I'll lay me down and weep._


VI.

_All worldly Joys I bid adieu,
All Pleasures I forsake;
SEMPRONIUS still I'll sleep with you;
I'll with the Touth awake._

_Amaryllis_ did not long continue her Resolution of going into the
Country, fearing an invincible Despair would ensue; and upon advising
with a Bosom Friend, she was disuaded from it: Her Intimate thought it
might be a Diversion to her Melancholly to repair to some popular City,
where a variety of Conversation and airy Entertainments, might, if
possible, eraze the Memory of her deceas'd Lover. Accordingly
_Amaryllis_ immediately set out for _Ferara_, where she had been but an
inconsiderable Time, before she accidentally fell into the Company of
_Theodora_, whose Disappointment, already related, was little inferior
to hers, and both repeating their Stories, they found so near a
Resemblance in their Misfortunes, that they resolv'd to live together as
Sisters or inseperable Companions, and to use their utmost Artifices for
the Relief of each other. I have been led into this seeming Romance, to
shew particularly the fatal Disappointments attending these two
beautiful Females, which were very extraordinary, especially those of
the Latter; and to shew, in a particular manner, how these two Ladies
first became acquainted, as an Introduction to what follows. I come now
to their Female Intrigues, which were no less uncommon than their
Misfortunes.