Excerpt from The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger: Being the Sequel of the Fool in Fashion, a Comedy; Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane The ragtng Flame of wild deiltue'tive luil: Redue' d to a warm pleaftng Fire of lawful Love, My Life glides on, and all 1s well within. Enter Amanda. Lov. Meeting How does the happy cauie o/z my Content, my dear leer kindly. Amanda. You find me muling On my happy State, And full of grateful Thoughts to Heaven, and you Thofe grateful Offerings Heaven can't receive With mme Delight than I do: Won d I cou 'd lhare with 1t as well The dieniations of its Blifs, That I might fratch its choice'lt Favours out, And Ihowet 'em on your Head for ever. Loo. The largeil: Booms that Heaven thinks fit to grant, To Things 1t has decreed {hall crawl on Earth, Ate tn the Gift of Woman form'd like you, Perhaps, when Time than be no more; When the aipiring Soul ibali take its flight, And drop this pondrous Lump of (313 It may have Appetites we know not 0 And pleaiures as refin 'd as its Del res But till that Day of Knowledge ffhall infiruel; m The utnioll: Bieli' 11g that my Thought can reach, her in his firm 3 Is folded 111 my Arms, and rooted tn my Heart. Am. There let it grow for ever Zoo. Well Iaid, Amanda - v let tthe for ever Won'd Heaven grant that Twere all the Heaven I'd ask. But we are clad in Black Mortality, and the dark Curtain OI Eternal Night, at lalt mull drop between us. Loo. It mull: that; mouthful Separation We mull: fee, A bitter Pill it is to all; but doubles its ungrateful taile, When Lovers are to {wallow Am. Perhaps, that Pain may only be my Let, You poflibly may be exempted from it Men' find out Iofter Ways to quench their Fires. Loo. Can you then doubt my coni'tancy, Amanda; You'll find' tis built upon a Iteady The Rock of Reafon now Iupports my Love, On which it frauds Io fix'd, The rudeft Hurricane of wild Der re Would like the Breath of a Ioft flumbering Babe, Pals by, and never Ihake it Am. Yet Ilill' tis Iafer to avoid the Storm, The Ilrongefl Vellels, if they put to Sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.