason and Inclination shall pursue you and your Interest in all the shapes of friendship Gratitude and Service shall pay you all those Duties the censorious World admits in acquaintance and all those which Reverence and Fidelity impose upon one tyed by Vows and Love if this condition charming Delia presents its self agreeably enough to obtain your Opinion of its being a Happiness desirable scruple not to let me know it 't will be the only companion I wish in my journey a permission to entertain my self with an assurance you will instate me in so great a Bliss will be all I now desire Oh my admired Delia make me as irresistibly yours by Obligation as I am inevitably so by Passion not that I can wish more reasons to be so than I have but that I would not have you want one to conclude me so I hope you will forgive me if I am now more importunate than ordinarily in petitioning your Favour and that I presume to give you this Note at this time 't is to beg of you and I do it this moment upon my Knees that you will add something this Afternoon to what I know you design me that may convince me of my being in your Favour let me in plain words without a dash receive some such expression as you do not usually part with in return I will present you with Services shall be legible enough for you to understand no Mortal was
shall have a Life spent in your service the expiration of which shall only end it but I must now leave this and tell you I am again incouraged to go to London and there being some things which are the common intercourses of acquaintance as such disdain not to know you must command your faithful Pol. Ah Delia this is business He hates to mention any thing in love but what the nicest Thought of Delia may allow from the Humble and Passionate Pol. Who has not a Iess solid tho' a differnt foundation who has Indies tho' not Golden ones to offer Empires tho' not so gross as Interest and Ambition lives upon Ah Delia Heaven and the Powers above of which the Mind of Man is a Type confirm what I say to you for Truth and shew you the vast difference betwixt the lasting power of Merit and the short dominion of Design but whether am I falling let some prosperous Gale direct my Passion into Delia's Breast sweet safe and happy Harbor let me there unload all that Love Fidelity Religion and Honour ever made binding and let Delia take choice of all I have to offer nay she must refuse none it being the gift of Heaven as well as mine well Adieu all the Blessings of Heaven descend upon you quiet Hours soft Dreams and steady Friends be your Portion and let me beg you to believe none so much so as your unfortunate Lover Polierchus XXI SInce all the ambition of my Life receiv'd its Original from and hath its termination in finest Methridatia How pardonable is it I complain of the unjust diminution you make of that Merit which gave my Passion its Being and is the happy assurance of its duration it is of the highest concern possible to me to oblige you to believe that I think you what you are but 't is very strange you 'll not own what you know you are 't is yet some satisfaction to see what Arguments you are forced to support your diffidence withal either to resolve I must be ignorant of what I make appear I know or to disown your own knowledge rather than believe what I vow to be true Charming Methridatia be not any longer injurious to so many attractions as make all can be paid your due nor to that Love which besides being its own destruction would in its Falsity be my Infamy and misfortune But consider had you not upon a long Contemplation been preferible to me before all the World you had not been my choice and had you not been that my Passion had been impossible now my Reason is its companion and being determined by a Power which can confer what the nature of Reason and Love can desire there can be no greater assurance of its continuance than your Favour give me that dearest Madam and believe me Just and it shall not be in the power of Second Causes to violate in our Case that Order which Nature in other things is so careful to preserve my Happiness shall depend upon my Love that upon my Vows they upon my Reason and all upon Methridatia's Merit as the Spring the only sweet Fountain from whence to derive upon passionate Call the pleasant moments of his Life Call not this Folly Madam nor think it so easily alterable at your own or any other bodies pleasure for had you an equal Obligation both from your Judgment and your Inclination to value Call before any thing else you would not know where to look for either Power or Will to resist the sweet violence of a particularity But because this Case is not like to arrive from the inequality you will always find betwixt your self and others yet must you not by this Rule judge them especially poor Call whos 's unhappy defects make his pretences to any right in your kindness impossible but yet cannot stop the tide of that Ambition which riseth as far as Admiration and Respect will admit I cannot give you a greater Instance of both than when I tell you that nothing hath been more my wish and desire than your being satisfied to allay the terror of Absence with this kind of Converse but since you say 't is troublesom and I cannot be obliged but at the expence of being disagreeable I will endeavour to moderate the heat of those impatiencies which yet I cannot so regulate as not to wish for a Note to day But pardon me if I err in the moment I pretend to repent and indeed I fear your own Declaration looks too like a Civil notice that mine are too frequent and too long yet I cannot forbear saying that if I have any Sence you designed my making use of it when you tell me if your observation fail not the heat will be over by that time you return Oh Methridatia it had all the Cruelty imaginable in it to answer for one and pardon me if I say all the disobligation and injustice possible to include the other it carrying with it all that can conclude me miserable or infamous No Madam I have not built my Passion upon the hopes of Happiness it had misfortune in prospect but it lookt not grim enough to divert me more from loving you to come in that State then it did long ago under a suffering Silence you cannot therefore be free from my Respect however I may be divested of your Favour which yet I will prosecute with a life so spent in your Service as shall make you wish I had more Merit to have been made more Happy Adieu I never found seeing my Love one day Could the Delights to morrow brings allay Each day produces various Joys And Pleasure doth consit in Choice Why then should this Converse which must supply The Powers of Sence meet a worse destiny It ceases to be Love or Joy when we Cease wishing them Eternity Down Rebel Fear the Just Asteria The pleasant Charming Methridatia The fine the sweet the generous Delia Will not refuse the Duty that I pay Because 't was humbly paid them yesterday Absence that preys on Thought when this Relief Cannot be had turnâ— all to Fear and Grief Now Love and Hope at work Command in Chief By these two Messengers be pleas'd to know That Streams do not more naturally flow To their dear Ocean then my Soul to you That Sweets from Flowers persum'd Gums from Tree That Virgin Honey from the â—â—den Bee Are not so sweet as one kind Look from D. XXII IT is not my charming Delia without a mixture of all those apprehensions which make up the greatest Concern that I ever now receive the Honour of a Letter the Joy to see it and the fear to find in it any thing ruinous to my Love are always endeavouring to supplant one another and truly I cannot but say I found enough couched under a serious and grave stile to set my Fears on work for dear Delia should it proceed from a diffidence of my Love as sure thus many years has convinced you I can