| Jar to either. 
Ee ‘exercifed 5 andthefe beauties being a proper rabiett of all wie te 
| that hath a property to make all Land-objects. 
in the my: 
| fancy. Befides, the place being 'extream beautiful and lovely,could not’ 
of them which they {melt to5 and finding it too ftrong for their temper, 
of tbe Ifland of Barbadoes. 
pour’d fome of it into one of their Calibafhes : And puttoit as 
much water, as would temper it totheir palatss; They drank again, 
but all this would not give them the confidenceto fpeak, butin mute 
language, and extream pretty motions, fhewed they wanted neither 
wit nor difcretion tomake an Anfwer. But it feem’d it was not the 
fafhion there for young Maids to {peak to ftrangers in fo publick a place, 
I thought I had been fufficiently arm’d with the perfections I found 
in the Padre’s Miftrefs, as to be free from the darts of any other beauty 
of that place info fhort atime; but I found the difference between 
young frefh beauties, and thofethat are made up with the addition of 
State and Majefty : for though they counfel id, perfwade our loves ; 
yet young beauties force, and fo commit tapes upon our affections. In 
his »pe- | 
| tice was more fixt on that; or elfe that bottle was better than the others 
| Otherwife, what-fhould‘move him to choofe one before the other. 
| arguments to prote@ me; the firft is, Thavein bed Hee UNE 
fumme, had ‘not my heart been fixed faftin my breaft,and dwelt there 
above fixty y ears, and therefore loth to leave its long kept habitation; 
Thad undoubtedly left it between them for a Legacy :'For fo equal 
were their beautics, and my love asit wasnot, nor could be particu- 
~ Lhave heard it a queftion dite epheknee ifa horfe, being plac’d 
at.an equal diftance between two bottles ofHey equally. good, and his 
appetite b 5 whether that horfe mutt not, 
equally. ftarve. For if hefeed on either it muft ar, 
Int this potture was with my two'Miftrefies, or rather my two halve 
of one ‘Mile 5 "feta ‘had the} boon ichied, and: fo made one die 
point of my love had met theres “but b in, 
not forked, it was impoflible to'fix but in one centre. 
“Jn this doubtfil condition I took my leave, ‘with an affurance, that’ 
I fhould never find two ‘fach parallel Paragons in my whole fearch’ 
through the world: And the reafon’ of base? o A aoe Itkenefs and rete 
was, they were Sifters and Twins, as s Lwasafierinform’d bya 
that cat Yen Ww came 128 we O diag 
not far r offfrom his Cell. | 
But you will think it ftrange’, Rete? @ man: + of my’ age and. avity 
fhould have fo muchto'do with beauty and love : But T Pe es ben 
layes ae 
much enclin’d unto painting, in which, art, co 
tions (beingin themfelves perfe&t ) I could not but confider 
with a ftudied diligence. 
“Next, Thad been long at Sea without fetting mre Land ae 
1¢ higheft degree Paramount , ‘could’ not aaa ec 
abe govern’. | 
but fecretly harbour in ithe fpirit of love,a paffion nott 
rdon my wild e 
' 
saLfU4 Cit! 
divided, cod my afedtion ) 
u y ancy: 
| But the main Sistin of of this fring o out, “is, I had little elfeto fay, gor’ | 
_| the Ifland being ’a place of very little orno Traffique, could not afford 
much of difcourfe,’Gatéle they have very good and large, whichthey | 
a And fikeiite Hotles of excelleat aster wee 
