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380 THE POEMS OF ANNE �And let Pan and Mars agree, �That none's so kind and brave as He. [Exeunt. �ACT IV SCENE I �The General's Pavilion. Enter Drest in the Habit of an Officer Demagetus with Arcasius. �Dema. Sh' has left the Plains, and is not to be found. How cou'd'st thou bring this cruel Story to me, Ere thou had'st search'd Messenia's, utmost Bound, And travell'd o'er the spacious World of Shepherds ? She must be yet amongst their Shades conceal'd; And thro' them will I pierce, like prying Phoebus, To find my Love, or lose myself for ever. �Area. You will not hear (so much your Passion sways) The Reasons, why I chose to see you first, Ere I proceeded to pursue her Paths. 10 �Dema. There spoke the sixty Winters, that have froze �thee, �And turn'd swift eager Love to Icy Reasons. I must be Cold as thou art, if I hear thee, Or lose one moment more in doating Questions. [He's going. �Area. Behold these Tokens, and let them retard you. �Dema. Tokens of Love, sent to the fond Climander. Oh ! thou hast found a way indeed to stay me. �Area. Take that, to you directed ; [A Letter. �And 'twas my Hopes from thence of some discovery, That kept me here 'till you had broke and read it. 20 �Dema. Then thou shalt hear it. [Reads the Direction. �Tliis to Climander from theNymph that leaves him To everlasting Grief, shou'd have been added, For so 'twill prove, if no more Comfort's here. [He reads it. To love, yet from the Object fly, Harder is, than 'tis to Dye : ��� �