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The impatient Silvia heard thus long;
Then with a smile replied: 30
Those bands could ne'er be very strong
Which accidents' divide.
In ancient history we meet
A flying nymph betray'd,
Who had she kept in fruitful Crete,
New conquests might have made.
And sure, as on the beech she stood.
To view the parting sails;
She curs'd herself, more than the flood
Or the conspiring gales.40
False Theseus, since thy vows are broke,
May following nymphs beware;
(Methinks I hear how thus she spoke,
Who will not trust too far)
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