nine at night
* * * * * _ To _ SYLVIA . I have obey 'd my _ Sylvia _ ' . dear commands , and the dictates of my own impatient soul ; as soon as I receiv 'd them , I immediately took horse for _ Bellfont _ , though I knew I should not see my adorable _ Sylvia _ ' . ill eight or nine at night ; but oh ` tis wondrous pleasure to be so much more near my eternal joy ; I wait at _ Dorillus _ ' . cottage the tedious approaching night that must shelter me in its kind shades , and conduct me to a pleasure I faint but with imagining ; ` tis now , my lovely charmer , three o'clock , and oh how many tedious hours I am to languish here before the blessed one arrive ! I know you love , my _ Sylvia _ , and therefore must guess at some part of my torment , which yet is mix 'd with a certain trembling joy , not to be imagin 'd by any but _ Sylvia _ , who surely loves _ Philander _ ; if there be truth in beauty , faith in youth , she surely loves him much ; and much more above her sex she is capable of love , by how much more her soul is form 'd of a softer and more delicate composition ; by how much more her wit 's refin 'd and elevated above her duller sex , and by how much more she is oblig 'd ; if passion can claim passion in return , sure no beauty was ever so much indebted to a slave , as _ Sylvia _ to _ Philander _ ; none ever lov 'd like me : judge then my pains of love , my joys , my fears , my impatience and desires ; and call me to your sacred presence with all the speed of love , and as soon as it is duskish , imagine me in the meadow behind the grove , ` till when think me employed in eternal thoughts of _ Sylvia _ , restless , and talking to the trees of _ Sylvia _ , sighing her charming name , circling with folded arms my panting heart , -LRB- that beats and trembles the more , the nearer it approaches the happy _ Bellfont _ -RRB- and fortifying the feeble trembler against a sight so ravishing and surprising ; I fear to be sustain 'd with life ; but if I faint in _ Sylvia _ ' . arms , it will be happier far than all the glories of life without her .