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I. Wherever I Am, And Whatever I Do, My Phyllis Is Still In My Mind; When Angry, I Mean Not To Phyllis To Go, My Feet, Of Themselves, The Way Find: Unknown To Myself I Am Just At Her Door, And When I Would Rail, I Can Bring Out No More, Than, Phyllis Too Fair And Unkind! When Phyllis I See, My Heart Bounds In My Breast, And The Love I Would Stifle Is Shown; But Asleep Or Awake I Am Never At Rest, When From My Eyes Phyllis Is Gone. Sometimes A Sad Dream Does Delude My Sad Mind; But, Alas! When I Wake, And No Phyllis I Find, How I Sigh To Myself All Alone! Should A King Be My Rival In Her I Adore, He Should Offer His Treasure In Vain: Oh, Let Me Alone To Be Happy And Poor, And Give Me My Phyllis Again! Let Phyllis Be Mine, And But Ever Be Kind, I Could To A Desert With Her Be Confined, And Envy No Monarch His Reign. Alas! I Discover Too Much Of My Love, And She Too Well Knows Her Own Power! She Makes Me Each Day A New Martyrdom Prove, And Makes Me Grow Jealous Each Hour: But Let Her Each Minute Torment My Poor Mind, I Had Rather Love Phyllis, Both False And Unkind, Than Ever Be Freed From Her Power. Ii. He. How Unhappy A Lover Am I, While I Sigh For My Phyllis In Vain: All My Hopes Of Delight Are Another Man'S Right, Who Is Happy, While I Am In Pain! She. Since Her Honour Allows No Relief, But To Pity The Pains Which You Bear, 'Tis The Best Of Your Fate, In A Hopeless Estate, To Give O'Er, And Betimes To Despair. He. I Have Tried The False Medicine In Vain; For I Wish What I Hope Not To Win: From Without, My Desire Has No Food To Its Fire; But It Burns And Consumes Me Within. She. Yet, At Least, 'Tis A Pleasure To Know That You Are Not Unhappy Alone: For The Nymph You Adore Is As Wretched, And More; And Counts All Your Sufferings Her Own. He. O Ye Gods, Let Me Suffer For Both; At The Feet Of My Phyllis I'll Lie: I'll Resign Up My Breath, And Take Pleasure In Death, To Be Pitied By Her When I Die. She. What Her Honour Denied You In Life, In Her Death She Will Give To Your Love. Such A Flame As Is True After Fate Will Renew, For The Souls To Meet Closer Above.