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ACT the FIFTH. SCENE the FIRST.
DOUBTLESS the Law, whereby Love eternally governs his Empire, is neither hard nor unjust; and Men wrongfully con∣demn those Works of his, which are full of Providence, and Mystery. O! with what Art, and by what unknown Paths, he con∣ducts a Man to Happiness, and places him amidst the Joys of his amorous Paradise, when he thinks himself at the lowest Pitch of Misery. Behold, Aminta by his fall ascends to the Top, and Summit of all De∣light. O Fortunate Aminta! by so much the more Happy now, as you was Miserable before. Now your Example gives me also Hopes, that some time or other, the Cruel Fair one, who, under a friendly Smile,