The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume VI

Having said all this with an Air of Disdain, I, smiling, took my leave, with much less Civility and Respect than I used to do: and hasting to _Intelligence_, I past my time very...

After I have told you this, you may guess at a great part of my Story; which, in short, is this: I would needs make a Voyage, as you did, to this fortunate Isle, and accompanyed...

Let Love no more your Heart inspire, Thô Beauty every hour you see; Pass no farther than desire, If you’ll truly happy be. Every day fresh Objects view, And for all have Complis...

_Oh! how at ease my Heart would live,_ _Could I renounce this Fugitive;_ _This dear, but false, attracting Maid,_ _That has her Vows and Faith betray’d!_ _Reason would have it s...

I Will believe, _Damon_, that you have been so well entertained during this Hour, and have found so much Sweetness in these Thoughts, that if one did not tell you that Supper wa...

But, _Damon_, I know all Lovers are naturally Flatterers, tho’ they do not think so themselves; because every one makes a Sense of Beauty according to his own Fancy. But perhaps...

But see the Nymphs and dancing swains Ascend the Hill from yonder Plains, With Wreathes and Garlands finely made, To crown the lovely Bride and Bridegrooms head, And I amongst t...

p. 7 _two Orinda’s_. ‘The matchless Orinda’ was Mrs. Katherine Philips (_née_ Fowler), précieuse and poetess (1631-64). After marriage the lady divided her time between London a...

This sort of Creature, _Damon_, is very dangerous; not that I fear you will squander away a Heart upon her, but your Hours; for in spight of you, she’ll detain you with a thousa...

One day the Amorous _Lysander_ By an impatient Passion sway’d, Surpriz’d fair _Cloris_, that lov’d Maid, Who could defend her self no longer. All things did with his Love conspi...

Farewell the Great, the Brave and Good, By all admir’d and understood; For all thy vertues so extensive are, Writ in so noble and so plain a Character, That they instruct humani...

Mr. G. Thorn Drury has drawn my attention to the fact that the original of Mrs. Behn’s _The Disappointment_, entitled _Sur une Impuissance_ is to be found in _Recueil de Diverse...

While I was thus perplext betwixt these two violent passions, when no reason cou’d resolve me which to choose, as I was one day meditating what to do in this extremity, a Woman...

_Olives are never fading seen;_ _But always flourishing, and green._ _The Emblem ‘tis of Love and Peace;_ } _For Love that’s true, will never cease:_ } _And Peace does Pleasure...

_La Môntre: or, The Lover’s Watch_, ‘Licensed 2 Aug. 1686. R.L.S.’ is taken by Mrs. Behn from _La Môntre_ of Balthazar de Bonnecorse. After having received an excellent educatio...

Every Hour is tedious to a Lover separated from his Mistress: and to shew you how good I am, I will have my _Watch_ instruct you, to pass some of them without Inquietude; that t...

With him _Philander_, who nere paid A Sigh or Tear to any Maid: So innocent and young he is, He cannot guess what Passion is. But all the Love he ever knew, On _Lycidas_ he does...

Not of the _Shepherds_, nor their Rural _Loves_. The Song was Glorious tho ‘twas sung in Groves! _Camilla’s_ Death the skilful _Youth_ inspir’d, As if th’ Heroic _Maid_ his Soul...

Who should one celibrate with Verse and Song, but the Great, the Noble and the Brave? where dedicate an _Isle of Love_, but to the Gay, the Soft and Young? and who amongst Men c...

p. 390 _Gildon’s Chorus Poetarum._ ‘Adequately to translate Sappho’ says J. A. Symonds in _The Greek Poets_ ‘was beyond the power of even Catullus: that love-ode, which Longinus...

The Youth a Noble temper bears, Soft and compassionate, And thou canst only blame thy Stars, That made thee love too late; Yet had their Influence all been kind They had not cro...

Wretched _OEnone’s_ inauspicious fate, That she was born so soon, or her blest Muse so late! Cou’d the poor Virgin have like her complain’d, She soon her perjur’d Lover had rega...

I know you, and I must confess From Sence so Celebrated, and so True, _Wit_ so Uncommon, and so New, As that which alwaies shines in You; I cou’d expect no less. ‘Tis _Great_, ‘...

At my approach new Fires my Bosom warm; New vigor I receive from every Charm: I found invention with my Love increase; And both instruct me with new Arts to please; New Gallantr...

Thus fill’d the neighbouring Eccho’s with my Cry, Did nothing but reproach, complain and dye: One day---- All hopeless on the Rivers Brink I stood, Resolv’d to plunge into the R...

Twelve times the _Moon_ has borrow’d Rays; that Night Might favour Lovers stealths by Glimmering Light: Since I imbarqu’d on the inconstant Seas With people of all Ages and Degr...

To thee, dear _Paris_, Lord of my Desires, Once tender Partner of my softest Fires; To thee I write, mine, while a Shepherd’s Swain, But now a Prince, that Title you disdain. Oh...

Dryden, John i xxx, xli, xlv, lii, 219, 335, 443, 444, 449; ii 198, 433, 435; iii 491, 496; iv 8, 220, 223, 412, 413, 414, 421; v 515, 523; vi 400, 435

Restless and wild, ranging each Field and Grove; I meet the Author of my painful Love; But still surrounded with a numerous Train Of Lovers, whom _Love_ taught to Sigh and Fawn,...

_Shepherd_, you urge my Love in vain, For I can ne’er Reward your pain; _A Slave_ each Smile of mine can win, And all my softning Darts, When e’er I please, can bring me in A Th...

_Scarce the prying Beams of Light,_ _Or th’ impatient God of Day,_ _Are allow’d so near a Sight,_ _Or dare profane her with a Ray;_ _When she has appear’d to me,_ _Like_ Venus _...

_A thousand gloomy Walks the Bower contains,_ _Sacred all to mighty Love;_ _A thousand winding turns where Pleasure reigns;_ _Obscur’d from day by twining Boughs above,_ _Where_...