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'Try all the pleasures of the Silver stream, 

 ' With Sails Expanded, danger Car from them 

 ' In all appearance, while they joyful play, 

 < And silent hours decoy the time away. 

 ' Puft with conceit, they'd see the Nymphs below, 

 ' And how the Gods keep't Court in Caves, and so 

 ' Down to the bottom nimbly dive, and then 

 ' Rise and disport themselves with Joys again: 

 ' While in my tender Breast paternal fears arose, 

 'That sudden Joys have direful ends, which to 



oppose 



' 1 loudly call, and bid bold Hornet stay, 

 'While he forgetful, with the stream kept way, 



* And quickly sports his precious life away. 



' Two streams there be, from several parts that 



come, 



'Then with united forces joyn in one; 

 ' Under a broad and spreading Tree, 

 'Tree alas, and here begins my misery, 

 'For like some Pirate in a hollow clif, 



* That waits the careless Merchant when a drift, 

 ' And with full Sails makes to the longed shore, 

 'There to unlade, or else to freight him more; 



* Steps boldly forth, and with a fierce surprise 

 ' Makes the full Vessel then his lawless prize, 

 ' So unobserved, by the shady tree 



' Some Chubs expecting lay, a prize to see, 



F3 'While 



